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Fully Automatic initialization and segmentation of left and right ventricles for large-scale cardiac MRI using a
Huaifei Hu1, Ning Pan1, Alejandro F Frangi2
1College of Biomedical Engineering, South-Central Minzu University, Wuhan 430074, China; Hubei Key Laboratory of Medical Information Analysis and Tumor Diagnosis & Treatment, Wuhan 430074, China; Key Laboratory of Cognitive Science, State Ethnic Affairs Commission, Wuhan 430074, China.
Background And Objective:
The sheer volume of data generated by population imaging studies is unparalleled by current capabilities to extract objective and quantitative cardiac phenotypes; subjective and time-consuming manual image analysis remains the gold standard. Automated image analytics to compute quantitative imaging biomarkers of cardiac function are desperately needed. Data volumes and their variability pose a challenge to most state-of-the-art methods for endo- and epicardial contours, which lack robustness when applied to very large datasets. Our aim is to develop an analysis pipeline for the automatic quantification of cardiac function from cine magnetic resonance imaging data.
Method:
This work adopt 4,638 cardiac MRI cases coming from UK Biobank with ground truth available for left and RV contours. A hybrid and robust algorithm is proposed to improve the accuracy of automatic left and right ventricle segmentation by harnessing the localization accuracy of deep learning and the morphological accuracy of 3D-ASM (three-dimensional active shape models). The contributions of this paper are three-fold. First, a fully automatic method is proposed for left and right ventricle initialization and cardiac MRI segmentation by taking full advantage of spatiotemporal constraint. Second, a deeply supervised network is introduced to train and segment the heart. Third, the 3D-ASM image search procedure is improved by combining image intensity models with convolutional neural network (CNN) derived distance maps improving endo- and epicardial edge localization.
Results:
The proposed architecture outperformed the state of the art for cardiac MRI segmentation from UK Biobank. The statistics of RV landmarks detection errors for Triscuspid valve and RV apex are 4.17 mm and 5.58 mm separately. The overlap metric, mean contour distance, Hausdorff distance and cardiac functional parameters are calculated for the LV (Left Ventricle) and RV (Right Ventricle) contour segmentation. Bland-Altman analysis for clinical parameters shows that the results from our automated image analysis pipelines are in good agreement with results from expert manual analysis.
Conclusions:
Our hybrid scheme combines deep learning and statistical shape modeling for automatic segmentation of the LV/RV from cardiac MRI datasets is effective and robust and can compute cardiac functional indexes from population imaging.
