Uolo - Automatic object detection and segmentation in biomedical images

  • Teresa Araújo*
  • , Guilherme Aresta
  • , Adrian Galdran
  • , Pedro Costa
  • , Ana Maria Mendonça
  • , Aurélio Campilho
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

We propose UOLO, a novel framework for the simultaneous detection and segmentation of structures of interest in medical images. UOLO consists of an object segmentation module which intermediate abstract representations are processed and used as input for object detection. The resulting system is optimized simultaneously for detecting a class of objects and segmenting an optionally different class of structures. UOLO is trained on a set of bounding boxes enclosing the objects to detect, as well as pixel-wise segmentation information, when available. A new loss function is devised, taking into account whether a reference segmentation is accessible for each training image, in order to suitably backpropagate the error. We validate UOLO on the task of simultaneous optic disc (OD) detection, fovea detection, and OD segmentation from retinal images, achieving state-of-the-art performance on public datasets.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationDeep Learning in Medical Image Analysis and Multimodal Learning for Clinical Decision Support - 4th International Workshop, DLMIA 2018 and 8th International Workshop, ML-CDS 2018 Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2018
EditorsLena Maier-Hein, Tanveer Syeda-Mahmood, Zeike Taylor, Zhi Lu, Danail Stoyanov, Anant Madabhushi, João Manuel R.S. Tavares, Jacinto C. Nascimento, Mehdi Moradi, Anne Martel, Joao Paulo Papa, Sailesh Conjeti, Vasileios Belagiannis, Hayit Greenspan, Gustavo Carneiro, Andrew Bradley
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages165-173
Number of pages9
ISBN (Print)9783030008888
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2018
Externally publishedYes
Event4th International Workshop on Deep Learning in Medical Image Analysis, DLMIA 2018 and 8th International Workshop on Multimodal Learning for Clinical Decision Support, ML-CDS 2018 Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2018 - Granada, Spain
Duration: 20 Sept 201820 Sept 2018

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume11045 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference4th International Workshop on Deep Learning in Medical Image Analysis, DLMIA 2018 and 8th International Workshop on Multimodal Learning for Clinical Decision Support, ML-CDS 2018 Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2018
Country/TerritorySpain
CityGranada
Period20/09/1820/09/18

Keywords

  • Biomedical images
  • Convolutional neural networks
  • Detection
  • Eye fundus images
  • Segmentation

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