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Gliomas appear with wide variation in their characteristics both in terms of their appearance and location on brain MR images, which makes robust tumour segmentation highly challenging, and leads to high inter-rater variability even in manual segmentations. In this work, we propose a triplanar ensemble network, with an independent tumour core prediction module, for accurate segmentation of these tumours and their sub-regions. On evaluating our method on the MICCAI Brain Tumor Segmentation (BraTS) challenge validation dataset, for tumour sub-regions, we achieved a Dice similarity coefficient of 0.77 for both enhancing tumour (ET) and tumour core (TC). In the case of the whole tumour (WT) region, we achieved a Dice value of 0.89, which is on par with the top-ranking methods from BraTS17-19. Our method achieved an evaluation score that was the equal 5th highest value (with our method ranking in 10th place) in the BraTS20 challenge, with mean Dice values of 0.81, 0.89 and 0.84 on ET, WT and TC regions respectively on the BraTS20 unseen test dataset.
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Deep learning has quickly become the weapon of choice for brain lesion segmentation. However, few existing algorithms pre-configure any biological context of their chosen segmentation tissues, and instead rely on the neural networks optimizer to develop such associations de novo. We present a novel method for applying deep neural networks to the problem of glioma tissue segmentation that takes into account the structured nature of gliomas - edematous tissue surrounding mutually-exclusive regions of enhancing and non-enhancing tumor. We trained multiple deep neural networks with a 3D U-Net architecture in a tree structure to create segmentations for edema, non-enhancing tumor, and enhancing tumor regions. Specifically, training was configured such that the whole tumor region including edema was predicted first, and its output segmentation was fed as input into separate models to predict enhancing and non-enhancing tumor. Our method was trained and evaluated on the publicly available BraTS dataset, achieving Dice scores of 0.882, 0.732, and 0.730 for whole tumor, enhancing tumor and tumor core respectively.
Due to medical data privacy regulations, it is often infeasible to collect and share patient data in a centralised data lake. This poses challenges for training machine learning algorithms, such as deep convolutional networks, which often require large numbers of diverse training examples. Federated learning sidesteps this difficulty by bringing code to the patient data owners and only sharing intermediate model training updates among them. Although a high-accuracy model could be achieved by appropriately aggregating these model updates, the model shared could indirectly leak the local training examples. In this paper, we investigate the feasibility of applying differential-privacy techniques to protect the patient data in a federated learning setup. We implement and evaluate practical federated learning systems for brain tumour segmentation on the BraTS dataset. The experimental results show that there is a trade-off between model performance and privacy protection costs.
Brain tumor segmentation is a critical task for patients disease management. In order to automate and standardize this task, we trained multiple U-net like neural networks, mainly with deep supervision and stochastic weight averaging, on the Multimodal Brain Tumor Segmentation Challenge (BraTS) 2020 training dataset. Two independent ensembles of models from two different training pipelines were trained, and each produced a brain tumor segmentation map. These two labelmaps per patient were then merged, taking into account the performance of each ensemble for specific tumor subregions. Our performance on the online validation dataset with test time augmentation were as follows: Dice of 0.81, 0.91 and 0.85; Hausdorff (95%) of 20.6, 4,3, 5.7 mm for the enhancing tumor, whole tumor and tumor core, respectively. Similarly, our solution achieved a Dice of 0.79, 0.89 and 0.84, as well as Hausdorff (95%) of 20.4, 6.7 and 19.5mm on the final test dataset, ranking us among the top ten teams. More complicated training schemes and neural network architectures were investigated without significant performance gain at the cost of greatly increased training time. Overall, our approach yielded good and balanced performance for each tumor subregion. Our solution is open sourced at https://github.com/lescientifik/open_brats2020.
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