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Abstract
Objective. Automatic segmentation of prostatic zones from MRI can improve clinical diagnosis of prostate cancer as lesions in the peripheral zone (PZ) and central gland (CG) exhibit different characteristics. Existing approaches are limited in their accuracy in localizing the edges of PZ and CG. The proposed boundary-aware semantic clustering network (BASC-Net) improves segmentation performance by learning features in the vicinity of the prostate zonal boundaries, instead of only focusing on manually segmented boundaries. Approach. BASC-Net consists of two major components: the semantic clustering attention (SCA) module and the boundary-aware contrastive (BAC) loss. The SCA module implements a self-attention mechanism that extracts feature bases representing essential features of the inner body and boundary subregions and constructs attention maps highlighting each subregion. SCA is the first self-attention algorithm that utilizes ground truth masks to supervise the feature basis construction process. The features extracted from the inner body and boundary subregions of the same zone were integrated by BAC loss, which promotes the similarity of features extracted in the two subregions of the same zone. The BAC loss further promotes the difference between features extracted from different zones. Main results. BASC-Net was evaluated on the NCI-ISBI 2013 Challenge and Prostate158 datasets. An inter-dataset evaluation was conducted to evaluate the generalizability of the proposed method. BASC-Net outperformed nine state-of-the-art methods in all three experimental settings, attaining Dice similarity coefficients of 79.9% and 88.6% for PZ and CG, respectively, in the NCI-ISBI dataset, 80.5% and 89.2% for PZ and CG, respectively, in Prostate158 dataset, and 73.2% and 87.4% for PZ and CG, respectively, in the inter-dataset evaluation. Significance. As prostate lesions in PZ and CG have different characteristics, the zonal boundaries segmented by BASC-Net will facilitate prostate lesion detection. © 2024 The Author(s). Published on behalf of Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine by IOP Publishing Ltd
Original language | English |
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Article number | 175009 |
Journal | Physics in Medicine and Biology |
Volume | 69 |
Issue number | 17 |
Online published | 20 Aug 2024 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 7 Sept 2024 |
Funding
This work was supported by the Research Grant Council of HKSAR, China (Project No. CityU 11205421).
Research Keywords
- boundary-aware contrastive (BAC) loss
- prostate zonal segmentation
- self-attention
- semantic clustering attention (SCA)
Publisher's Copyright Statement
- This full text is made available under CC-BY 4.0. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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GRF: Semi-Supervised Segmentation and Grading of Prostate Cancer Lesions from Multiparametric Magnetic Resonance Images
CHAN, L. H. L. (Principal Investigator / Project Coordinator) & CHO, C. M. C. (Co-Investigator)
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