机构:[1]School of Biological Science and Medical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, China[2]Hefei Innovation Research Institute, Beihang University, Hefei, China[3]Beijing Advanced Innovation Centre for Biomedical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, China[4]Department of Vascular Ultrasonography, XuanWu Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China医技科室血管超声科首都医科大学宣武医院[5]Beijing Diagnostic Center of Vascular Ultrasound, Beijing, China[6]Center of Vascular Ultrasonography, Beijing Institute of Brain Disorders, Collaborative Innovation Center for Brain Disorders, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
The intima-media thickness (IMT) is an effective biomarker for atherosclerosis, which is commonly measured by ultrasound technique. However, the intima-media complex (IMC) segmentation for the IMT is challenging due to confused IMC boundaries and various noises. In this paper, we propose a flexible method CSM-Net for the joint segmentation of IMC and Lumen in carotid ultrasound images. Firstly, the cascaded dilated convolutions combined with the squeeze-excitation module are introduced for exploiting more contextual features on the highestlevel layer of the encoder. Furthermore, a triple spatial attention module is utilized for emphasizing serviceable features on each decoder layer. Besides, a multi-scale weighted hybrid loss function is employed to resolve the class-imbalance issues. The experiments are conducted on a private dataset of 100 images for IMC and Lumen segmentation, as well as on two public datasets of 1600 images for IMC segmentation. For the private dataset, our method obtain the IMC Dice, Lumen Dice, Precision, Recall, and F1 score of 0.814 +/- 0.061, 0.941 +/- 0.024, 0.911 +/- 0.044, 0.916 +/- 0.039, and 0.913 +/- 0.027, respectively. For the public datasets, we obtain the IMC Dice, Precision, Recall, and F1 score of 0.885 +/- 0.067, 0.885 +/- 0.070, 0.894 +/- 0.089, and 0.885 +/- 0.067, respectively. The results demonstrate that the proposed method precedes some cutting-edge methods, and the ablation experiments show the validity of each module. The proposed method may be useful for the IMC segmentation of carotid ultrasound images in the clinic. Our code is publicly available at https://github.com/yuanyc798/US -IMC-code.
基金:
Beijing Natural Science Foundation; University Synergy Innovation Program of Anhui Province; [Z200024]; [GXXT-2019-044]
第一作者机构:[1]School of Biological Science and Medical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, China[2]Hefei Innovation Research Institute, Beihang University, Hefei, China[3]Beijing Advanced Innovation Centre for Biomedical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, China
通讯作者:
通讯机构:[1]School of Biological Science and Medical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, China[2]Hefei Innovation Research Institute, Beihang University, Hefei, China[3]Beijing Advanced Innovation Centre for Biomedical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, China[4]Department of Vascular Ultrasonography, XuanWu Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China[5]Beijing Diagnostic Center of Vascular Ultrasound, Beijing, China[6]Center of Vascular Ultrasonography, Beijing Institute of Brain Disorders, Collaborative Innovation Center for Brain Disorders, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China[*1]School of Biological Science and Medical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, China[*2]Department of Vascular Ultrasonography, XuanWu Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.
推荐引用方式(GB/T 7714):
Yuan Yanchao,Li Cancheng,Xu Lu,et al.CSM-Net: Automatic joint segmentation of intima-media complex and lumen in carotid artery ultrasound images[J].COMPUTERS IN BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE.2022,150:doi:10.1016/j.compbiomed.2022.106119.
APA:
Yuan, Yanchao,Li, Cancheng,Xu, Lu,Zhu, Shangming,Hua, Yang&Zhang, Jicong.(2022).CSM-Net: Automatic joint segmentation of intima-media complex and lumen in carotid artery ultrasound images.COMPUTERS IN BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE,150,
MLA:
Yuan, Yanchao,et al."CSM-Net: Automatic joint segmentation of intima-media complex and lumen in carotid artery ultrasound images".COMPUTERS IN BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE 150.(2022)