Cranial Implant Prediction by Learning an Ensemble of Slice-Based Skull Completion Networks

Autor: Ke Fang, Bokai Yang, Xingyu Li
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Towards the Automatization of Cranial Implant Design in Cranioplasty II ISBN: 9783030926519
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-92652-6_8
Popis: The development of automatic skull reconstruction methods has dramatically reduced the time and expense to repair skull defects. In this study, an ensemble-learning-based method is proposed for skull implant prediction. To overcome the potential overfit problem in 3-D volume analysis using deep learning, a set of 2-D defective skull images is generated by slicing 3-D volumes along the X, Y, and Z axes. We further introduce an RNN model in this method to compensate for the loss of global skull information in the 2-D implant prediction. Over the implant estimation problem in Task 1 of the AutoImplant 2021 challenge, we observe a considerable performance boost from our averaging ensemble strategy and noise removal filtering. The codes for our method as well as our pretrained models is accessible with https://github.com/YouJianFengXue/Cranial-implant-prediction-by-learning-an-ensemble-of-slice-based-skull-completion-networks.
Databáze: OpenAIRE