EVALUATION OF U-Net AND ResNet ARCHITECTURES FOR BIOMEDICAL IMAGE SEGMENTATION

Year 2023, Volume: 7 Issue: 3, 561 - 570, 31.12.2023

Mücahit Çalışan , Veysel Gündüzalp , Nevzat Olgun

https://doi.org/10.46519/ij3dptdi.1366431

Cited By: 1

Abstract

Medical professionals need methods that provide reliable information in diagnosing and monitoring neurological diseases. Among such methods, studies based on medical image analysis are essential among the active research topics in this field. Tumor segmentation is a popular area, especially with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Early diagnosis of tumours plays an essential role in the treatment process. This situation also increases the survival rate of the patients. Manually segmenting a tumour from MR images is a difficult and time-consuming task within the anatomical knowledge of medical professionals. This has necessitated the need for automatic segmentation methods. Convolutional neural networks (CNN), one of the deep learning methods that provide the most advanced results in the field of tumour segmentation, play an important role. This study, tumor segmentation was performed from brain and heart MR images using CNN-based U-Net and ResNet50 deep network architectures. In the segmentation process, their performance was tested using Dice, Sensitivity, PPV and Jaccard metrics. High performance levels were sequentially achieved using the U-Net network architecture on brain images, with success rates of approximately 98.47%, 98.1%, 98.85%, and 96.07%

Keywords

Tumor segmentation, Magnetic resonance imaging, MRI, Deep learning, Glioma

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