Artificially-generated consolidations and balanced augmentation increase performance of U-net for lung parenchyma segmentation on MR images.
Cristian CrisostoAndreas VoskrebenzevMarcel GutberletFilip KlimešTill F KaireitGesa PöhlerTawfik Moher AlsadyLea BehrendtRobin MüllerMaximilian ZubkeFrank WackerJens Vogel-ClaussenPublished in: PloS one (2023)
Expanding training datasets via balanced augmentation and artificially-generated consolidations improved the accuracy of CNNBal/Cons, especially in datasets with parenchymal consolidations. This is an important step towards a robust automated postprocessing of lung MRI datasets in clinical routine.