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Automatic recognition and tracking of liver blood vessels in ultrasound image using deep neural networks

  • Yue Zhao
  • , Yuanzheng Wang
  • , Yuan Yu
  • , Feng Yang
  • , Yi Shen*
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • School of Astronautics, Harbin Institute of Technology
  • Beijing Jiaotong University
  • Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen

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Abstract

Medical ultrasound devices are widely used in clinic because of its convenience, rapid and non-invasive. But ultrasound (US) images have the characteristics of large speckle noise, unclear target and low brightness. Since the deep learning theory has been developed, the accuracy of the tasks in the field of image has been greatly improved. In this paper, a deep neural network structure is established to automatic detect and track the liver vessel targets. Firstly, the dataset is augmented and preprocessed using histogram equalization. Secondly, the RetinaNet is implemented to extract the region of interest (ROI) in the US image. Then, the U-net is used to extract the features of the ROI, and deconvolution is implemented to restore the feature matrix to the size of the original image, which realize the automatic segmentation of blood vessels. Finally, the LSTM network is used to predict the information of vessels in the subsequent image. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm is fast and robust. The accuracy of the ROI detection is 98.9%. The average error of the distance of the center point of the target is less than 1 mm.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationICSP 2020 - 2020 IEEE 15th International Conference on Signal Processing Proceedings
EditorsYuan Baozong, Ruan Qiuqi, Zhao Yao, An Gaoyun
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages499-504
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781728144795
DOIs
StatePublished - 6 Dec 2020
Externally publishedYes
Event15th IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing, ICSP 2020 - Virtual, Beijing, China
Duration: 6 Dec 20209 Dec 2020

Publication series

NameInternational Conference on Signal Processing Proceedings, ICSP
Volume2020-December

Conference

Conference15th IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing, ICSP 2020
Country/TerritoryChina
CityVirtual, Beijing
Period6/12/209/12/20

Keywords

  • US image
  • automatic detection and segmentation
  • deep neural network
  • target prediction and tracking

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