Generating Dual-Energy Subtraction Soft-Tissue Images from Chest Radiographs via Bone Edge-Guided GAN

Yunbi Liu, Mingxia Liu, Yuhua Xi, Genggeng Qin, Dinggang Shen, Wei Yang

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Abstract

Generating dual-energy subtraction (DES) soft-tissue images from chest radiographs (also called bone suppression) is an important task, as it improves the detection rates for lung nodules. Previous studies focus on generating DES-like soft-tissue images from CXRs through machine/deep learning techniques. However, they usually require tedious image processing steps for bone segmentation/delineation or ignore anatomical structure information (e.g., edges of ribs and clavicles) in CXRs. In this work, we propose a bone Edge-guided Generative Adversarial Network (EGAN) to generate DES-like soft-tissue images from conventional CXRs, which does not require human intervention and can explicitly use anatomical structure information of bones in CXRs. Specifically, the edges of ribs and clavicles in an input CXR were first detected by a trained fully convolutional network. Then, the edge probability map, as well as the original CXR image, are fed into a GAN model to generate the DES-like soft-tissue image, where the detected edge information is used as the prior knowledge to directly and specifically guide the image generation process. Experimental results on 504 subjects (each equipped with a CXR, a DES bone image, and a DES soft-tissue image) demonstrate that EGAN can produce DES-like soft-tissue images with high-quality and high-resolution, compared with classic deep learning methods. We further apply the trained EGAN to CXRs acquired by different types of X-ray machines in the public JSRT and NIH ChestXray 14 datasets, and our method can also produce visually appealing DES-like soft-tissue images.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMedical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2020 - 23rd International Conference, Proceedings
EditorsAnne L. Martel, Purang Abolmaesumi, Danail Stoyanov, Diana Mateus, Maria A. Zuluaga, S. Kevin Zhou, Daniel Racoceanu, Leo Joskowicz
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages678-687
Number of pages10
ISBN (Print)9783030597122
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2020
Externally publishedYes
Event23rd International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2020 - Lima, Peru
Duration: 2020 Oct 42020 Oct 8

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume12262 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference23rd International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2020
Country/TerritoryPeru
CityLima
Period20/10/420/10/8

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Computer Science(all)

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