We propose a hybrid segmentation pipeline based on the autoencoders’ capability of anomaly detection. To this end, we, first, introduce a new augmentation technique to generate synthetic paired images. Gaining advantage from the paired images, we propose a Normal Appearance Autoencoder (NAA) that is able to remove tumors and thus reconstruct realistic-looking, tumor-free images. After estimating the regions where the abnormalities potentially exist, a segmentation network is guided toward the candidate region. We tested the proposed pipeline on the BraTS 2019 database. The preliminary results indicate that the proposed model improved the segmentation accuracy of brain tumor subregions compared to the U-Net model.
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Astaraki, M., Wang, C., Carrizo, G., Toma-Dasu, I., & Smedby, Ö. (2020). Multimodal brain tumor segmentation with normal appearance autoencoder. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 11993 LNCS, pp. 316–323). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46643-5_31
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