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Abstract #0816

Sparse Annotation Deep Learning for Prostate Segmentation of Volumetric Magnetic Resonance Images

Yousuf Babiker M. Osman1,2, Cheng Li1,3, Weijian Huang1,2,4, Nazik Elsayed1,2,5, Zhenzhen Xue1,3, Hairong Zheng1, and Shanshan Wang1,3,4
1Paul C. Lauterbur Research Center for Biomedical Imaging, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, China, 2University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, 3Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence in Medical Image Analysis and Application, Guangzhou, China, 4Peng Cheng Laboratory, Shenzhen, China, 5Faculty of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, University of Gezira, Wad Madani, Sudan

Synopsis

Keywords: Segmentation, ProstateDeep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved unprecedented performances in various medical image segmentation tasks. Nevertheless, DNN training requires a large amount of densely labeled data, which are labor-intensive and time-consuming to obtain. Here, we address the task of segmenting volumetric MR images using extremely sparse annotations, for which only the central slices are labeled manually. In our framework, two independent sets of pseudo labels are generated for unlabeled slices using self-supervised and semi-supervised learning methods. Boolean operation is adopted to achieve robust pseudo labels. Our approach can be very important in clinical applications to reduce manual effort on dataset construction.

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