The intima-media thickness (IMT) of the carotid artery is commonly used for monitoring atherosclerosis. However, the intima-media complex (IMC) segmentation for the IMT calculation is a tedious task due to confused IMC boundaries and class-imbalance issues. In this paper, we propose an automatic method named CSM-Net for the joint segmentation of IMC on near and far walls, and Lumen in carotid ultrasound images. In the encoder-decoder CSM-Net, firstly, the cascaded dilated convolutions combined with the squeeze-excitation module are introduced for exploiting more contextual features on the last encoder layer. Secondly, a multi-scale triple spatial attention module is utilized for capturing serviceable features on each decoder layer. Lastly, a weighted hybrid loss function is employed to resolve the class-imbalance issue. Experiments are performed on a private dataset of 100 images from one center using the 10-fold cross-validation, the results of the proposed method on the IMC Dice, Lumen Dice, Precision, Recall, and F1 metrics are 0.814 +/- 0.061, 0.941 +/- 0.024, 0.911 +/- 0.044, 0.916 +/- 0.039, and 0.913 +/- 0.027, respectively, which precede some cutting-edge methods. The proposed method may be useful for the IMC segmentation of carotid ultrasound images in the clinic.
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Beijing Natural Science Foundation [Z200024]; University Synergy Innovation Program of Anhui Province [GXXT-2019-044]
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外文
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第一作者机构:[1]Beihang Univ, Sch Biol Sci & Med Engn, Beijing, Peoples R China
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推荐引用方式(GB/T 7714):
Yuan Yanchao,Li Cancheng,Xu Lu,et al.Joint Segmentation of Intima-Media Complex and Lumen in Carotid Ultrasound Images[J].2022 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON BIOINFORMATICS AND BIOMEDICINE, BIBM.2022,1796-1799.doi:10.1109/BIBM55620.2022.9995424.
APA:
Yuan, Yanchao,Li, Cancheng,Xu, Lu,Zhu, Shangming,Hua, Yang&Zhang, Jicong.(2022).Joint Segmentation of Intima-Media Complex and Lumen in Carotid Ultrasound Images.2022 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON BIOINFORMATICS AND BIOMEDICINE, BIBM,,
MLA:
Yuan, Yanchao,et al."Joint Segmentation of Intima-Media Complex and Lumen in Carotid Ultrasound Images".2022 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON BIOINFORMATICS AND BIOMEDICINE, BIBM .(2022):1796-1799