Shape-margin knowledge augmented network for thyroid nodule segmentation and diagnosis

边距(机器学习) 结核(地质) 分割 计算机科学 可解释性 特征(语言学) 人工智能 判别式 计算机辅助诊断 甲状腺 特征提取 甲状腺结节 图像分割 模式识别(心理学) 医学 机器学习 内科学 古生物学 生物 哲学 语言学
作者
Weihua Liu,Chaochao Lin,Duanduan Chen,Lijuan Niu,Rui Zhang,Z.P. Pi
出处
期刊:Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine [Elsevier BV]
卷期号:244: 107999-107999 被引量:4
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DOI:10.1016/j.cmpb.2023.107999
摘要

Thyroid nodule segmentation is a crucial step in the diagnostic procedure of physicians and computer-aided diagnosis systems. However, prevailing studies often treat segmentation and diagnosis as independent tasks, overlooking the intrinsic relationship between these processes. The sequencial steps of these independent tasks in computer-aided diagnosis systems may lead to the accumulation of errors. Therefore, it is worth combining them as a whole by exploring the relationship between thyroid nodule segmentation and diagnosis. According to the diagnostic procedure of thyroid imaging reporting and data system (TI-RADS), the assessment of shape and margin characteristics is the prerequisite for radiologists to discriminate benign and malignant thyroid nodules. Inspired by TI-RADS, this study aims to integrate these tasks into a cohesive process, leveraging the insights from TI-RADS, thereby enhancing the accuracy and interpretability of thyroid nodule analysis. Specifically, this paper proposes a shape-margin knowledge augmented network (SkaNet) for simultaneous thyroid nodule segmentation and diagnosis. Due to the visual feature similarities between segmentation and diagnosis, SkaNet shares visual features in the feature extraction stage and then utilizes a dual-branch architecture to perform thyroid nodule segmentation and diagnosis tasks respectively. In the shared feature extraction, the combination of convolutional feature maps and self-attention maps allows to exploitation of both local information and global patterns in thyroid nodule images. To enhance effective discriminative features, an exponential mixture module is introduced, combining convolutional feature maps and self-attention maps through exponential weighting. Then, SkaNet is jointly optimized by a knowledge augmented multi-task loss function with a constraint penalty term. The constraint penalty term embeds shape and margin characteristics through numerical computations, establishing a vital relationship between thyroid nodule diagnosis results and segmentation masks. We evaluate the proposed approach on a public thyroid ultrasound dataset (DDTI) and a locally collected thyroid ultrasound dataset. The experimental results reveal the value of our contributions and demonstrate that our approach can yield significant improvements compared with state-of-the-art counterparts. SkaNet highlights the potential of combining thyroid nodule segmentation and diagnosis with knowledge augmented learning into a unified framework, which captures the key shape and margin characteristics for discriminating benign and malignant thyroid nodules. Our findings suggest promising insights for advancing computer-aided diagnosis joint with segmentation.
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