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Title: Deep Learning Based Methods for Ultrasound Image Segmentation and Magnetic Resonance Image Reconstruction
Abstract: In recent years, deep learning (DL) algorithms, in particular convolutional networks, have rapidly become a methodology of choice for analyzing medical images. It has shown promising performances in many medical image analysis (MIA) problems, including classification, segmentation and reconstruction. However, the inherent difference between natural images and medical images (Ultrasound, MRI etc.) have hinder the performance of such DL-based method that originally designed for natural images. Another obstacle for DL-based MIA comes the availability of large-scale training dataset as it have shown that large and diverse dataset can effectively improve the robustness and generalization ability of DL networks.
In this thesis, we develop various deep learning-based approaches to address two medical image analysis problems. In the first problem, we focus on computer assisted orthopedic surgery (CAOS) applications that use ultrasound as intra-operative imaging modality. This problem requires an automatic and real-time algorithm to detect and segment bone surfaces and shadows in order to provide guidance for the orthopedic surgeon to a standardized diagnostic viewing plane with minimal artifacts. Due to the limitation of relatively small datasets and image differences from multiple ultrasound machines, we develop DL-based frameworks that leverage a local phase filtering technique and integrate it into the DL framework, thus improving the robustness.
Finally, we propose a fast and accurate Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) image reconstruction framework using a novel Convolutional Recurrent Neural Network (CRNN). Extensive experiments and evaluation on knee and brain datasets have shown its outstanding results compared to the traditional compressed sensing and other DL-based methods. Furthermore, we extend this method to enable multi sequence-reconstruction where T2-weighted MRI image can provide guidance and improvement to the reconstruction of amid proton transfer-weighted
MRI image.
Committee Members
Vishal M. Patel, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Rama Chellappa, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Carlos Castillo, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Shanshan Jiang, Department of Radiology and Radiological Science
Ilker Hacihaliloglu, Department of Biomedical Engineering (Rutgers University)