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Conference paper 2024

Towards Unifying Anatomy Segmentation: Automated Generation of a Full-Body CT Dataset

Alexander Jaus, Constantin Seibold, Kelsey Hermann, Negar Shahamiri, Alexandra Walter, Kristina Giske, Johannes Haubold, Jens Kleesiek, Rainer Stiefelhagen

2024 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP)

Towards Unifying Anatomy Segmentation: Automated Generation of a Full-Body CT Dataset

Abstract

In this paper, we present a method for generating automated anatomy segmentation datasets using a sequential process that involves nnU-Net-based pseudo-labeling and anatomy-guided pseudo-label refinement. By combining various fragmented knowledge bases, we generate a dataset of whole-body CT scans with 142 voxel-level labels for 533 volumes providing comprehensive anatomical coverage. We validate its usefulness via Human expert evaluation and medical validity. This dataset enables the analysis of whole-body anatomy segmentation for cancer patients. Besides the DAP Atlas dataset, we release our trained anatomy segmentation models capable of predicting 142 anatomical structures on CT data.
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