Anatomy-Guided Pathology Segmentation

Alexander Jaus, Constantin Seibold, Simon Reiß, Lukas Heine, Anton Schily, Moon S. Kim, Fin Hendrik Bahnsen, Ken Herrmann, Rainer Stiefelhagen, Jens Kleesiek

Abstract: Pathological structures in medical images are typically deviations from the expected anatomy of a patient. While clinicians consider this interplay between anatomy and pathology, recent deep learning algorithms specialize in recognizing either one of the two, rarely considering the patient’s body from such a joint perspective.