论文标题
CLDICE-肾小管结构分割的新型保留拓扑损失函数
clDice -- A Novel Topology-Preserving Loss Function for Tubular Structure Segmentation
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论文摘要
与许多研究领域相关的管状网络样结构（例如血管，神经元或道路）的准确分割与许多研究领域有关。对于这种结构，拓扑是它们最重要的特征。特别保留连接性：在血管网络的情况下，缺少连接的容器完全改变了血液流动的动力学。我们介绍了一种新型的相似性度量，称为中心线（短CLDICE），该测量是根据分割掩模及其（形态）骨骼的相交进行计算的。从理论上讲，我们证明，CLDICE保证拓扑保存至二进制2D和3D分割的同型等效性。扩展这一点，我们提出了一种用于训练任意神经分割网络的计算高效，可区分的损耗函数（软性损失）。我们在五个公共数据集上基准了软性损失，包括船只，道路和神经元（2D和3D）。对软性播放的培训可通过更准确的连接信息，更高的图形相似性和更好的体积分数进行分割。
Accurate segmentation of tubular, network-like structures, such as vessels, neurons, or roads, is relevant to many fields of research. For such structures, the topology is their most important characteristic; particularly preserving connectedness: in the case of vascular networks, missing a connected vessel entirely alters the blood-flow dynamics. We introduce a novel similarity measure termed centerlineDice (short clDice), which is calculated on the intersection of the segmentation masks and their (morphological) skeleta. We theoretically prove that clDice guarantees topology preservation up to homotopy equivalence for binary 2D and 3D segmentation. Extending this, we propose a computationally efficient, differentiable loss function (soft-clDice) for training arbitrary neural segmentation networks. We benchmark the soft-clDice loss on five public datasets, including vessels, roads and neurons (2D and 3D). Training on soft-clDice leads to segmentation with more accurate connectivity information, higher graph similarity, and better volumetric scores.
