Fully Automatic End-to-End Convolutional Neural Networks-Based Pancreatic Tumor Segmentation on CT Modality

Year 2022, Volume: 06 Issue: 2, 67 - 72, 31.12.2022

Ahmet Furkan Bayram , Caglar Gurkan , Abdulkadir Budak , Hakan Karataş

https://doi.org/10.34110/forecasting.1190299

Abstract

The pancreas is one of the vital organs in the human body. Early diagnosis of a disease in the pancreas is critical. In this way, the effects of pancreas diseases, especially pancreatic cancer on the person are decreased. With this purpose, artificial intelligence-assisted pancreatic cancer segmentation was performed for early diagnosis in this paper. For this aim, several state-of-the-art segmentation networks, UNet, LinkNet, SegNet, SQ-Net, DABNet, EDANet, and ESNet were used in this study. In the comparative analysis, the best segmentation performance has been achieved by SQ-Net. SQ-Net has achieved a 0.917 dice score, 0.847 IoU score, 0.920 sensitivity, 1.000 specificity, 0.914 precision, and 0.999 accuracy. Considering these results, an artificial intelligence-based decision support system was created in the study.

Keywords

Pancreas, Pancreatic Tumor, Deep Learning, Convolutional Neural Networks, Segmentation

Thanks

This paper has been prepared by AKGUN Computer Incorporated Company. We would like to thank AKGUN Computer Inc. for providing all kinds of opportunities and funds for the execution of this project.

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