Asymmetry Disentanglement Network for Interpretable Acute Ischemic Stroke Infarct Segmentation in Non-contrast CT Scans

Haomiao Ni, Yuan Xue, Kelvin Wong, John Volpi, Stephen T.C. Wong, James Z. Wang, Xiaolei Huang

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Abstract

Accurate infarct segmentation in non-contrast CT (NCCT) images is a crucial step toward computer-aided acute ischemic stroke (AIS) assessment. In clinical practice, bilateral symmetric comparison of brain hemispheres is usually used to locate pathological abnormalities. Recent research has explored asymmetries to assist with AIS segmentation. However, most previous symmetry-based work mixed different types of asymmetries when evaluating their contribution to AIS. In this paper, we propose a novel Asymmetry Disentanglement Network (ADN) to automatically separate pathological asymmetries and intrinsic anatomical asymmetries in NCCTs for more effective and interpretable AIS segmentation. ADN first performs asymmetry disentanglement based on input NCCTs, which produces different types of 3D asymmetry maps. Then a synthetic, intrinsic-asymmetry-compensated and pathology-asymmetry-salient NCCT volume is generated and later used as input to a segmentation network. The training of ADN incorporates domain knowledge and adopts a tissue-type aware regularization loss function to encourage clinically-meaningful pathological asymmetry extraction. Coupled with an unsupervised 3D transformation network, ADN achieves state-of-the-art AIS segmentation performance on a public NCCT dataset. In addition to the superior performance, we believe the learned clinically-interpretable asymmetry maps can also provide insights towards a better understanding of AIS assessment. Our code is available at https://github.com/nihaomiao/MICCAI22_ADN.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationMedical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2022 - 25th International Conference, Proceedings
EditorsLinwei Wang, Qi Dou, P. Thomas Fletcher, Stefanie Speidel, Shuo Li
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages416-426
Number of pages11
ISBN (Print)9783031164514
DOIs
StateE-pub ahead of print - Sep 16 2022
Event25th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2022 - Singapore, Singapore
Duration: Sep 18 2022Sep 22 2022

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume13438 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference25th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2022
Country/TerritorySingapore
CitySingapore
Period9/18/229/22/22

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Computer Science(all)

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