PECI-Net: Bolus segmentation from video fluoroscopic swallowing study images using preprocessing ensemble and cascaded inference
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| author | Park, Dougho Kim, Younghun Kang, Harim Lee, Junmyeoung Choi, Jinyoung Kim, Taeyeon Lee, Sangeok Son, Seokil Kim, Minsol Kim, Injung |
| author_facet | Park, Dougho Kim, Younghun Kang, Harim Lee, Junmyeoung Choi, Jinyoung Kim, Taeyeon Lee, Sangeok Son, Seokil Kim, Minsol Kim, Injung |
| contents | Bolus segmentation is crucial for the automated detection of swallowing disorders in videofluoroscopic swallowing studies (VFSS). However, it is difficult for the model to accurately segment a bolus region in a VFSS image because VFSS images are translucent, have low contrast and unclear region boundaries, and lack color information. To overcome these challenges, we propose PECI-Net, a network architecture for VFSS image analysis that combines two novel techniques: the preprocessing ensemble network (PEN) and the cascaded inference network (CIN). PEN enhances the sharpness and contrast of the VFSS image by combining multiple preprocessing algorithms in a learnable way. CIN reduces ambiguity in bolus segmentation by using context from other regions through cascaded inference. Moreover, CIN prevents undesirable side effects from unreliably segmented regions by referring to the context in an asymmetric way. In experiments, PECI-Net exhibited higher performance than four recently developed baseline models, outperforming TernausNet, the best among the baseline models, by 4.54\% and the widely used UNet by 10.83\%. The results of the ablation studies confirm that CIN and PEN are effective in improving bolus segmentation performance. |
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| spellingShingle | PECI-Net: Bolus segmentation from video fluoroscopic swallowing study images using preprocessing ensemble and cascaded inference Park, Dougho Kim, Younghun Kang, Harim Lee, Junmyeoung Choi, Jinyoung Kim, Taeyeon Lee, Sangeok Son, Seokil Kim, Minsol Kim, Injung Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Bolus segmentation is crucial for the automated detection of swallowing disorders in videofluoroscopic swallowing studies (VFSS). However, it is difficult for the model to accurately segment a bolus region in a VFSS image because VFSS images are translucent, have low contrast and unclear region boundaries, and lack color information. To overcome these challenges, we propose PECI-Net, a network architecture for VFSS image analysis that combines two novel techniques: the preprocessing ensemble network (PEN) and the cascaded inference network (CIN). PEN enhances the sharpness and contrast of the VFSS image by combining multiple preprocessing algorithms in a learnable way. CIN reduces ambiguity in bolus segmentation by using context from other regions through cascaded inference. Moreover, CIN prevents undesirable side effects from unreliably segmented regions by referring to the context in an asymmetric way. In experiments, PECI-Net exhibited higher performance than four recently developed baseline models, outperforming TernausNet, the best among the baseline models, by 4.54\% and the widely used UNet by 10.83\%. The results of the ablation studies confirm that CIN and PEN are effective in improving bolus segmentation performance. |
| title | PECI-Net: Bolus segmentation from video fluoroscopic swallowing study images using preprocessing ensemble and cascaded inference |
| topic | Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.14191 |