Segmentation of Portal Vein in Multiphase CTA Image Based on Unsupervised Domain Transfer and Pseudo Label.

Diagnostics (Basel)

Digital Medical Research Center, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, China.

Published: July 2023


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Background: Clinically, physicians diagnose portal vein diseases on abdominal CT angiography (CTA) images scanned in the hepatic arterial phase (H-phase), portal vein phase (P-phase) and equilibrium phase (E-phase) simultaneously. However, existing studies typically segment the portal vein on P-phase images without considering other phase images.

Method: We propose a method for segmenting portal veins on multiphase images based on unsupervised domain transfer and pseudo labels by using annotated P-phase images. Firstly, unsupervised domain transfer is performed to make the H-phase and E-phase images of the same patient approach the P-phase image in style, reducing the image differences caused by contrast media. Secondly, the H-phase (or E-phase) image and its style transferred image are input into the segmentation module together with the P-phase image. Under the constraints of pseudo labels, accurate prediction results are obtained.

Results: This method was evaluated on the multiphase CTA images of 169 patients. The portal vein segmented from the H-phase and E-phase images achieved DSC values of 0.76 and 0.86 and Jaccard values of 0.61 and 0.76, respectively.

Conclusion: The method can automatically segment the portal vein on H-phase and E-phase images when only the portal vein on the P-phase CTA image is annotated, which greatly assists in clinical diagnosis.

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