Fast fully automatic segmentation of the severely abnormal human right ventricle from cardiovascular magnetic resonance images using a multi-scale 3D convolutional neural network
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Type
Conference Paper
Abstract
Cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) is regarded as the reference examination for cardiac morphology in tetralogy of Fallot (ToF) patients allowing images of high spatial resolution and high contrast. The detailed knowledge of the right ventricular anatomy is critical in ToF management. The segmentation of the right ventricle (RV) in CMR images from ToF patients is a challenging task due to the high shape and image quality variability. In this paper we propose a fully automatic deep learning-based framework to segment the RV from CMR anatomical images of the whole heart. We adopt a 3D multi-scale deep convolutional neural network to identify pixels that belong to the RV. Our robust segmentation framework was tested on 26 ToF patients achieving a Dice similarity coefficient of 0.8281±0.1010 with reference to manual annotations performed by expert cardiologists. The proposed technique is also computationally efficient, which may further facilitate its adoption in the clinical routine.
Date Issued
2017-04-24
Date Acceptance
2016-10-21
Citation
2016 12th International Conference on Signal-Image Technology & Internet-Based Systems (SITIS), 2017, pp.42-46
ISBN
9781509056989
Publisher
IEEE
Start Page
42
End Page
46
Journal / Book Title
2016 12th International Conference on Signal-Image Technology & Internet-Based Systems (SITIS)
Copyright Statement
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Sponsor
Engineering & Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC)
British Heart Foundation
British Heart Foundation
Wellcome Trust
Grant Number
EP/P001009/1
FS/11/38/28864
FS/13/76/30477
093953/Z/10/Z
Source
12th International Conference on Signal-Image Technology and Internet-Based Systems (SITIS)
Subjects
Science & Technology
Technology
Computer Science, Information Systems
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Computer Science
Engineering
3D convolutional neural network
segmentation
right ventricle
cardiavascular magnetic resonance
tetralogy of Fallot
deep learning
WHOLE HEART SEGMENTATION
MRI
Publication Status
Published
Start Date
2016-11-28
Finish Date
2016-12-01
Coverage Spatial
Naples, Italy
Date Publish Online
2017-04-24