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We present a novel method for small bowel segmentation where a cylindrical topological constraint based on persistent homology is applied. To address the touching issue which could break the applied constraint, we propose to augment a network with an additional branch to predict an inner cylinder of the small bowel. Since the inner cylinder is free of the touching issue, a cylindrical shape constraint applied on this augmented branch guides the network to generate a topologically correct segmentation. For strict evaluation, we achieved an abdominal computed tomography dataset with dense segmentation ground-truths. The proposed method showed clear improvements in terms of four different metrics compared to the baseline method, and also showed the statistical significance from a paired t-test.
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This research was supported by the National Institutes of Health, Clinical Center and National Cancer Institute.
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Shin, S.Y., Lee, S., Elton, D., Gulley, J.L., Summers, R.M. (2020). Deep Small Bowel Segmentation with Cylindrical Topological Constraints. In: Martel, A.L., et al. Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2020. MICCAI 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12264. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59719-1_21
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