Unsupervised Domain Adaptation Using Adversarial Learning and Maximum Square Loss for Liver Tumors Detection in Multi-phase CT Images

Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2022 Jul:2022:1536-1539. doi: 10.1109/EMBC48229.2022.9871539.

Abstract

Automatic and efficient liver tumor detection in multi-phase CT images is essential in computer-aided diagnosis of liver tumors. Nowadays, deep learning has been widely used in medical applications. Normally, deep learning-based AI systems need a large quantity of training data, but in the medical field, acquiring sufficient training data with high-quality annotations is a significant challenge. To solve the lack of training data issue, domain adaptation-based methods have recently been developed as a technique to bridge the domain gap across datasets with different feature characteristics and data distributions. This paper presents a domain adaptation-based method for detecting liver tumors in multi-phase CT images. We adopt knowledge for model learning from PV phase images to ART and NC phase images. Clinical Relevance- To minimize the domain gap we employ an adversarial learning scheme with the maximum square loss for mid-level output feature maps using an anchorless detector. Experiments show that our proposed method performs much better for various CT-phase images than normal training.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Acclimatization*
  • Humans
  • Liver Neoplasms* / diagnostic imaging
  • Radiopharmaceuticals
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed

Substances

  • Radiopharmaceuticals