Journal
MEDICAL IMAGING 2022: IMAGE-GUIDED PROCEDURES, ROBOTIC INTERVENTIONS, AND MODELING
Volume 12034, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING
DOI: 10.1117/12.2611594
Keywords
Heart; cardiovascular diseases; computed tomography (CT); image segmentation; deep learning
Funding
- U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) [R01CA156775, R01CA204254, R01HL140325, R21CA231911]
- Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) [RP190588]
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This study introduces a semi-automated, deep learning-based approach to cardiac segmentation, which achieved good segmentation results by selecting points to mimic user interaction and training a fully convolutional neural network. The method showed promising performance for chamber-by-chamber delineation of the heart in CT images.
Given the prevalence of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), the segmentation of the heart on cardiac computed tomography (CT) remains of great importance. Manual segmentation is time-consuming and intra-and inter-observer variabilities yield inconsistent and inaccurate results. Computer-assisted, and in particular, deep learning approaches to segmentation continue to potentially offer an accurate, efficient alternative to manual segmentation. However, fully automated methods for cardiac segmentation have yet to achieve accurate enough results to compete with expert segmentation. Thus, we focus on a semi-automated deep learning approach to cardiac segmentation that bridges the divide between a higher accuracy from manual segmentation and higher efficiency from fully automated methods. In this approach, we selected a fixed number of points along the surface of the cardiac region to mimic user interaction. Points-distance maps were then generated from these points selections, and a three-dimensional (3D) fully convolutional neural network (FCNN) was trained using points-distance maps to provide a segmentation prediction. Testing our method with different numbers of selected points, we achieved a Dice score from 0.742 to 0.917 across the four chambers. Specifically. Dice scores averaged 0.846 +/- 0.059, 0.857 +/- 0.052, 0.826 +/- 0.062, and 0.824 +/- 0.062 for the left atrium, left ventricle, right atrium, and right ventricle, respectively across all points selections. This point-guided, image-independent, deep learning segmentation approach illustrated a promising performance for chamber-by-chamber delineation of the heart in CT images.
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