# Deep Learning with Anatomical Priors: Imitating Enhanced Autoencoders in Latent Space for Improved Pelvic Bone Segmentation in MRI

Source: [Deep Learning with Anatomical Priors: Imitating Enhanced Autoencoders in Latent Space for Improved Pelvic Bone Segmentation in MRI](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa65811e209131cea0a9e4>)

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Authors: Duc Duy Pham, Gurbandurdy Dovletov, Sebastian Warwas, Stefan Landgraeber, Marcus J\\"ager, Josef Pauli

Published: 2019-03-21T22:28:14.000Z

## Abstract

We propose a 2D Encoder-Decoder based deep learning architecture for semantic segmentation, that incorporates anatomical priors by imitating the encoder component of an autoencoder in latent space. The autoencoder is additionally enhanced by means of hierarchical features, extracted by an U-Net module. Our suggested architecture is trained in an end-to-end manner and is evaluated on the example of pelvic bone segmentation in MRI. A comparison to the standard U-Net architecture shows promising improvements.

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## Original sources and implementation

[Original paper](<https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.09263>)

[PDF](<https://arxiv.org/pdf/1903.09263.pdf>)