The analysis of magnetic resonance (MR) images plays an important role in medicine diagnosis. The localization of the anatomical structure of lesions or organs is a very important pretreatment step in clinical treatment planning. Furthermore, the accuracy of localization directly affects the diagnosis. We propose a multi-agent deep reinforcement learning-based method for prostate localization in MR image. We construct a collaborative communication environment for multi-agent interaction by sharing parameters of convolution layers of all agents. Because each agent needs to make action strategies independently, the fully connected layers are separate for each agent. In addition, we present a coarse-to-fine multi-scale image representation method to further improve the accuracy of prostate localization. The experimental results show that our method outperforms several state- of-the-art methods on PROMISE12 test dataset.
Medical image segmentation is a complex and critical step in the field of medical image processing and analysis. Manual annotation of the medical image requires a lot of effort by professionals, which is a subjective task. In recent years, researchers have proposed a number of models for automatic medical image segmentation. In this paper, we formulate the medical image segmentation problem as a Markov Decision Process (MDP) and optimize it by reinforcement learning method. The proposed medical image segmentation method mimics a professional delineating the foreground of medical images in a multi-step manner. The proposed model get notable accuracy compared to popular methods on prostate MR data sets. Meanwhile, we adopted a deep reinforcement learning (DRL) algorithm called deep deterministic policy gradient (DDPG) to learn the segmentation model, which provides an insight on medical image segmentation problem.
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