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Contour Transformer Network for One-shot Segmentation of Anatomical Structures

2 Dec 2020arXiv:2012.01480archive 2025-07-28

Yuhang Lu, Kang Zheng, Weijian Li, Yirui Wang, Adam P. Harrison, ChiHung Lin, Song Wang, Jing Xiao, Le Lu, Chang-Fu Kuo, Shun Miao

Accurate segmentation of anatomical structures is vital for medical image analysis. The state-of-the-art accuracy is typically achieved by supervised learning methods, where gathering the requisite expert-labeled image annotations in a scalable manner remains a main obstacle. Therefore, annotation-efficient methods that permit to produce accurate anatomical structure segmentation are highly desirable. In this work, we present Contour Transformer Network (CTN), a one-shot anatomy segmentation method with a naturally built-in human-in-the-loop mechanism. We formulate anatomy segmentation as a contour evolution process and model the evolution behavior by graph convolutional networks (GCNs). Training the CTN model requires only one labeled image exemplar and leverages additional unlabeled data through newly introduced loss functions that measure the global shape and appearance consistency of contours. On segmentation tasks of four different anatomies, we demonstrate that our one-shot learning method significantly outperforms non-learning-based methods and performs competitively to the state-of-the-art fully supervised deep learning methods. With minimal human-in-the-loop editing feedback, the segmentation performance can be further improved to surpass the fully supervised methods.

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Anatomy Medical Image Analysis One-Shot Learning One-Shot Segmentation Segmentation

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