Abstract
Right ventricular (RV) segmentation from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a crucial step for cardiac morphology and function analysis. However, automatic RV segmentation from MRI is still challenging, mainly due to the heterogeneous intensity, the complex variable shapes, and the unclear RV boundary. Moreover, current methods for the RV segmentation tend to suffer from performance degradation at the basal and apical slices of MRI. In this work, we propose an automatic RV segmentation framework, where the information from long-axis (LA) views is utilized to assist the segmentation of short-axis (SA) views via information transition. Specifically, we employed the transformed segmentation from LA views as a prior information, to extract the ROI from SA views for better segmentation. The information transition aims to remove the surrounding ambiguous regions in the SA views. We tested our model on a public dataset with 360 multi-center, multi-vendor and multi-disease subjects that consist of both LA and SA MRIs. Our experimental results show that including LA views can be effective to improve the accuracy of the SA segmentation. Our model is publicly available at https://github.com/NanYoMy/MMs-2.
L. Li and W. Ding—The two authors have equal contributions to the paper.
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This work was funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (grant no. 61971142, 62111530195 and 62011540404) and the development fund for Shanghai talents (no. 2020015).
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Li, L., Ding, W., Huang, L., Zhuang, X. (2022). Right Ventricular Segmentation from Short- and Long-Axis MRIs via Information Transition. In: Puyol Antón, E., et al. Statistical Atlases and Computational Models of the Heart. Multi-Disease, Multi-View, and Multi-Center Right Ventricular Segmentation in Cardiac MRI Challenge. STACOM 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 13131. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-93722-5_28
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