Liver Tumor Image Segmentation Method Based on U-Net Network

Liver tumors are the most common and fatal ones globally, bringing great harm to human life. In order to ascertain the precise location, size, and volume of tumors, the conventional method of manual segmentation necessitates that physicians delineate the tumor boundaries within the patients’ abdominal CT scans, a process that demands considerable expenditure of time and effort on the part of the medical staff. A method harnessing the U-Net neural network, predicated on deep learning, has been introduced in this study to augment the accuracy and efficiency of liver tumor segmentation in imaging. The U-Net network has been enhanced with the incorporation of Adam optimization and callback mechanisms to bolster the training efficacy and preserve the most effective model. Furthermore, the implementation of the binary crossentropy loss function has been pivotal for optimizing the neural network's convergence and predictive accuracy, which in turn has led to enhanced segmentation results. The experimental findings suggest that the proposed method is capable of automating the segmentation of liver tumor images, including the precise delineation of tumors and those with indistinct margins, achieving a segmentation accuracy of 99.64%.