Conflict management in the fusion of complementary segmentations of deformed kidneys and nephroblastoma.

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Date publication

décembre 2019

Journal

Medical image analysis

Auteurs

Membres identifiés du Cancéropôle Est :
Dr HENRIET Julien


Tous les auteurs :
Corbat L, Henriet J, Lapayre JC

Résumé

The fusion of multiple segmentations aims to improve their accuracy in order to make them exploitable. However, conflicts may appear. In this paper, two conflict-management models are proposed for the fusion of complementary segmentations. This conflict-management and fusion procedure, integrated into the SAIAD project, carries out the fusion of deformed kidneys and nephroblastoma using the combination of six independent methods. These methods are based on different criteria, like the adjacent segmented slices, the variation of information, the Dice, the neighbouring labels, the pixel intensity by scanner images, and the fully connected CRFs. The performances of our fusion models was evaluated on 139 scans for three patients with nephroblastoma, and the results demonstrate its effectiveness and the improvement of the resulting segmentations.

Mots clés

Cancer tumour, Conflict management, Fusion, Segmentation

Référence

Med Image Anal. 2019 Dec 18;60:101629