A Deep Attentive Convolutional Neural Network for Automatic Cortical Plate Segmentation in Fetal MRI.

ABSTRACT: Fetal cortical plate segmentation is essential in quantitative analysis of fetal brain maturation and cortical folding. Manual segmentation of the cortical plate, or manual refinement of automatic segmentations is tedious and time-consuming. Automatic segmentation of the cortical plate, on the other hand, is challenged by the relatively low resolution of the reconstructed fetal brain MRI scans compared to the thin structure of the cortical plate, partial voluming, and the wide range of variations in the morphology of the cortical plate as the brain matures during gestation. To reduce the burden of manual refinement of segmentations, we have developed a new and powerful deep learning segmentation method. Our method exploits new deep attentive modules with mixed kernel convolutions within a

SUBMITTER: Dou H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8016740 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature