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Multiple sclerosis lesions segmentation is an important step in the diagnosis and tracking in the evolution of the disease. Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) have been obtaining successful results in the task of lesion segmentation in recent years, but still present problem segmenting boundaries of the lesions. In this work we focus the learning process on hard voxels close to the boundaries of the lesions by means of a stratified sampling and the use of focal loss function that dynamically increase the penalization on this kind of voxels. This approach was applied on the 2015 Longitudinal MS Lesion Segmentation Challenge dataset (ISBI2015 (https://smart-stats-tools.org/lesion-challenge)), obtaining better results than approaches using binary cross entropy loss and focal loss functions with uniform sampling.
Supported by Fondecyt Grant 1170123.
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This work was supported in part by the Fondecyt Grant 1170123 and ANID PIA/apoyo Project AFB 1800082. Alejandro Veloz is supported by the Fondecyt Grant 1201822. Héctor Allende-Cid is supported by Fondecyt Initiation into Research 11150248.
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Ulloa, G., Veloz, A., Allende-Cid, H., Allende, H. (2020). Improving Multiple Sclerosis Lesion Boundaries Segmentation by Convolutional Neural Networks with Focal Learning. In: Campilho, A., Karray, F., Wang, Z. (eds) Image Analysis and Recognition. ICIAR 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12132. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50516-5_16
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