Recurrent U-net for automatic pelvic floor muscle segmentation on 3D ultrasound

Autor:	Noort, Frieda van den, Sirmacek, Beril, Slump, Cornelis H.
Rok vydání:	2021
Předmět:	Electrical Engineering and Systems Science - Image and Video Processing Computer Science - Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Computer Science - Machine Learning
Druh dokumentu:	Working Paper
Popis:	The prevalance of pelvic floor problems is high within the female population. Transperineal ultrasound (TPUS) is the main imaging modality used to investigate these problems. Automating the analysis of TPUS data will help in growing our understanding of pelvic floor related problems. In this study we present a U-net like neural network with some convolutional long short term memory (CLSTM) layers to automate the 3D segmentation of the levator ani muscle (LAM) in TPUS volumes. The CLSTM layers are added to preserve the inter-slice 3D information. We reach human level performance on this segmentation task. Therefore, we conclude that we successfully automated the segmentation of the LAM on 3D TPUS data. This paves the way towards automatic in-vivo analysis of the LAM mechanics in the context of large study populations.
Databáze:	arXiv
Externí odkaz:	http://arxiv.org/abs/2107.13833 Zobrazit plný text záznamu View this record from Arxiv