Research on liver cancer segmentation method based on PCNN image processing and SE-ResUnet

• Published in: Scientific Reports
• Main Authors: Lan Zang, Wei Liang, Hanchu Ke, Feng Chen, Chong Shen
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Nature Portfolio 2023-08-01
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-39240-0

Abstract As one of the malignant tumors with high mortality, the initial symptoms of liver cancer are not obvious. In addition, the liver is the largest internal organ of the human body, and its structure and distribution are relatively complex. Therefore, in order to help doctors judge liver cancer more accurately, this paper proposes a variant model based on Unet network. Before segmentation, the image is preprocessed, and Pulse Coupled Neural Network (PCNN) algorithm is used to filter the image adaptively to make the image clearer. For the segmentation model, the SE module is used as the input of the residual network, and then its output is connected to the Unet model through bilinear interpolation to perform the down-sampling and up-sampling operations. The dataset is a combination of Hainan Provincial People's Hospital and some public datasets Lits. The results show that this method has better segmentation performance and accuracy than the original Unet method, and the dice coefficient, mIou and other evaluation indicators have increased by at least 2.1%, which is a method that can be applied to cancer segmentation.