Domain Adaptive Sim-to-Real Segmentation of Oropharyngeal Organs

05/18/2023
by   Guankun Wang, et al.
National University of Singapore
Beijing University of Chemical Technology
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
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Video-assisted transoral tracheal intubation (TI) necessitates using an endoscope that helps the physician insert a tracheal tube into the glottis instead of the esophagus. The growing trend of robotic-assisted TI would require a medical robot to distinguish anatomical features like an experienced physician which can be imitated by utilizing supervised deep-learning techniques. However, the real datasets of oropharyngeal organs are often inaccessible due to limited open-source data and patient privacy. In this work, we propose a domain adaptive Sim-to-Real framework called IoU-Ranking Blend-ArtFlow (IRB-AF) for image segmentation of oropharyngeal organs. The framework includes an image blending strategy called IoU-Ranking Blend (IRB) and style-transfer method ArtFlow. Here, IRB alleviates the problem of poor segmentation performance caused by significant datasets domain differences; while ArtFlow is introduced to reduce the discrepancies between datasets further. A virtual oropharynx image dataset generated by the SOFA framework is used as the learning subject for semantic segmentation to deal with the limited availability of actual endoscopic images. We adapted IRB-AF with the state-of-the-art domain adaptive segmentation models. The results demonstrate the superior performance of our approach in further improving the segmentation accuracy and training stability.

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