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Early diagnosis and accurate segmentation of brain tumors are imperative for successful treatment. Unfortunately, manual segmentation is time consuming, costly and despite extensive human expertise often inaccurate. Here, we present an MRI-based tumor segmentation framework using an autoencoder-regularized 3D-convolutional neural network. We trained the model on manually segmented structural T1, T1ce, T2, and Flair MRI images of 335 patients with tumors of variable severity, size and location. We then tested the model using independent data of 125 patients and successfully segmented brain tumors into three subregions: the tumor core (TC), the enhancing tumor (ET) and the whole tumor (WT). We also explored several data augmentations and preprocessing steps to improve segmentation performance. Importantly, our model was implemented on a single NVIDIA GTX1060 graphics unit and hence optimizes tumor segmentation for widely affordable hardware. In sum, we present a memory-efficient and affordable solution to tumor segmentation to support the accurate diagnostics of oncological brain pathologies.
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We are grateful to Christian F. Doeller and the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience for supporting this work.
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Frey, M., Nau, M. (2020). Memory Efficient Brain Tumor Segmentation Using an Autoencoder-Regularized U-Net. In: Crimi, A., Bakas, S. (eds) Brainlesion: Glioma, Multiple Sclerosis, Stroke and Traumatic Brain Injuries. BrainLes 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11992. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46640-4_37
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