MV-RAN: Multiview recurrent aggregation network for echocardiographic sequences segmentation and full cardiac cycle analysis
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Author(s)
Li, Ming
Wang, Chengjia
Zhang, Heye
Yang, Guang
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Multiview based learning has generally returned dividends in performance because additional information can be extracted for the representation of the diversity of different views. The advantage of multiview based learning fits the purpose of segmenting cardiac anatomy from multiview echocardiography, which is a non-invasive, low-cost and low-risk imaging modality. Nevertheless, it is still challenging because of limited training data, a poor signal-to-noise ratio of the echocardiographic data, and large variances across views for a joint learning. In addition, for a better interpretation of pathophysiological processes, clinical decision-making and prognosis, such cardiac anatomy segmentation and quantitative analysis of various clinical indices should ideally be performed for the data covering the full cardiac cycle. To tackle these challenges, a multiview recurrent aggregation network (MV-RAN) has been developed for the echocardiographic sequences segmentation with the full cardiac cycle analysis. Experiments have been carried out on multicentre and multi-scanner clinical studies consisting of spatio-temporal (2D + t) datasets. Compared to other state-of-the-art deep learning based methods, the MV-RAN method has achieved significantly superior results (0.92 ± 0.04 Dice scores) for the segmentation of the left ventricle on the independent testing datasets. For the estimation of clinical indices, our MV-RAN method has also demonstrated great promise and will undoubtedly propel forward the understanding of pathophysiological processes, computer-aided diagnosis and personalised prognosis using echocardiography.
Date Issued
2020-05-01
Date Acceptance
2020-03-21
Citation
Computers in Biology and Medicine, 2020, 120
ISSN
0010-4825
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Journal / Book Title
Computers in Biology and Medicine
Volume
120
Copyright Statement
© 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. This manuscript is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Licence http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Identifier
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010482520301128?via%3Dihub
Subjects
Cardiac segmentation
Echocardiography
Machine learning
Multiview learning
Ultrasound
Biomedical Engineering
08 Information and Computing Sciences
09 Engineering
11 Medical and Health Sciences
Publication Status
Published
Article Number
ARTN 103728
Date Publish Online
2020-03-24