Hybrid Intelligent-Annotation Organ Segmentation on Medical Datasets.

Ultrasound image segmentation is crucial for early disease detection and treatment planning but remains a challenging task due to the low contrast of organ boundaries and varying image quality. Current methods often require manual intervention or have limited accuracy. In this paper, we propose a novel hybrid framework that combines an automatic option polygon segment (AOPS) algorithm and a distributed- and memory-based evolution (DME) algorithm for precise ultrasound organ segmentation. Our pipeline consists of two cascaded stages: (1) a coarse segmentation step using the AOPS algorithm, which determines the number of vertices/clusters without human intervention, and (2) a refinement step using the DME algorithm to hunt for the optimal neural network, which is then used to represent a smooth, explainable mathematical expression of the organ boundary. We employ the fractional backpropagation learning network with L2 regularization (FBLN) for training and use the scaled exponential linear unit (SELU) activation function to address the vanishing gradient problem. This is a new attempt such a hybrid framework is applied to ultrasound organ segmentation tasks, and it demonstrates significant contributions in terms of accuracy, smoothness, and computational efficiency.