- Title
- Optimisation of 2D U-Net model components for automatic prostate segmentation on MRI
- Creator
- Astono, Indriani P.; Welsh, James S.; Chalup, Stephan; Greer, Peter
- Relation
- Applied Sciences Vol. 10, Issue 7, no. 2601
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/app10072601
- Publisher
- MDPI AG
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2020
- Description
- In this paper, we develop an optimised state-of-the-art 2D U-Net model by studying the effects of the individual deep learning model components in performing prostate segmentation. We found that for upsampling, the combination of interpolation and convolution is better than the use of transposed convolution. For combining feature maps in each convolution block, it is only beneficial if a skip connection with concatenation is used. With respect to pooling, average pooling is better than strided-convolution, max, RMS or L2 pooling. Introducing a batch normalisation layer before the activation layer gives further performance improvement. The optimisation is based on a private dataset as it has a fixed 2D resolution and voxel size for every image which mitigates the need of a resizing operation in the data preparation process. Non-enhancing data preprocessing was applied and five-fold cross-validation was used to evaluate the fully automatic segmentation approach. We show it outperforms the traditional methods that were previously applied on the private dataset, as well as outperforming other comparable state-of-the-art 2D models on the public dataset PROMISE12.
- Subject
- convolutional neural networks; medical image application; prostate segmentation; magnetic resonance imaging; MRI
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1429408
- Identifier
- uon:38709
- Identifier
- ISSN:2076-3417
- Rights
- © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
- Language
- eng
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