A coarse-refine segmentation network for COVID-19 CT images

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Huang, Ziwang
Li, Liang
Zhang, Xiang
Song, Ying
Chen, Jianwen
Zhao, Huiying
Chong, Yutian
Wu, Hejun
Yang, Yuedong
Shen, Jun
Zha, Yunfei
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2021
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The rapid spread of the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) causes a significant impact on public health. It is critical to diagnose COVID-19 patients so that they can receive reasonable treatments quickly. The doctors can obtain a precise estimate of the infection's progression and decide more effective treatment options by segmenting the CT images of COVID-19 patients. However, it is challenging to segment infected regions in CT slices because the infected regions are multi-scale, and the boundary is not clear due to the low contrast between the infected area and the normal area. In this paper, a coarse-refine segmentation network is proposed to address these challenges. The coarse-refine architecture and hybrid loss is used to guide the model to predict the delicate structures with clear boundaries to address the problem of unclear boundaries. The atrous spatial pyramid pooling module in the network is added to improve the performance in detecting infected regions with different scales. Experimental results show that the model in the segmentation of COVID-19 CT images outperforms other familiar medical segmentation models, enabling the doctor to get a more accurate estimate on the progression of the infection and thus can provide more reasonable treatment options.

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IET Image Processing

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© 2021 The Authors. IET Image Processing published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of The Institution of Engineering and Technology. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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Huang, Z; Li, L; Zhang, X; Song, Y; Chen, J; Zhao, H; Chong, Y; Wu, H; Yang, Y; Shen, J; Zha, Y, A coarse-refine segmentation network for COVID-19 CT images, IET Image Processing, 2021

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