FV-Seg-Net: Fully Volumetric Network for Accurate Segmentation of COVID-19 Lesions From Chest CT Scans

Faculty Computer Science Year: 2022
Type of Publication: ZU Hosted Pages:
Authors:
Journal: IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics IEEE Volume: Volume: 19
Keywords : FV-Seg-Net: Fully Volumetric Network , Accurate Segmentation    
Abstract:
Automated and precise pneumonia segmentation of COVID-19 extends the view of medical supply chains and offers crucial medical supplies to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. Deep learning plays a vital role in improving the COVID-19 segmentation from computed tomography (CT) scans. However, the literature lacks a precise segmentation approach on small-size lesions because they often split the CT scan into 2-D slices or 3-D patches, leading to the loss of contextual and/or global information. In order to address this, this article proposes a novel fully volumetric segmentation network, called FV-Seg-Net, that effectively exploits the local and global spatial information and enables the entire CT volume processing at once. The decoder is designed using a computationally efficient recalibrated anisotropic convolution module that can acquire the 3-D semantic representation of the CT volumes with anisotropic resolution. To avoid losing information during down-sampling, we reconstruct the skip-connection using a multilevel multiscale pyramid aggregation module and ensure more effective context fusion that improves the reconstruction capability of the decoder. Finally, stacked data augmentation (StackAug) is presented to magnify the training data and improve the generalizability of FV-Seg-Net. Proof of concept experiments on two public datasets demonstrates that the FV-Seg-Net achieves excellent segmentation performance (Dice score: 85.69 and a surface-dice: 84.79%), outperforming the current cutting-edge studies.
   
     
 
       

Author Related Publications

  • Mohammed Abdel Basset Metwally Attia, "Discrete greedy flower pollination algorithm for spherical traveling salesman problem", Springer, 2019 More
  • Mohammed Abdel Basset Metwally Attia, "A New Hybrid Flower Pollination Algorithm for Solving Constrained Global Optimization Problems", Natural Sciences Publishing Cor., 2014 More
  • Mohammed Abdel Basset Metwally Attia, "A novel equilibrium optimization algorithm for multi-thresholding image segmentation problems", Springer London, 2021 More
  • Mohammed Abdel Basset Metwally Attia, "An efficient binary slime mould algorithm integrated with a novel attacking-feeding strategy for feature selection", Pergamon, 2021 More
  • Mohammed Abdel Basset Metwally Attia, "An efficient teaching-learning-based optimization algorithm for parameters identification of photovoltaic models: Analysis and validations", Pergamon, 2021 More

Department Related Publications

  • Saber Mohamed, "Evolving the Parameters of Differential Evolution using Evolutionary Algorithms", Springer, 2014 More
  • Saber Mohamed, "A Comparative Study of Different Variants of Genetic Algorithms for Constrained Optimization", Springer, 2010 More
  • Saber Mohamed, "Differential Evolution with Multiple Strategies for Solving CEC2011 Real-world Numerical Optimization Problems", IEEE, 2011 More
  • Mohammed Abdel Basset Metwally Attia, "A Review on the Applications of Neutrosophic Sets", Source: Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience, Volume 13, Number 1, January 2016, pp. 936-944(9), 2016 More
  • Mohammed Abdel Basset Metwally Attia, "A Review on the Applications of Neutrosophic Sets", Source: Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience, Volume 13, Number 1, January 2016, pp. 936-944(9), 2016 More
Tweet