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ArticleiScience2023

A general approach for automatic segmentation of pneumonia, pulmonary nodule, and tuberculosis in CT images.

Lu Wang, He Zhou, Nan Xu, Yuchan Liu, Xiran Jiang, Shu Li, Chaolu Feng, Hainan Xu, Kexue Deng, Jiangdian Song

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Lu WangDepartment of Library, Shengjing Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, Liaoning 110004, China.
He ZhouSchool of Health Management, China Medical University, Shenyang, Liaoning 110122, China.
Nan XuSchool of Health Management, China Medical University, Shenyang, Liaoning 110122, China.
Yuchan LiuDepartment of Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, USTC Hefei, Anhui 230036, China.
Xiran JiangSchool of Intelligent Medicine, China Medical University, Shenyang, Liaoning 110122, China.
Shu LiSchool of Health Management, China Medical University, Shenyang, Liaoning 110122, China.
Chaolu FengKey Laboratory of Intelligent Computing in Medical Image (MIIC), Ministry of Education, Shenyang, Liaoning 110169, China.
Hainan XuDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Pelvic Floor Disease Diagnosis and Treatment Center, Shengjing Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, Liaoning 110004, China.
Kexue DengDepartment of Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, USTC Hefei, Anhui 230036, China.
Jiangdian SongSchool of Health Management, China Medical University, Shenyang, Liaoning 110122, China.

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Abstract

Proposing a general segmentation approach for lung lesions, including pulmonary nodules, pneumonia, and tuberculosis, in CT images will improve efficiency in radiology. However, the performance of generative adversarial networks is hampered by the limited availability of annotated samples and the catastrophic forgetting of the discriminator, whereas the universality of traditional morphology-based methods is insufficient for segmenting diverse lung lesions. A cascaded dual-attention network with a context-aware pyramid feature extraction module was designed to address these challenges. A self-supervised rotation loss was designed to mitigate discriminator forgetting. The proposed model achieved Dice coefficients of 70.92, 73.55, and 68.52% on multi-center pneumonia, lung nodule, and tuberculosis test datasets, respectively. No significant decrease in accuracy was observed (p > 0.10) when a small training sample size was used. The cyclic training of the discriminator was reduced with self-supervised rotation loss (p < 0.01). The proposed approach is promising for segmenting multiple lung lesion types in CT images.

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Biocomputational methodClinical microbiologyMedical imaging

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