期刊
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MEDICAL IMAGING
卷 37, 期 5, 页码 1081-1091出版社
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2017.2747081
关键词
Random forest; statistical shape model; contrast echocardiography; myocardial segmentation; convolutional neural network
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资金
- Imperial College President's Ph.D. Scholarships
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, U.K. [EP/M011933/1]
- EPSRC [EP/M011933/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/M011933/1] Funding Source: researchfish
Myocardial contrast echocardiography (MCE) is an imaging technique that assesses left ventricle function and myocardial perfusion for the detection of coronary artery diseases. Automatic MCE perfusion quantification is challenging and requires accurate segmentation of the myocardium from noisy and time-varying images. Random forests (RF) have been successfully applied to many medical image segmentation tasks. However, the pixel-wise RF classifier ignores contextual relationships between label outputs of individual pixels. RF which only utilizes local appearance features is also susceptible to data suffering from large intensity variations. In this paper, we demonstrate how to overcome the above limitations of classic RF by presenting a fully automatic segmentation pipeline for myocardial segmentation in full-cycle 2-D MCE data. Specifically, a statistical shape model is used to provide shape prior information that guide the RF segmentation in two ways. First, a novel shape model (SM) feature is incorporated into the RF framework to generate a more accurate RF probability map. Second, the shape model is fitted to the RF probability map to refine and constrain the final segmentation to plausible myocardial shapes. We further improve the performance by introducing a bounding box detection algorithm as a preprocessing step in the segmentation pipeline. Our approach on 2-D image is further extended to 2-D+t sequences which ensures temporal consistency in the final sequence segmentations. When evaluated on clinical MCE data sets, our proposed method achieves notable improvement in segmentation accuracy and outperforms other state-of-the-art methods, including the classic RF and its variants, active shape model and image registration.
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