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Abstract #2163

Protocol adaptive Stacked transfer learning (STL) U-NET with small dataset training for soft tissue segmentation in dynamic speech MRI

Subin Erattakulangara1, Karthika Kelat1, and Sajan Goud Lingala1,2
1Roy J Carver Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Iowa, Iowa city, IA, United States, 2Department of Radiology, University of Iowa, Iowa city, IA, United States

Synopsis

We develop a protocol adaptive Stacked transfer learning (STL) U-NET for soft tissue segmentation in dynamic speech MRI. Our approach leverages knowledge from large open-source datasets, and only needs to be trained on small number of protocol specific images (of the order of 20 images). We demonstrate the utility of STL U-NET in efficiently segmenting soft-tissue articulators from three different protocols with different field strengths, vendors, acquisition, reconstruction. Using the DICE similarity metric, we demonstrate segmentation accuracies with our approach to be at the level of manual segmentation.

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