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Multi-Task Learning for Small Brain Tumor Segmentation from MRI

Duc-Ky Ngo    
Minh-Trieu Tran    
Soo-Hyung Kim    
Hyung-Jeong Yang and Guee-Sang Lee    

Resumen

Segmenting brain tumors accurately and reliably is an essential part of cancer diagnosis and treatment planning. Brain tumor segmentation of glioma patients is a challenging task because of the wide variety of tumor sizes, shapes, positions, scanning modalities, and scanner?s acquisition protocols. Many convolutional neural network (CNN) based methods have been proposed to solve the problem of brain tumor segmentation and achieved great success. However, most previous studies do not fully take into account multiscale tumors and often fail to segment small tumors, which may have a significant impact on finding early-stage cancers. This paper deals with the brain tumor segmentation of any sizes, but specially focuses on accurately identifying small tumors, thereby increasing the performance of the brain tumor segmentation of overall sizes. Instead of using heavyweight networks with multi-resolution or multiple kernel sizes, we propose a novel approach for better segmentation of small tumors by dilated convolution and multi-task learning. Dilated convolution is used for multiscale feature extraction, however it does not work well with very small tumor segmentation. For dealing with small-sized tumors, we try multi-task learning, where an auxiliary task of feature reconstruction is used to retain the features of small tumors. The experiment shows the effectiveness of segmenting small tumors with the proposed method. This paper contributes to the detection and segmentation of small tumors, which have seldom been considered before and the new development of hierarchical analysis using multi-task learning.

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