Voxel deconvolutional networks for 3D brain image labeling

Yongjun Chen, Min Shi, Hongyang Gao, Dinggang Shen, Lei Cai, Shuiwang Ji

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    Abstract

    Deep learning methods have shown great success in pixel-wise prediction tasks. One of the most popular methods employs an encoder-decoder network in which deconvolutional layers are used for up-sampling feature maps. However, a key limitation of the deconvolutional layer is that it suffers from the checkerboard artifact problem, which harms the prediction accuracy. This is caused by the independency among adjacent pixels on the output feature maps. Previous work only solved the checkerboard artifact issue of deconvolutional layers in the 2D space. Since the number of intermediate feature maps needed to generate a deconvolutional layer grows exponentially with dimensionality, it is more challenging to solve this issue in higher dimensions. In this work, we propose the voxel deconvolutional layer (VoxelDCL) to solve the checkerboard artifact problem of deconvolutional layers in 3D space. We also provide an efficient approach to implement VoxelDCL. To demonstrate the effectiveness of VoxelDCL, we build four variations of voxel deconvolutional networks (VoxelDCN) based on the U-Net architecture with VoxelDCL. We apply our networks to address volumetric brain images labeling tasks using the ADNI and Loni LPBA40 datasets. The experimental results show that the proposed iVoxelDCNa achieves improved performance in all experiments. It reaches 83.34% in terms of dice ratio on the ADNI dataset and 79.12% on the Loni LPBA40 dataset, which increases 1.39% and 2.21% respectively compared with the baseline. In addition, all the variations of VoxelDCN we proposed outperform the baseline methods on the above datasets, which demonstrates the effectiveness of our methods.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationKDD 2018 - Proceedings of the 24th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
    PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
    Pages1226-1234
    Number of pages9
    ISBN (Print)9781450355520
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2018 Jul 19
    Event24th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, KDD 2018 - London, United Kingdom
    Duration: 2018 Aug 192018 Aug 23

    Publication series

    NameProceedings of the ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

    Other

    Other24th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, KDD 2018
    Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
    CityLondon
    Period18/8/1918/8/23

    Bibliographical note

    Publisher Copyright:
    © 2018 Association for Computing Machinery.

    Keywords

    • Deep learning
    • Volumetric brain image labeling
    • Voxel deconvolutional layer
    • Voxel deconvolutional networks

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Software
    • Information Systems

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