End-to-End Real-time Catheter Segmentation with Optical Flow-Guided Warping during Endovascular Intervention

Anh Nguyen, Dennis Kundrat, Giulio Dagnino, Wenqiang Chi, Mohamed E. M. K. Abdelaziz, Yao Guo, YingLiang Ma, Trevor M. Y. Kwok, Celia Riga, Guang-Zhong Yang

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    Abstract

    Accurate real-time catheter segmentation is an important pre-requisite for robot-assisted endovascular intervention. Most of the existing learning-based methods for catheter segmentation and tracking are only trained on smallscale datasets or synthetic data due to the difficulties of ground-truth annotation. Furthermore, the temporal continuity in intraoperative imaging sequences is not fully utilised. In
    this paper, we present FW-Net, an end-to-end and real-time deep learning framework for endovascular intervention. The proposed FW-Net has three modules: a segmentation network with encoder-decoder architecture, a flow network to extract optical flow information, and a novel flow-guided warping function to learn the frame-to-frame temporal continuity. We show that by effectively learning temporal continuity, the network can successfully segment and track the catheters in real-time sequences using only raw ground-truth for training. Detailed validation results confirm that our FW-Net outperforms stateof-
    the-art techniques while achieving real-time performance.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publication2020 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2020
    PublisherIEEE
    Pages9967 - 9973
    Number of pages7
    ISBN (Electronic)978-1-7281-7395-5
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 15 Sept 2020
    EventInternational Conference on Robotics and Automation - Virtual Conference, Paris, France
    Duration: 31 May 20204 Jun 2020
    https://www.icra2020.org/

    Publication series

    NameProceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
    ISSN (Print)1050-4729

    Conference

    ConferenceInternational Conference on Robotics and Automation
    Abbreviated titleICRA 2020
    Country/TerritoryFrance
    CityParis
    Period31/05/204/06/20
    Internet address

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Software
    • Control and Systems Engineering
    • Artificial Intelligence
    • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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