MTA-Net: A Multi-task Assisted Network for Whole-Body Lymphoma Segmentation

  • Zhaohai Liang
  • , Jiayi Wu
  • , Siyi Chai
  • , Yingkai Wang
  • , Chengdong Li
  • , Cong Shen
  • , Jingmin Xin

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Abstract

Lymphoma treatment planning and prognosis assessment require accurate segmentation of lymphoma lesions. Positron emission tomography (PET) /computed tomography (CT) is widely used for lymphoma segmentation. Many methods do automatic segmentation of lymphoma based on PET/CT. However, a significant challenge that limits the effectiveness of the segmentation method is the large and imbalance variation in size of whole-body lymphoma lesions. For example, a small percentage of images contain large lesions, while most images contain only small lesions or even no lesions, which results in inaccurate segmentation. In this paper, we propose a Multi-task Assisted Network (MTA-Net) for whole-body lymphoma segmentation. First, we design a novel Multi-task Cross-scale Transformer (MCT) block, which combines the pixels regression task and the whole image classification task at multiple scales. Second, we design a Classification Dynamic Convolution (CDC) whose parameters are additionally controlled by the classification task to assist the segmentation task. In our private whole-body lymphoma dataset, experiments show that MTA-Net achieves the best result among state-of-the-art methods on Dice, HD (Hausdorff Distance), Recall, and Precision.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationArtificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations - 20th IFIP WG 12.5 International Conference, AIAI 2024, Proceedings
EditorsIlias Maglogiannis, Lazaros Iliadis, Antonios Papaleonidas, John Macintyre, Markos Avlonitis
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages174-186
Number of pages13
ISBN (Print)9783031632105
DOIs
StatePublished - 2024
Event20th IFIP WG 12.5 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations, AIAI 2024 - Corfu, Greece
Duration: 27 Jun 202430 Jun 2024

Publication series

NameIFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
Volume711
ISSN (Print)1868-4238
ISSN (Electronic)1868-422X

Conference

Conference20th IFIP WG 12.5 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations, AIAI 2024
Country/TerritoryGreece
CityCorfu
Period27/06/2430/06/24

Keywords

  • lymphoma
  • multi-task learning
  • PET/CT
  • semantic segmentation

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