Report of KiTS19 competition

Authors
Bang, Du
Hongyun, Yu
Xiangshang, Zheng
Wang
Hao, Ying

Issue Date
2019

Publisher
University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing

Type
Article

Abstract
As an important organ of the urinary system, the kidney focuses on generating urine, purifying the blood, and also maintaining water, electrolytes and acid-base balance. Kidney tumors, as one of the most common tumors, are extremely harmful. Once they are found, surgery is the widespread treatment. Therefore, accurate segmentation of renal tumors is of great significance to surgeons performing renal tumor resection. To this end, this paper proposes an effective method for segmentation of the kidney and its tumor for the KiTS19 competition. Specifically, our method first designs a 3D ResUNet framework to segment the whole kidney, and then develops a 2.5D segmentation network to segment the tumors based on the result of kidney segmentation. After validation, the performance of our method reaches a good level under the given metric.

Identifiers
doi: 10.24926/548719.037