Multiple Sclerosis brain lesion segmentation with different architecture ensembles
Abstract
White matter lesion (WML) segmentation applied to magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans of people with multiple sclerosis has been an area of extensive research in recent years. As with most tasks in medical imaging, deep learning (DL) methods have proven very effective and have quickly replaced existing methods. Despite the improvement offered by these networks, there are still shortcomings with these DL approaches. In this work, we compare several DL algorithms, as well as methods for ensembling the results of those algorithms, for performing MS lesion segmentation. An ensemble approach is shown to best estimate total WML and has the highest agreement with manual delineations.
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Medical Imaging 2022: Biomedical Applications in Molecular, Structural, and Functional Imaging
- Pub Date:
- April 2022
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- Bibcode:
- 2022SPIE12036E..25T