3D mesh segmentation is an important task with many biomedical applications. The human body has bilateral symmetry and some variations in organ positions. It allows us to expect a positive effect of rotation and inversion invariant layers in convolutional neural networks that perform biomedical segmentations. In this study, we show the impact of weight symmetry in neural networks that perform 3D mesh segmentation. We analyze the problem of 3D mesh segmentation for pathological vessel structures (aneurysms) and conventional anatomical structures (endocardium and epicardium of ventricles). Local geometrical features are encoded as sampling from the signed distance function, and the neural network performs prediction for each mesh node. We show that weight symmetry gains from 1 to 3% of additional accuracy and allows decreasing the number of trainable parameters up to 8 times without suffering the performance loss if neural networks have at least three convolutional layers. This also works for very small training sets.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2023 IEEE Ural-Siberian Conference on Computational Technologies in Cognitive Science, Genomics and Biomedicine, CSGB 2023 - Proceedings
Subtitle of host publicationbook
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages100-107
Number of pages8
ISBN (Print)979-835030797-9
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 28 Sept 2023
Event2023 IEEE Ural-Siberian Conference on Computational Technologies in Cognitive Science, Genomics and Biomedicine (CSGB) - Novosibirsk, Russian Federation
Duration: 28 Sept 202330 Sept 2023

Conference

Conference2023 IEEE Ural-Siberian Conference on Computational Technologies in Cognitive Science, Genomics and Biomedicine (CSGB)
Period28/09/202330/09/2023

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