The invention provides a point interaction
deep learning segmentation
algorithm specially for solving the
kidney tumor segmentation problem in a medical image. The
algorithm is composed of a point interaction preprocessing module, a bidirectional ConvRNN unit and a core deep segmentation network. The
algorithm starts from a tumor center position provided by an expert; in 16 directions with uniformintervals, 16 image blocks with the size of 32 * 32 are intensively collected from inside to outside according to the step length of 4 pixels to form an image block sequence, a deep segmentation network with
sequence learning is used for learning the inside and outside change trend of a target, the edge of the target is determined, and segmentation of the
kidney tumor is achieved. The method canovercome the influences of
low contrast, variable target positions and fuzzy target edges of medical images, and is suitable for organ segmentation and tumor segmentation tasks. Compared with the prior art, the method has the following characteristics: 1) the
interaction mode is simple and convenient; (2) a Sequence Patch Learning concept is provided, and a sequence image block is used for capturing a long-range
semantic relationship, so that a relatively large
receptive field can be obtained even in a relatively shallow network; and 3) a brand-new ConvRNN unit is provided, the inside and outside change trend of the target is learned, the
interpretability is relatively high, the actual working mode of doctors is met, and the final model is high in precision and strong in applicability.