Capsules for biomedical image segmentation

Rodney LaLonde, Ziyue Xu, Ismail Irmakci, Sanjay Jain, Ulas Bagci

Abstract: Highlights•First ever capsule network for image segmentation.•Reduced memory burden: locally-constrained routing and transformation matrix sharing.•Introduced novel deconvolutional capsules to create encoder-decoder architecture.•Extended the reconstruction regularization to the segmentation task.•Outperformed existing methods across five clinical and preclinical datasets for lung segmentation from CT scans.