Skip priors and add graph-based anatomical information, for point-based Couinaud segmentation
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| author | Zhang, Xiaotong Broersen, Alexander van Erp, Gonnie CM Pintea, Silvia L. Dijkstra, Jouke |
| author_facet | Zhang, Xiaotong Broersen, Alexander van Erp, Gonnie CM Pintea, Silvia L. Dijkstra, Jouke |
| contents | The preoperative planning of liver surgery relies on Couinaud segmentation from computed tomography (CT) images, to reduce the risk of bleeding and guide the resection procedure. Using 3D point-based representations, rather than voxelizing the CT volume, has the benefit of preserving the physical resolution of the CT. However, point-based representations need prior knowledge of the liver vessel structure, which is time consuming to acquire. Here, we propose a point-based method for Couinaud segmentation, without explicitly providing the prior liver vessel structure. To allow the model to learn this anatomical liver vessel structure, we add a graph reasoning module on top of the point features. This adds implicit anatomical information to the model, by learning affinities across point neighborhoods. Our method is competitive on the MSD and LiTS public datasets in Dice coefficient and average surface distance scores compared to four pioneering point-based methods. Our code is available at https://github.com/ZhangXiaotong015/GrPn. |
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| spellingShingle | Skip priors and add graph-based anatomical information, for point-based Couinaud segmentation Zhang, Xiaotong Broersen, Alexander van Erp, Gonnie CM Pintea, Silvia L. Dijkstra, Jouke Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition The preoperative planning of liver surgery relies on Couinaud segmentation from computed tomography (CT) images, to reduce the risk of bleeding and guide the resection procedure. Using 3D point-based representations, rather than voxelizing the CT volume, has the benefit of preserving the physical resolution of the CT. However, point-based representations need prior knowledge of the liver vessel structure, which is time consuming to acquire. Here, we propose a point-based method for Couinaud segmentation, without explicitly providing the prior liver vessel structure. To allow the model to learn this anatomical liver vessel structure, we add a graph reasoning module on top of the point features. This adds implicit anatomical information to the model, by learning affinities across point neighborhoods. Our method is competitive on the MSD and LiTS public datasets in Dice coefficient and average surface distance scores compared to four pioneering point-based methods. Our code is available at https://github.com/ZhangXiaotong015/GrPn. |
| title | Skip priors and add graph-based anatomical information, for point-based Couinaud segmentation |
| topic | Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01785 |