Fast and automated segmentation for the three-directional multi-slice cine myocardial velocity mapping
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Journal Article
Abstract
Three-directional cine multi-slice left ventricular myocardial velocity mapping (3Dir MVM) is a cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) technique that allows the assessment of cardiac motion in three orthogonal directions. Accurate and reproducible delineation of the myocardium is crucial for accurate analysis of peak systolic and diastolic myocardial velocities. In addition to the conventionally available magnitude CMR data, 3Dir MVM also provides three orthogonal phase velocity mapping datasets, which are used to generate velocity maps. These velocity maps may also be used to facilitate and improve the myocardial delineation. Based on the success of deep learning in medical image processing, we propose a novel fast and automated framework that improves the standard U-Net-based methods on these CMR multi-channel data (magnitude and phase velocity mapping) by cross-channel fusion with an attention module and the shape information-based post-processing to achieve accurate delineation of both epicardial and endocardial contours. To evaluate the results, we employ the widely used Dice Scores and the quantification of myocardial longitudinal peak velocities. Our proposed network trained with multi-channel data shows superior performance compared to standard U-Net-based networks trained on single-channel data. The obtained results are promising and provide compelling evidence for the design and application of our multi-channel image analysis of the 3Dir MVM CMR data.
Date Issued
2021-02-19
Date Acceptance
2021-02-17
Citation
Diagnostics, 2021, 11 (2)
ISSN
2075-4418
Publisher
MDPI AG
Journal / Book Title
Diagnostics
Volume
11
Issue
2
Copyright Statement
© 2021 by the authors.Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.This article is an open access articledistributed under the terms andconditions of the Creative CommonsAttribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
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Sponsor
British Heart Foundation
European Research Council Horizon 2020
Commission of the European Communities
Innovative Medicines Initiative
Grant Number
PG/16/78/32402
H2020-SC1-FA-DTS-2019-1 952172
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Subjects
Science & Technology
Life Sciences & Biomedicine
Medicine, General & Internal
General & Internal Medicine
cardiovascular
segmentation
deep learning
cardiovascular
deep learning
segmentation
Publication Status
Published
Article Number
ARTN 346