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Abstract #1022

Segmentation of Brain Lesions Using Posterior Distributions Learned by Subspace-assisted Generative Model

Huixiang Zhuang1, Yue Guan1, Yi Ding1, Chang Xu1, Yuhao Ma1, Ziyu Meng1, Ruihao Liu1,2, Zhi-Pei Liang2,3, and Yao Li1
1School of Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, 2Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States, 3Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States

Synopsis

Keywords: Segmentation, Segmentation, Lesion segmentation; Generative model

Motivation: Deep learning shows great potential for brain lesion segmentation but poor generalization (due to limited training data) could lead to false positives.

Goal(s): Our goal was to improve the segmentation accuracy by learning target-specific posterior distributions.

Approach: We proposed a new Bayesian brain lesion segmentation method, leveraging posterior distributions learning, including both posterior normal and lesion distributions, through a subspace-assisted deep generative model.

Results: The proposed method achieved significantly improved segmentation performance across multiple public datasets with stroke, tumor, and multiple sclerosis lesions, in comparison with the state-of-the-art methods.

Impact: The proposed method significantly improved accuracy and robustness of lesions segmentation in brain MR images, which may provide a useful tool for brain lesion delineation in image processing and clinical applications.

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