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In this work, a novel deep neural network is developed to automatically segment human hippocampi from MR images. To take advantage of the efficiency of 2D convolutional operations, as well the inter-slice dependence within 3D volumes, our model stacks fully convolutional neural networks (CNN) through convolutional long short-term memory (CLSTM) to extract voxel labels. Enhanced slice-wise label consistency is ensured, leading to improved segmentation stability and accuracy. We apply our model on ADNI dataset, and demonstrate that our proposed model outperforms the state-of-the-art solutions.
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Chen, Y., Shi, B., Wang, Z., Sun, T., Smith, C.D., Liu, J. (2017). Accurate and Consistent Hippocampus Segmentation Through Convolutional LSTM and View Ensemble. In: Wang, Q., Shi, Y., Suk, HI., Suzuki, K. (eds) Machine Learning in Medical Imaging. MLMI 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10541. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67389-9_11
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