Matteo Tonietto, F. Zanderigo, A. Bertoldo, D. Devanand, J. Mann, B. Bodini, B. Stankoff
{"title":"Multicenter Validation Of Population-Based Input Function With Non-Linear Mixed Effect Modeling For Voxel-Wise Quantification Of [18F]Fdg Metabolic Rate","authors":"Matteo Tonietto, F. Zanderigo, A. Bertoldo, D. Devanand, J. Mann, B. Bodini, B. Stankoff","doi":"10.1109/ISBI.2019.8759190","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISBI.2019.8759190","url":null,"abstract":"Population-based input function (PBF) methods provide a less-invasive approach to the quantification of dynamic positron emission tomography (PET) images. PBF methods require the a priori creation of an input function template from a group of subjects who underwent full arterial blood sampling with the same radiotracer. The template is then calibrated using one or two blood samples from the subject under analysis. In this study we propose to generate the PBF template from a group of 8 subjects using a non-linear mixed effect approach and a new input function model. We validated our PBF approach using an independent[18F] FDG dataset of 25 subjects acquired in a different PET center. Results showed a high correlation (> 0.98) and low bias (mean percentage error=1.0 ± 3.1%) between the voxel-wise estimates of [18F] FDG net uptake rate (Ki) obtained with the measured input function and those obtained with the proposed PBF, supporting its use for the quantification of [18F] FDG images acquired in different PET centers.","PeriodicalId":119935,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE 16th International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI 2019)","volume":"76 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127081703","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Multi-anatomy localization in fetal echocardiography videos","authors":"A. Patra, J. Noble","doi":"10.1109/ISBI.2019.8759551","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISBI.2019.8759551","url":null,"abstract":"Fetal heart motion is an important diagnostic indicator for structural detection and functional assessment of congenital heart disease. We propose an approach towards integrating deep convolutional and recurrent architectures that utilize localized spatial and temporal features of different anatomical substructures within a global spatiotemporal context for interpretation of fetal echocardiography videos. We formulate our task as a cardiac structure localization problem with convolutional architectures for aggregating global spatial context and detecting anatomical structures on spatial region proposals. This information is aggregated temporally by recurrent architectures to quantify the progressive motion patterns. We experimentally show that the resulting architecture combines anatomical landmark detection at the frame-level over multiple video sequences-with temporal progress of the associated anatomical motions to encode local spatiotemporal fetal heart dynamics and is validated on a real-world clinical dataset.","PeriodicalId":119935,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE 16th International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI 2019)","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127284882","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ink Removal from Histopathology Whole Slide Images by Combining Classification, Detection and Image Generation Models","authors":"Sharib Ali, N. K. Alham, C. Verrill, J. Rittscher","doi":"10.1109/ISBI.2019.8759322","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISBI.2019.8759322","url":null,"abstract":"Histopathology slides are routinely marked by pathologists using permanent ink markers that should not be removed as they form part of the medical record. Often tumour regions are marked up for the purpose of highlighting features or other downstream processing such an gene sequencing. Once digitised there is no established method for removing this information from the whole slide images limiting its usability in research and study. Removal of marker ink from these high-resolution whole slide images is non-trivial and complex problem as they contaminate different regions and in an inconsistent manner. We propose an efficient pipeline using convolution neural networks that results in ink-free images without compromising information and image resolution. Our pipeline includes a sequential classical convolution neural network for accurate classification of contaminated image tiles, a fast region detector and a domain adaptive cycle consistent adversarial generative model for restoration of foreground pixels. Both quantitative and qualitative results on four different whole slide images show that our approach yields visually coherent ink-free whole slide images.","PeriodicalId":119935,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE 16th International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI 2019)","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124992536","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Deep Attentive Feature Learning for Histopathology Image Classification","authors":"Pengxiang Wu, Hui Qu, Jingru Yi, Qiaoying Huang, Chao Chen, Dimitris N. Metaxas","doi":"10.1109/ISBI.2019.8759267","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISBI.2019.8759267","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we present a new deep learning-based approach for histopathology image classification. Our method is built upon standard convolutional neural networks (CNNs), and incorporates two separate attention modules for more effective feature learning. In particular, the attention modules infer the attention maps along different dimensions, which help focus the CNNs on critical image regions, as well as highlight discriminative feature channels while suppressing the irrelevant information with respect to the classification task. The attention modules are light-weight, and enhances the feature representation with small extra computational overhead. Experimental results on the publicly available BreakHis dataset demonstrate that our method outperforms the state-of-the-arts by a large margin.","PeriodicalId":119935,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE 16th International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI 2019)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125800086","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Iteratively-Reweighted Beamforming For High-Resolution Ultrasound Imaging","authors":"A. Mahurkar, P. Pokala, C. Seelamantula","doi":"10.1109/ISBI.2019.8759495","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISBI.2019.8759495","url":null,"abstract":"Ultrasound imaging typically employs delay-and-sum (DAS) beamformers for image reconstruction. An apodization window is typically used to suppress the beam-pattern’s sidelobes. This approach introduces a trade-off between the mainlobe width versus the sidelobe attenuation and therefore offers limited performance. We consider a statistical framework for beamforming and present two variants. In the first one, the signal of interest is modeled as a Laplacian distributed random variable and the interference is modeled as additive and Gaussian distributed. A closed-form solution is obtained to this optimization problem. In the second variant, we propose an iteratively-reweighted (IR) beamforming algorithm, which solves a constrained optimization problem to determine the optimal apodization weights. This beamformer results in a sharper mainlobe that translates to a finer lateral resolution. The proposed method is compared with the standard DAS beamformer and a recently proposed statistically modeled beamformer, namely iMAP for different number of plane-wave (PW) insonifications. This algorithm is independent of the imaging modality employed and exhibits a superior performance in terms of lateral resolution.","PeriodicalId":119935,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE 16th International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI 2019)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125805019","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. B. Martins, Guilherme C. S. Ruppert, F. Reis, C. L. Yasuda, A. Falcão
{"title":"A Supervoxel-Based Approach for Unsupervised Abnormal Asymmetry Detection in Mr Images of the Brain","authors":"S. B. Martins, Guilherme C. S. Ruppert, F. Reis, C. L. Yasuda, A. Falcão","doi":"10.1109/ISBI.2019.8759166","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISBI.2019.8759166","url":null,"abstract":"Several pathologies are associated with abnormal asymmetries in brain images and their automated detection can improve diagnosis, segmentation, and automatic analysis of abnormal brain tissues (e.g., lesions). In this paper, we introduce a fully unsupervised supervoxel-based approach for abnormal asymmetry detection in MR images of the brain. Also, we present a new method for symmetrical supervoxel extraction called SymmISF. The experiments over a large set of MR-TI images reveal a higher detection rates and considerably less false positives in comparison to a deep learning auto-encoder approach.","PeriodicalId":119935,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE 16th International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI 2019)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126926221","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Timo Kepp, J. Ehrhardt, M. Heinrich, G. Hüttmann, H. Handels
{"title":"Topology-Preserving Shape-Based Regression Of Retinal Layers In Oct Image Data Using Convolutional Neural Networks","authors":"Timo Kepp, J. Ehrhardt, M. Heinrich, G. Hüttmann, H. Handels","doi":"10.1109/ISBI.2019.8759261","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISBI.2019.8759261","url":null,"abstract":"Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a non-invasive imaging modality that provides cross-sectional 3D images of biological tissue. Especially in ophthalmology OCT is used for the diagnosis of various eye diseases. Automatic retinal layer segmentation algorithms, which are increasingly based on deep learning techniques, can support diagnostics. However, topology properties, such as the order of retinal layers, are often not considered. In our work, we present an automatic segmentation approach based on shape regression using convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Here, shapes are represented by signed distance maps (SDMs) that assign the distance to the next object contour to each pixel. Thus, spatial regularization is introduced and plausible segmentations can be produced. Our method is evaluated on a public OCT dataset and is compared with two classification-based approaches. The results show that our method has fewer outliers with comparable segmentation performance. In addition, it has an improved topology preservation, which saves further post-processing.","PeriodicalId":119935,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE 16th International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI 2019)","volume":"161 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116160269","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Arko Barman, M. Inam, Songmi Lee, S. Savitz, S. Sheth, L. Giancardo
{"title":"Determining Ischemic Stroke From CT-Angiography Imaging Using Symmetry-Sensitive Convolutional Networks","authors":"Arko Barman, M. Inam, Songmi Lee, S. Savitz, S. Sheth, L. Giancardo","doi":"10.1109/ISBI.2019.8759475","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISBI.2019.8759475","url":null,"abstract":"Acute Ischemic Stroke (AIS) is the second leading cause of death worldwide in 2015, and 5th in the United States. Neuro-imaging is routinely used in the diagnosis and management of these patients. To create a decision support method for AIS, we propose a convolutional neural network for automated detection of ischemic stroke from CT Angiography (CTA), an imaging technique that is widely available and used routinely in stroke evaluations. The network has a novel design that makes it sensitive to changes in symmetry of vascular and brain tissue texture which allows it to detect ischemic stroke from CTA brain images. The proposed model is inspired from the paradigm of Siamese networks and applied to the two brain hemispheres in parallel. We tested the model on a clinical dataset of 217 subjects, 123 controls and 94 subjects imaged less than 24 hours after stroke onset. First, we tested the ability of the network in recognizing strokes with the original images, which contain asymmetries in both vascular structures and brain tissues. Then, we digitally removed the vasculature in order to evaluate the ability of the network to recognize strokes by analyzing brain tissue only. We achieved AUC 0.914 (CI 0.88-0.95) and AUC 0.899 (CI 0.86-0.94) on the two experiments respectively. The qualitative analysis of the network activation confirms that the model efficiently learns the vasculature and brain tissue structures in one hemisphere that does not appear in the opposite hemisphere.","PeriodicalId":119935,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE 16th International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI 2019)","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122649339","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Shaffie, A. Soliman, H. A. Khalifeh, M. Ghazal, F. Taher, Adel Said Elmaghraby, R. Keynton, A. El-Baz
{"title":"Radiomic-Based Framework for Early Diagnosis of Lung Cancer","authors":"A. Shaffie, A. Soliman, H. A. Khalifeh, M. Ghazal, F. Taher, Adel Said Elmaghraby, R. Keynton, A. El-Baz","doi":"10.1109/ISBI.2019.8759540","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISBI.2019.8759540","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes a new framework for pulmonary nodule diagnosis using radiomic features extracted from a single computed tomography (CT) scan. The proposed framework integrates appearance and shape features to get a precise diagnosis for the extracted lung nodules. The appearance features are modeled using 3D Histogram of Oriented Gradient (HOG) and higher-order Markov Gibbs random field (MGRF) model because of their ability to describe the spatial non-uniformity in the texture of the nodule regardless of its size. The shape features are modeled using Spherical Harmonic expansion and some basic geometric features in order to have a full description of the shape complexity of the nodules. Finally, all the modeled features are fused and fed to a stacked autoencoder to differentiate between the malignant and benign nodules. Our framework is evaluated using 727 nodules which are selected from the Lung Image Database Consortium (LIDC) dataset, and achieved classification accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity of 93.12%, 92.47%, and 93.60% respectively.","PeriodicalId":119935,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE 16th International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI 2019)","volume":"148 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122860262","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Xianli Liu, Haifeng Zhao, Shaojie Zhang, Zhenyu Tan
{"title":"Brain Image Parcellation Using Multi-Atlas Guided Adversarial Fully Convolutional Network","authors":"Xianli Liu, Haifeng Zhao, Shaojie Zhang, Zhenyu Tan","doi":"10.1109/ISBI.2019.8759507","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISBI.2019.8759507","url":null,"abstract":"Brain image parcellation is an essential procedure in neural image analysis. Recently, deep learning methods, such as fully convolutional network (FCN), have shown high computational efficiency and good performance in brain image parcellation. In this paper, a new multi-atlas guided adversarial FCN is proposed to enhance the parcellation quality. The generative model in our method is an improved FCN which is integrated with brain atlases information and multi-level feature skip connection. The discriminative model is a convolutional neural network (CNN) with multi-scale l1 loss function. Comparing to most existing deep learning based brain image parcellation methods, which use voxel-wise loss function only (e.g., cross entropy), the discriminative model in our method considers multi-scale deep features to guide the parcellation. In the experiment, two public MR brain image datasets LONI LPBA40 and NIREP-NAO are used to evaluate our method. Evaluation results demonstrate that our method outperforms the state-of-the-art methods in both datasets.","PeriodicalId":119935,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE 16th International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI 2019)","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121929167","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}