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CFUN: Combining Faster R-CNN and U-net Heart Segmentation (arxiv.org)
2 points by jul8234 on Dec 19, 2018 | hide | past | pdf | discuss on HN

In plain words: This tool pinpoints the heart in a 3D scan and outlines it in one pass, instead of running detection and segmentation as separate steps. It matches the accuracy of the usual two-step approach while cutting the time to process a scan sharply.

Abstract · CFUN: Combining Faster R-CNN and U-net Network for Efficient Whole Heart Segmentation

In this paper, we propose a novel heart segmentation pipeline Combining Faster R-CNN and U-net Network (CFUN). Due to Faster R-CNN's precise localization ability and U-net's powerful segmentation ability, CFUN needs only one-step detection and segmentation inference to get the whole heart segmentation result, obtaining good results with significantly reduced computational cost. Besides, CFUN adopts a new loss function based on edge information named 3D Edge-loss as an auxiliary loss to accelerate the convergence of training and improve the segmentation results. Extensive experiments on the public dataset show that CFUN exhibits competitive segmentation performance in a sharply reduced inference time. Our source code and the model are publicly available at https://github.com/Wuziyi616/CFUN.

Zhanwei Xu, Ziyi Wu, Jianjiang Feng
arXiv:1812.04914 · cs.CV · submitted Dec 12, 2018
abstract · pdf · html · 12 pages, 6 figures

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