Combining deep learning and shape priors for bi-ventricular segmentation of volumetric cardiac magnetic resonance images
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Author(s)
Type
Conference Paper
Abstract
In this paper, we combine a network-based method with image registration to develop a shape-based bi-ventricular segmentation tool for short-axis cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) volumetric images. The method first employs a fully convolutional network (FCN) to learn the segmentation task from manually labelled ground truth CMR volumes. However, due to the presence of image artefacts in the training dataset, the resulting FCN segmentation results are often imperfect. As such, we propose a second step to refine the FCN segmentation. This step involves performing a non-rigid registration with multiple high-resolution bi-ventricular atlases, allowing the explicit shape priors to be inferred. We validate the proposed approach on 1831 healthy subjects and 200 subjects with pulmonary hypertension. Numerical experiments on the two datasets demonstrate that our approach is capable of producing accurate, high-resolution and anatomically smooth bi-ventricular models, despite the artefacts in the input CMR volumes.
Date Issued
2018-11-23
Date Acceptance
2018-08-01
Citation
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2018, 11167, pp.258-267
ISBN
9783030047467
ISSN
0302-9743
Publisher
Springer Verlag
Start Page
258
End Page
267
Journal / Book Title
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume
11167
Copyright Statement
© 2018, Springer Nature Switzerland AG. The final publication is available at Springer via https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-030-04747-4_24
Sponsor
Imperial College London
Source
MICCAI ShapeMI Workshop
Subjects
Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing
Publication Status
Published
Start Date
2018-09-20
Coverage Spatial
Granada, Spain