?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Automatic+Brain+Tumor+Segmentation+using+Cascaded+Anisotropic+Convolutional+Neural+Networks&rft.creator=Wang%2C+G&rft.creator=Li%2C+W&rft.creator=Ourselin%2C+S&rft.creator=Vercauteren%2C+T&rft.description=A+cascade+of+fully+convolutional+neural+networks+is+proposed+to+segment+multi-modal+Magnetic+Resonance+(MR)+images+with+brain+tumor+into+background+and+three+hierarchical+regions%3A+whole+tumor%2C+tumor+core+and+enhancing+tumor+core.+The+cascade+is+designed+to+decompose+the+multi-class+segmentation+problem+into+a+sequence+of+three+binary+segmentation+problems+according+to+the+subregion+hierarchy.+The+whole+tumor+is+segmented+in+the+first+step+and+the+bounding+box+of+the+result+is+used+for+the+tumor+core+segmentation+in+the+second+step.+The+enhancing+tumor+core+is+then+segmented+based+on+the+bounding+box+of+the+tumor+core+segmentation+result.+Our+networks+consist+of+multiple+layers+of+anisotropic+and+dilated+convolution+filters%2C+and+they+are+combined+with+multi-view+fusion+to+reduce+false+positives.+Residual+connections+and+multi-scale+predictions+are+employed+in+these+networks+to+boost+the+segmentation+performance.+Experiments+with+BraTS+2017+validation+set+show+that+the+proposed+method+achieved+average+Dice+scores+of+0.7859%2C+0.9050%2C+0.8378+for+enhancing+tumor+core%2C+whole+tumor+and+tumor+core%2C+respectively.+The+corresponding+values+for+BraTS+2017+testing+set+were+0.7831%2C+0.8739%2C+and+0.7748%2C+respectively.&rft.subject=Brain+tumor%2C+Convolutional+neural+network%2C+Segmentation&rft.publisher=Springer&rft.contributor=Crimi%2C+A&rft.contributor=Bakas%2C+S&rft.contributor=Kuijf%2C+H&rft.contributor=Menze%2C+B&rft.contributor=Reyes%2C+M&rft.date=2018&rft.type=Proceedings+paper&rft.publisher=3rd+International+Workshop+on+Brain-Lesion+(BrainLes)+held+jointly+at+the+Conference+on+Medical+Image+Computing+for+Computer+Assisted+Intervention+(MICCAI)&rft.language=eng&rft.source=+++++In%3A+Crimi%2C+A+and+Bakas%2C+S+and+Kuijf%2C+H+and+Menze%2C+B+and+Reyes%2C+M%2C+(eds.)+BrainLes+2017%3A+Brainlesion%3A+Glioma%2C+Multiple+Sclerosis%2C+Stroke+and+Traumatic+Brain+Injuries.++(pp.+pp.+178-190).++Springer%3A+Cham%2C+Switzerland.+(2018)+++++&rft.format=text&rft.identifier=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscovery.ucl.ac.uk%2Fid%2Feprint%2F1572791%2F1%2F1709.00382v2.pdf&rft.identifier=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscovery.ucl.ac.uk%2Fid%2Feprint%2F1572791%2F&rft.rights=open