Spherical u-net for infant cortical surface parcellation

Fenqiang Zhao, Shunren Xia, Zhengwang Wu, Li Wang, Zengsi Chen, Weili Lin, John H. Gilmore, Dinggang Shen, Gang Li

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    Abstract

    In human brain MRI studies, it is of great importance to accurately parcellate cortical surfaces into anatomically and functionally meaningful regions. In this paper, we propose a novel end-to-end deep learning method by formulating surface parcellation as a semantic segmentation task on the sphere. To extend the convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to the spherical space, corresponding operations of surface convolution, pooling and upsampling are first developed to deal with data representation on spherical surface meshes, and then spherical CNNs are constructed accordingly. Specifically, the U-Net and SegNet architectures are transformed to the spherical representation for neonatal cortical surface parcellation. Experimental results on 90 neonates indicate the effectiveness and efficiency of our proposed spherical U-Net, in comparison with the spherical SegNet and the previous patch-wise classification method.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationISBI 2019 - 2019 IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging
    PublisherIEEE Computer Society
    Pages1882-1886
    Number of pages5
    ISBN (Electronic)9781538636411
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2019 Apr
    Event16th IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, ISBI 2019 - Venice, Italy
    Duration: 2019 Apr 82019 Apr 11

    Publication series

    NameProceedings - International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging
    Volume2019-April
    ISSN (Print)1945-7928
    ISSN (Electronic)1945-8452

    Conference

    Conference16th IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, ISBI 2019
    Country/TerritoryItaly
    CityVenice
    Period19/4/819/4/11

    Bibliographical note

    Publisher Copyright:
    © 2019 IEEE.

    Keywords

    • Spherical u-net
    • Surface parcellation

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Biomedical Engineering
    • Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging

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