D-net: Siamese Based Network for Arbitrarily Oriented Volume Alignment

Autor: Jian-Qing Zheng, Bartlomiej W. Papiez, Ngee Han Lim
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Shape in Medical Imaging ISBN: 9783030610555
ShapeMI@MICCAI
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-61056-2_6
Popis: Alignment of contrast and non contrast-enhanced imaging is essential for quantification of changes in several biomedical applications. In particular, the extraction of cartilage shape from contrast-enhanced Computed Tomography (CT) of tibiae requires accurate alignment of the bone, currently performed manually. Existing deep learning-based methods for alignment require a common template or are limited in rotation range. Therefore, we present a novel network, D-net, to estimate arbitrary rotation and translation between 3D CT scans that additionally does not require a prior template. D-net is an extension to the branched Siamese encoder-decoder structure connected by new mutual, non-local links, which efficiently capture long-range connections of similar features between two branches. The 3D supervised network is trained and validated using preclinical CT scans of mouse tibiae with and without contrast enhancement in cartilage. The presented results show a significant improvement in the estimation of CT alignment, outperforming the current comparable methods.
Databáze: OpenAIRE