uNET

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uNET

uNET is a convolutional neural network developed for image segmentation (Ronneberger et al., 2015):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U-Net

A modified uNET was used by Isensee et al. (2018) in the MICCAI Brain Tumor Segmentation Challenge (BraTS). The BraTS data and this modified uNET were used for our first case study and the Multichannel Segmentation architecture for segmentation in PAI.

Additional case studies were made using this architecture:

Rat brain dopaminergic PET segmentation

Human brain MRI deep nuclei segmentation (IXI)

Human cardiac MRI segmentation for function analysis

This architecture is available as unet_002 in the Create Learning Set dialog:

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A classical uNET architecture is also available for segmentation projects. It is available as unet_001 in the Create Learning Set dialog.

This architecture is used for mouse cardiac MRI segmentation in the PCARDM tool, and it has additionally been used for the following case study:

mouse femur/tibia trabecular segmentation

The loss function used for both architectures is Dice Coefficient:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%B8rensen%E2%80%93Dice_coefficient

 

References:

Isensee et al. (2018), Brain Tumor Segmentation and Radiomics Survival Prediction: Contribution to the BRATS 2017 Challenge, https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.10508

Ronneberger et al. (2015), U-Net: Convolutional Networks for Biomedical Image Segmentation, https://arxiv.org/abs/1505.04597​