1.Application of Novel Down-sampling Method in Retinal Vessel Segmentation.
Zhijin LYU ; Xuefang CHEN ; Xiaofang ZHAO ; Huazhu LIU
Chinese Journal of Medical Instrumentation 2023;47(1):38-42
Accurate segmentation of retinal blood vessels is of great significance for diagnosing, preventing and detecting eye diseases. In recent years, the U-Net network and its various variants have reached advanced level in the field of medical image segmentation. Most of these networks choose to use simple max pooling to down-sample the intermediate feature layer of the image, which is easy to lose part of the information, so this study proposes a simple and effective new down-sampling method Pixel Fusion-pooling (PF-pooling), which can well fuse the adjacent pixel information of the image. The down-sampling method proposed in this study is a lightweight general module that can be effectively integrated into various network architectures based on convolutional operations. The experimental results on the DRIVE and STARE datasets show that the F1-score index of the U-Net model using PF-pooling on the STARE dataset improved by 1.98%. The accuracy rate is increased by 0.2%, and the sensitivity is increased by 3.88%. And the generalization of the proposed module is verified by replacing different algorithm models. The results show that PF-pooling has achieved performance improvement in both Dense-UNet and Res-UNet models, and has good universality.
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Retinal Vessels
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Image Processing, Computer-Assisted
2. Combined anluohuaxianwan and entecavir treatment significantly improve the improvement rate of liver fibrosis in patients with chronic hepatitis B virus infection
Liang MIAO ; Wanna YANG ; Xiaoqin DONG ; Zhanqing ZHANG ; Shibin XIE ; Dazhi ZHANG ; Xuqing ZHANG ; Jun CHENG ; Guo ZHANG ; Weifeng ZHAO ; Qing XIE ; Yingxia LIU ; Anlin MA ; Jun LI ; Jia SHANG ; Lang BAI ; Lihua CAO ; Zhiqiang ZOU ; Jiabin LI ; Fudong LYU ; Hui LIU ; Zhijin WANG ; Mingxiang ZHANG ; Liming CHEN ; Weifeng LIANG ; Hui GAO ; Hui ZHUANG ; Hong ZHAO ; Guiqiang WANG
Chinese Journal of Hepatology 2019;27(7):521-526
Objective:
To explore the improvement rate of liver fibrosis in patients with chronic hepatitis B virus infection who received entecavir alone or in combination with anluohuaxianwan for 78 weeks.
Methods:
Patients with chronic HBV infection were randomly treated with entecavir alone or in combination with anluohuaxian for 78 weeks. Ishak fibrosis score was used for blind interpretation of liver biopsy specimens. The improvement in liver fibrosis condition before and after the treatment was compared. Student's t test and non-parametric test (Mann-Whitney U-Test and Kruskal-Wallis test) were used to analyze the measurement data. The categorical variables were analyzed by Chi-square test method and Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient was used to test bivariate associations.
Results:
Liver fibrosis improvement rate after 78 weeks of treatment was 36.53% (80/219) and the progression rate was 23.29% (51/219). The improvement of liver fibrosis was associated to the degree of baseline fibrosis and treatment methods (