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On the Evaluation of Semi-Supervised 2D Segmentation for Volumetric 3D Computed Tomography Baggage Security Screening

Wang, Q.; Breckon, T.P.

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Q. Wang



Abstract

We address the automatic contraband material detection problem within volumetric 3D Computed Tomography (CT) data for baggage security screening. Distinct from the prohibited item detection using object detection techniques, contraband material detection is usually formulated as a segmentation problem due to the variations of their potential appearances and shapes. Previous studies have employed either morphological operation based traditional methods or 3D Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) for 3D segmentation towards target material detection within volumetric 3D CT baggage security screening imagery. In this work, we investigate the effectiveness of 2D semantic segmentation techniques in this 3D CT segmentation problem. Specifically, we extract 2D slices from three planes of the 3D CT volumes and train a 2D segmentation model which is subsequently used to predict segmentation results for all the slices from a given test CT volume. Moreover, we also evaluate how the performance is affected when using a reduced number of annotated slices for training. As a result, it is demonstrated reasonable performance can be achieved with very limited annotated slices (1–2) per CT volume during training. Finally, we propose a semi-supervised learning framework for 3D CT segmentation. Using only 1/128 of the total number of annotated slices, our framework can achieve comparable performance with full supervision.

Citation

Wang, Q., & Breckon, T. (2021). On the Evaluation of Semi-Supervised 2D Segmentation for Volumetric 3D Computed Tomography Baggage Security Screening. In 2021 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) Proceedings. https://doi.org/10.1109/ijcnn52387.2021.9533631

Conference Name 2021 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN)
Acceptance Date Apr 10, 2021
Online Publication Date Sep 20, 2021
Publication Date 2021
Deposit Date Apr 18, 2021
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Series ISSN 2161-4407
Book Title 2021 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) Proceedings
DOI https://doi.org/10.1109/ijcnn52387.2021.9533631

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