Multi-Site Infant Brain Segmentation Algorithms: The iSeg-2019 Challenge

Yue Sun, Kun Gao, Zhengwang Wu, Guannan Li, Xiaopeng Zong, Zhihao Lei, Ying Wei, Jun Ma, Xiaoping Yang, Xue Feng, Li Zhao, Trung Le Phan, Jitae Shin, Tao Zhong, Yu Zhang, Lequan Yu, Caizi Li, Ramesh Basnet, M. Omair Ahmad, M. N.S. SwamyWenao Ma, Qi Dou, Toan Duc Bui, Camilo Bermudez Noguera, Bennett Landman, Ian H. Gotlib, Kathryn L. Humphreys, Sarah Shultz, Longchuan Li, Sijie Niu, Weili Lin, Valerie Jewells, Dinggang Shen, Gang Li, Li Wang

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Abstract

To better understand early brain development in health and disorder, it is critical to accurately segment infant brain magnetic resonance (MR) images into white matter (WM), gray matter (GM), and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). Deep learning-based methods have achieved state-of-the-art performance; h owever, one of the major limitations is that the learning-based methods may suffer from the multi-site issue, that is, the models trained on a dataset from one site may not be applicable to the datasets acquired from other sites with different imaging protocols/scanners. To promote methodological development in the community, the iSeg-2019 challenge (http://iseg2019.web.unc.edu) provides a set of 6-month infant subjects from multiple sites with different protocols/scanners for the participating methods. T raining/validation subjects are from UNC (MAP) and testing subjects are from UNC/UMN (BCP), Stanford University, and Emory University. By the time of writing, there are 30 automatic segmentation methods participated in the iSeg-2019. In this article, 8 top-ranked methods were reviewed by detailing their pipelines/implementations, presenting experimental results, and evaluating performance across different sites in terms of whole brain, regions of interest, and gyral landmark curves. We further pointed out their limitations and possible directions for addressing the multi-site issue. We find that multi-site consistency is still an open issue. We hope that the multi-site dataset in the iSeg-2019 and this review article will attract more researchers to address the challenging and critical multi-site issue in practice.

Original languageEnglish
Article number9339962
Pages (from-to)1363-1376
Number of pages14
JournalIEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging
Volume40
Issue number5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2021 May

Keywords

  • Infant brain segmentation
  • deep learning
  • domain adaptation
  • isointense phase
  • low tissue contrast
  • multi-site issue

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Radiological and Ultrasound Technology
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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