Boundary-Emphasized Weight Maps for Distal Airway Segmentation
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| author | Keshavarzi, Ali Angelini, Elsa |
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| contents | Automated airway segmentation from lung CT scans is vital for diagnosing and monitoring pulmonary diseases. Despite advancements, challenges like leakage, breakage, and class imbalance persist, particularly in capturing small airways and preserving topology. We propose the Boundary-Emphasized Loss (BEL), which enhances boundary preservation using a boundary-based weight map and an adaptive weight refinement strategy. Unlike centerline-based approaches, BEL prioritizes boundary voxels to reduce misclassification, improve topology, and enhance structural consistency, especially on distal airway branches. Evaluated on ATM22 and AIIB23, BEL outperforms baseline loss functions, achieving higher topology-related metrics and comparable overall-based measures. Qualitative results further highlight BEL's ability to capture fine anatomical details and reduce segmentation errors, particularly in small airways. These findings establish BEL as a promising solution for accurate and topology-enhancing airway segmentation in medical imaging. |
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| spellingShingle | Boundary-Emphasized Weight Maps for Distal Airway Segmentation Keshavarzi, Ali Angelini, Elsa Image and Video Processing Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Automated airway segmentation from lung CT scans is vital for diagnosing and monitoring pulmonary diseases. Despite advancements, challenges like leakage, breakage, and class imbalance persist, particularly in capturing small airways and preserving topology. We propose the Boundary-Emphasized Loss (BEL), which enhances boundary preservation using a boundary-based weight map and an adaptive weight refinement strategy. Unlike centerline-based approaches, BEL prioritizes boundary voxels to reduce misclassification, improve topology, and enhance structural consistency, especially on distal airway branches. Evaluated on ATM22 and AIIB23, BEL outperforms baseline loss functions, achieving higher topology-related metrics and comparable overall-based measures. Qualitative results further highlight BEL's ability to capture fine anatomical details and reduce segmentation errors, particularly in small airways. These findings establish BEL as a promising solution for accurate and topology-enhancing airway segmentation in medical imaging. |
| title | Boundary-Emphasized Weight Maps for Distal Airway Segmentation |
| topic | Image and Video Processing Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.00242 |