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Brain Tumor Segmentation on MRI with Missing Modalities

  • SUNY Buffalo

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Abstract

Brain Tumor Segmentation from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a critical technique for early diagnosis. However, rather than having complete four modalities as in BraTS dataset, it is common to have missing modalities in clinical scenarios. We design a brain tumor segmentation algorithm that is robust to the absence of any modality. Our network includes a channel-independent encoding path and a feature-fusion decoding path. We use self-supervised training through channel dropout and also propose a novel domain adaptation method on feature maps to recover the information from the missing channel. Our results demonstrate that the quality of the segmentation depends on which modality is missing. Furthermore, we also discuss and visualize the contribution of each modality to the segmentation results. Their contributions are along well with the expert screening routine.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationInformation Processing in Medical Imaging - 26th International Conference, IPMI 2019, Proceedings
EditorsJames C. Gee, Paul A. Yushkevich, Albert C.S. Chung, Siqi Bao
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages417-428
Number of pages12
ISBN (Print)9783030203504
DOIs
StatePublished - 2019
Event26th International Conference on Information Processing in Medical Imaging, IPMI 2019 - Hong Kong, China
Duration: Jun 2 2019Jun 7 2019

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume11492 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference26th International Conference on Information Processing in Medical Imaging, IPMI 2019
Country/TerritoryChina
CityHong Kong
Period06/2/1906/7/19

Keywords

  • Brain tumor segmentation
  • Domain adaptation
  • Multi-modality
  • Self-supervised learning

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