A Simple and Robust Framework for Cross-Modality Medical Image Segmentation applied to Vision Transformers

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Hauptverfasser: Bastico, Matteo, Ryckelynck, David, Corté, Laurent, Tillier, Yannick, Decencière, Etienne
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author Bastico, Matteo
Ryckelynck, David
Corté, Laurent
Tillier, Yannick
Decencière, Etienne
author_facet Bastico, Matteo
Ryckelynck, David
Corté, Laurent
Tillier, Yannick
Decencière, Etienne
contents When it comes to clinical images, automatic segmentation has a wide variety of applications and a considerable diversity of input domains, such as different types of Magnetic Resonance Images (MRIs) and Computerized Tomography (CT) scans. This heterogeneity is a challenge for cross-modality algorithms that should equally perform independently of the input image type fed to them. Often, segmentation models are trained using a single modality, preventing generalization to other types of input data without resorting to transfer learning techniques. Furthermore, the multi-modal or cross-modality architectures proposed in the literature frequently require registered images, which are not easy to collect in clinical environments, or need additional processing steps, such as synthetic image generation. In this work, we propose a simple framework to achieve fair image segmentation of multiple modalities using a single conditional model that adapts its normalization layers based on the input type, trained with non-registered interleaved mixed data. We show that our framework outperforms other cross-modality segmentation methods, when applied to the same 3D UNet baseline model, on the Multi-Modality Whole Heart Segmentation Challenge. Furthermore, we define the Conditional Vision Transformer (C-ViT) encoder, based on the proposed cross-modality framework, and we show that it brings significant improvements to the resulting segmentation, up to 6.87\% of Dice accuracy, with respect to its baseline reference. The code to reproduce our experiments and the trained model weights are available at https://github.com/matteo-bastico/MI-Seg.
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spellingShingle A Simple and Robust Framework for Cross-Modality Medical Image Segmentation applied to Vision Transformers
Bastico, Matteo
Ryckelynck, David
Corté, Laurent
Tillier, Yannick
Decencière, Etienne
Image and Video Processing
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
When it comes to clinical images, automatic segmentation has a wide variety of applications and a considerable diversity of input domains, such as different types of Magnetic Resonance Images (MRIs) and Computerized Tomography (CT) scans. This heterogeneity is a challenge for cross-modality algorithms that should equally perform independently of the input image type fed to them. Often, segmentation models are trained using a single modality, preventing generalization to other types of input data without resorting to transfer learning techniques. Furthermore, the multi-modal or cross-modality architectures proposed in the literature frequently require registered images, which are not easy to collect in clinical environments, or need additional processing steps, such as synthetic image generation. In this work, we propose a simple framework to achieve fair image segmentation of multiple modalities using a single conditional model that adapts its normalization layers based on the input type, trained with non-registered interleaved mixed data. We show that our framework outperforms other cross-modality segmentation methods, when applied to the same 3D UNet baseline model, on the Multi-Modality Whole Heart Segmentation Challenge. Furthermore, we define the Conditional Vision Transformer (C-ViT) encoder, based on the proposed cross-modality framework, and we show that it brings significant improvements to the resulting segmentation, up to 6.87\% of Dice accuracy, with respect to its baseline reference. The code to reproduce our experiments and the trained model weights are available at https://github.com/matteo-bastico/MI-Seg.
title A Simple and Robust Framework for Cross-Modality Medical Image Segmentation applied to Vision Transformers
topic Image and Video Processing
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.05572