Abstract
Accurate analysis and modeling of renal functions require a precise segmentation of the renal blood vessels. Micro-CT scans provide image data at higher resolutions, making deeper vessels near the renal cortex visible. Although deep-learning-based methods have shown state-of-the-art performance in automatic blood vessel segmentations, they require a large amount of labeled training data. However, voxel-wise labeling in micro-CT scans is extremely time-consuming, given the huge volume sizes. To mitigate the problem, we simulate synthetic renal vascular trees physiologically while generating corresponding scans of the simulated trees by training a generative model on unlabeled scans. This enables the generative model to learn the mapping implicitly without the need for explicit functions to emulate the image acquisition process. We further propose an additional segmentation branch over the generative model trained on the generated scans. We demonstrate that the model can directly segment blood vessels on real scans and validate our method on both 3D micro-CT scans of rat kidneys and a proof-of-concept experiment on 2D retinal images. Code and 3D results are available at (https://github.com/diku-dk/RenalVesselSeg ).
Originalsprog | Engelsk |
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Titel | Medical Image Learning with Limited and Noisy Data - 2nd International Workshop, MILLanD 2023, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2023, Proceedings |
Redaktører | Zhiyun Xue, Sameer Antani, Ghada Zamzmi, Feng Yang, Sivaramakrishnan Rajaraman, Zhaohui Liang, Sharon Xiaolei Huang, Marius George Linguraru |
Forlag | Springer |
Publikationsdato | 2023 |
Sider | 191-201 |
ISBN (Trykt) | 9783031471964 |
DOI | |
Status | Udgivet - 2023 |
Begivenhed | 2nd Workshop on Medical Image Learning with Noisy and Limited Data, MILLanD 2023 - Vancouver, Canada Varighed: 8 okt. 2023 → 8 okt. 2023 |
Konference
Konference | 2nd Workshop on Medical Image Learning with Noisy and Limited Data, MILLanD 2023 |
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Land/Område | Canada |
By | Vancouver |
Periode | 08/10/2023 → 08/10/2023 |
Navn | Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) |
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Vol/bind | 14307 LNCS |
ISSN | 0302-9743 |
Bibliografisk note
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