DeepInfer: open-source deep learning deployment toolkit for image-guided therapy

Alireza Mehrtash; Mehran Pesteie; Jorden Hetherington; Peter A. Behringer; Tina Kapur; William M. Wells III; Robert Rohling; Andriy Fedorov; Purang Abolmaesumi

doi:10.1117/12.2256011

3 March 2017 DeepInfer: open-source deep learning deployment toolkit for image-guided therapy

Alireza Mehrtash, Mehran Pesteie, Jorden Hetherington, Peter A. Behringer, Tina Kapur, William M. Wells III, Robert Rohling, Andriy Fedorov, Purang Abolmaesumi

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Proceedings Volume 10135, Medical Imaging 2017: Image-Guided Procedures, Robotic Interventions, and Modeling; 101351K (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2256011
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2017, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

Deep learning models have outperformed some of the previous state-of-the-art approaches in medical image analysis. Instead of using hand-engineered features, deep models attempt to automatically extract hierarchical representations at multiple levels of abstraction from the data. Therefore, deep models are usually considered to be more flexible and robust solutions for image analysis problems compared to conventional computer vision models. They have demonstrated significant improvements in computer-aided diagnosis and automatic medical image analysis applied to such tasks as image segmentation, classification and registration. However, deploying deep learning models often has a steep learning curve and requires detailed knowledge of various software packages. Thus, many deep models have not been integrated into the clinical research work ows causing a gap between the state-of-the-art machine learning in medical applications and evaluation in clinical research procedures. In this paper, we propose "DeepInfer" - an open-source toolkit for developing and deploying deep learning models within the 3D Slicer medical image analysis platform. Utilizing a repository of task-specific models, DeepInfer allows clinical researchers and biomedical engineers to deploy a trained model selected from the public registry, and apply it to new data without the need for software development or configuration. As two practical use cases, we demonstrate the application of DeepInfer in prostate segmentation for targeted MRI-guided biopsy and identification of the target plane in 3D ultrasound for spinal injections.

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Alireza Mehrtash, Mehran Pesteie, Jorden Hetherington, Peter A. Behringer, Tina Kapur, William M. Wells III, Robert Rohling, Andriy Fedorov, and Purang Abolmaesumi "DeepInfer: open-source deep learning deployment toolkit for image-guided therapy", Proc. SPIE 10135, Medical Imaging 2017: Image-Guided Procedures, Robotic Interventions, and Modeling, 101351K (3 March 2017); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2256011

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