TY - GEN
T1 - Automatic segmentation of the left ventricle in cardiac CT angiography using convolutional neural networks
AU - Zreik, M
AU - Leiner, Tim
AU - De Vos, Bob D.
AU - Van Hamersvelt, Robbert W.
AU - Viergever, Max A.
AU - Isgum, Ivana
PY - 2016/6/15
Y1 - 2016/6/15
N2 - Accurate delineation of the left ventricle (LV) is an important step in evaluation of cardiac function. In this paper, we present an automatic method for segmentation of the LV in cardiac CT angiography (CCTA) scans. Segmentation is performed in two stages. First, a bounding box around the LV is detected using a combination of three convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Subsequently, to obtain the segmentation of the LV, voxel classification is performed within the defined bounding box using a CNN. The study included CCTA scans of sixty patients, fifty scans were used to train the CNNs for the LV localization, five scans were used to train LV segmentation and the remaining five scans were used for testing the method. Automatic segmentation resulted in the average Dice coefficient of 0.85 and mean absolute surface distance of 1.1 mm. The results demonstrate that automatic segmentation of the LV in CCTA scans using voxel classification with convolutional neural networks is feasible.
AB - Accurate delineation of the left ventricle (LV) is an important step in evaluation of cardiac function. In this paper, we present an automatic method for segmentation of the LV in cardiac CT angiography (CCTA) scans. Segmentation is performed in two stages. First, a bounding box around the LV is detected using a combination of three convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Subsequently, to obtain the segmentation of the LV, voxel classification is performed within the defined bounding box using a CNN. The study included CCTA scans of sixty patients, fifty scans were used to train the CNNs for the LV localization, five scans were used to train LV segmentation and the remaining five scans were used for testing the method. Automatic segmentation resulted in the average Dice coefficient of 0.85 and mean absolute surface distance of 1.1 mm. The results demonstrate that automatic segmentation of the LV in CCTA scans using voxel classification with convolutional neural networks is feasible.
KW - Cardiac CT Angiography
KW - Classification
KW - Convolutional Neural Network
KW - Deep learning
KW - Left ventricle segmentation
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84978397862&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/ISBI.2016.7493206
DO - 10.1109/ISBI.2016.7493206
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84978397862
SN - 9781479923502
SN - 978-1-4799-2349-6
T3 - Proceedings / IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: from nano to macro. IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging
SP - 40
EP - 43
BT - 2016 IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro, ISBI 2016 - Proceedings
PB - IEEE Computer Society Press
T2 - 2016 IEEE 13th International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro, ISBI 2016
Y2 - 13 April 2016 through 16 April 2016
ER -