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Title:	Ground truth mask of the pterygium lesion
Authors:	Siti Raihanah Abdani Mohd Asyraf Zulkifley
Keywords:	Pterygium Segmentation Group convolution Spatial Pyramid Pooling Module Semantic Segmentation Shuffle Convolution
Issue Date:	2021
Description:	Pterygium is an eye condition that is prevalent among workers that are frequently exposed to sunlight radiation. However, most of them are not aware of this condition, which motivates many volunteers to set up health awareness booths to give them free health screening. As a result, a screening tool that can be operated on various platforms is needed to support the automated pterygium assessment. One of the crucial functions of this assessment is to extract the infected regions, which directly correlates with the severity levels. Hence, Group-PPM-Net is proposed by integrating a spatial pyramid pooling module (PPM) and group convolution to the deep learning segmentation network. The system uses a standard mobile phone camera input, which is then fed to a modified encoder-decoder convolutional neural network, inspired by a Fully Convolutional Dense Network that consists of a total of 11 dense blocks. A PPM is integrated into the network because of its multi-scale capability, which is useful for multi-scale tissue extraction. Moreover, group and shuffle convolution modules are also integrated at the decoder side of Group-PPM-Net by placing them at the starting layer of each dense block. The addition of these modules allows better correlation among the filters in each group, while the shuffle process increases channel variation that the filters can learn from. The results show that the proposed method obtains mean accuracy, mean intersection over union, Hausdorff distance, and Jaccard index performances of 0.9330, 0.8640, 11.5474, and 0.7966, respectively.
Notes:	Abdani, S. R., Zulkifley, M. A., & Zulkifley, N. H. (2021). Group and shuffle convolutional neural networks with pyramid pooling module for automated pterygium segmentation. Diagnostics, 11(6), 1104.
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