V-Net swMATH ID: 35860 Software Authors: Fausto Milletari, Nassir Navab, Seyed-Ahmad Ahmadi Description: V-Net: Fully Convolutional Neural Networks for Volumetric Medical Image Segmentation. Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have been recently employed to solve problems from both the computer vision and medical image analysis fields. Despite their popularity, most approaches are only able to process 2D images while most medical data used in clinical practice consists of 3D volumes. In this work we propose an approach to 3D image segmentation based on a volumetric, fully convolutional, neural network. Our CNN is trained end-to-end on MRI volumes depicting prostate, and learns to predict segmentation for the whole volume at once. We introduce a novel objective function, that we optimise during training, based on Dice coefficient. In this way we can deal with situations where there is a strong imbalance between the number of foreground and background voxels. To cope with the limited number of annotated volumes available for training, we augment the data applying random non-linear transformations and histogram matching. We show in our experimental evaluation that our approach achieves good performances on challenging test data while requiring only a fraction of the processing time needed by other previous methods. Homepage: https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.04797 Source Code: https://github.com/mattmacy/vnet.pytorch Keywords: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV) Related Software: U-Net; ImageNet; Adam; COVID-Net; XGBoost; AlexNet; PDE-Net; MgNet; CosmoFlow; FastPM; nbodykit; DeepSphere; GADGET; SimpleITK; conover.test; Count-ception; FiLM; QuickNAT; mixup; PyTorch Cited in: 8 Publications all top 5 Cited by 33 Authors 1 Bois, Léo 1 Chen, Daozheng 1 Chen, Wei 1 Decazes, Pierre 1 Denœux, Thierry 1 Dong, Bin 1 Feng, Yu 1 Franck, Emmanuel 1 Gao, Jun 1 He, Juncai 1 He, Siyu 1 Ho, Shirley 1 Huang, Ling 1 Ji, Chunlei 1 Jiang, Qian 1 Li, Yin 1 Lucena, Oeslle 1 Lv, Peiqing 1 Navoret, Laurent 1 Ourselin, Sébastien 1 Póczos, Barnabás 1 Ravanbakhsh, Siamak 1 Ruan, Su 1 Sparks, Rachel 1 Vakharia, Vejay 1 Vigon, Vincent 1 Vos, Sjoerd B. 1 Wang, Haiying 1 Wang, Jinke 1 Xu, Jinchao 1 Zhang, Haimiao 1 Zhang, Xiangyang 1 Zhou, Lubiao all top 5 Cited in 6 Serials 2 Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering 1 International Journal of Approximate Reasoning 1 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 1 Kinetic and Related Models 1 Science China. Mathematics 1 Journal of the Operations Research Society of China all top 5 Cited in 6 Fields 7 Computer science (68-XX) 4 Biology and other natural sciences (92-XX) 2 Numerical analysis (65-XX) 1 Partial differential equations (35-XX) 1 Statistical mechanics, structure of matter (82-XX) 1 Relativity and gravitational theory (83-XX) Citations by Year