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Abstract #4895

Iterative Refinement of Expert Contours for Improved Ground-truth Quality in Intracranial Vessel Segmentation Neural Network Training

Hanyue Zhou1,2, Jiayu Xiao2, Dan Ruan1,3, and Zhaoyang Fan2,4,5
1Bioengineering, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, 2Radiology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, 3Radiation Oncology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, 4Radiation Oncology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, 5Biomedical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Synopsis

With a typical slice-by-slice labeling fashion, the manual contouring process is subject to large intra-observer variation, especially for small-sized intracranial arteries. We propose an iterative refinement approach for ground truth contours with the help of deep neural networks for intracranial lumen and vessel wall segmentations. We demonstrate that the approach improved the smoothness of the predicted contours and feature quantification, which can potentially boost the robustness of a neural network as a consequence of the reduced uncertainty in expert labels.

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