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    Area of Science:

    • Medical Imaging
    • Artificial Intelligence
    • Cardiovascular Disease Research

    Background:

    • Accurate left atrium (LA) segmentation in cardiac MRI is crucial for diagnosing cardiovascular diseases and planning atrial fibrillation (AF) ablation therapy.
    • Manual segmentation is time-consuming and suffers from inter-observer variability, necessitating automated solutions.
    • Class-agnostic foundation models offer feature extraction but may lack medical domain specificity, potentially reducing spatial resolution for fine anatomical details.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To develop and validate an automated segmentation framework for left atrium (LA) in cardiac MRI.
    • To enhance segmentation accuracy by integrating a foundation model (DINOv2) with a UNet-style decoder and multi-scale feature fusion.
    • To address the limitations of reduced spatial resolution in foundation models for medical imaging tasks.

    Main Methods:

    • Proposed a segmentation framework combining DINOv2 as an encoder with a UNet-style decoder.
    • Incorporated multi-scale feature fusion and input image reintroduction during decoding to preserve high-resolution details.
    • Implemented a learnable weighting mechanism to dynamically prioritize hierarchical features from DINOv2 encoder blocks.

    Main Results:

    • Achieved a Dice score of 92.3% and an IoU score of 84.1% for the giant architecture on the LAScarQS 2022 dataset.
    • Demonstrated superior performance compared to the nnUNet baseline model.
    • Validated the framework's efficacy in improving automated left atrium segmentation from cardiac MRI.

    Conclusions:

    • The proposed framework effectively enhances automated left atrium segmentation accuracy in cardiac MRI.
    • Integration of foundation models with domain-specific adaptations shows significant promise for medical image analysis.
    • This approach advances the diagnosis and management of cardiovascular diseases, particularly AF, through improved imaging analysis.