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Image detection algorithm of cerebral arterial stenosis by improved Libra region-convolutional neural network
Hanqing LIU, Xiaodong KANG, Fuqing ZHANG, Xiuyuan ZHAO, Jingyi YANG, Xiaotian WANG, Mengfan LI
Journal of Computer Applications    2022, 42 (9): 2909-2916.   DOI: 10.11772/j.issn.1001-9081.2021071206
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In view of the problems of vascular pleomorphism on transverse sections and sampling imbalance in the process of detection, an improved Libra Region-Convolutional Neural Network (R-CNN) cerebral arterial stenosis detection algorithm was proposed to detect internal carotid artery and vertebral artery stenosis in Computed Tomography Angiography (CTA) images. Firstly, ResNet50 was used as the backbone network in Libra R-CNN, Deformable Convolutional Network (DCN) was introduced into the 3, 4, 5 stages of backbone network, and the offsets were learnt to extract the morphological features of blood vessels on different transverse sections. Secondly, the feature maps extracted from the backbone network were input into Balanced Feature Pyramid (BFP) with the Non-local Neural Network (Non-local NN) introduced for deeper feature fusion. Finally, the fused feature maps were input to the cascade detector, and the final detection result was optimized by increasing the Intersection-over-Union (IoU) threshold. Experimental results show that compared with Libra R-CNN algorithm, the improved Libra R-CNN detection algorithm increases 4.3, 1.3, 6.9 and 4.0 percentage points respectively in AP, AP50, AP75 and APS, respectivelyon the cerebral artery CTA dataset; on the public CT dataset of colon polyps, the improved Libra R-CNN detection algorithm has the AP, AP50, AP75 and APS increased by 6.6, 3.6, 13.0 and 6.4 percentage points, respectively. By adding DCN, Non-local NN and cascade detector to the backbone network of Libra R-CNN algorithm, the features are further fused to learn the semantic information of cerebral artery structure and make the results of narrow area detection more accurate, and the improved algorithm has the ability of generalization in different detection tasks.

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