MR image restoration and segmentation via denoising deep adversarial network for blood vessels accurate diagnosis

• Published in: Signal processing. Image communication Vol. 117; p. 117013
• Main Authors: Jeyaraj, Pandia Rajan, Nadar, Edward Rajan Samuel
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier B.V 01.09.2023
• Subjects: Deep adversarial learning; Image restoration; Interclass decision making; Multiphase MRI; Segmentation; Deep adversarial learning; Multiphase MRI; Image restoration; Segmentation; Interclass decision making
• ISSN: 0923-5965; 1879-2677
• DOI: 10.1016/j.image.2023.117013

Segmenting the hepatic and portal veins is a difficult task, since it has multiple distortions. For effective restoration and to minimize distortions, a multi-stage deep adversarial learning network was proposed. The proposed network provides high reliability in segmenting hepatic and portal veins from distorted Magnetic Resonance (MR) images. The Proposed network directly considers the variation in vascular flow for vessel segmentation. By a two-stage deep adversarial network, which consist of geometric distortion by regularization in the first stage and in the second stage image blurriness is adjusted by a sub-pixel mechanism. To detect the hepatic venous flow, shared clustering was used to correlate the hepatic flow and venous flow. To have better image segmentation by restoration, end-to-end training by image adaptive by denoising was employed. The proposed Denoising Deep Adversarial Network (DDAN) generalizability is shown by curating a distorted TCGA dataset. We perform experiments by segmenting the distorted MR image with estimating depth, semantic interclass decision, and classification. The proposed DDAN is evaluated on a multi-phase open MRI public dataset from a local clinic and Kaggle Br35H. The obtained quantitative and qualitative evaluation data shows the practical applicability of the proposed deep learning model. We observed that the image edges, portal, and hepatic vein scale texture are clearly segmented to assist real-time applications like tumour surgery. •A denoising deep adversarial model was proposed to segment and restore MR images.•Regularized denoiser strategy was introduced to the proposed deep adversarial model training.•Real-time experiments are conducted on clinical dataset and synthetically simulated MR image dataset to evaluate performance.•Comparisons and ablation studies validate the effectiveness of proposed model over other MR image segmentation methods.