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Bui V, Shanbhag SM, Levine O, Jacobs M, Bandettini WP, Chang LC, Chen MY, Hsu LY. Simultaneous Multi-Structure Segmentation of the Heart and Peripheral Tissues in Contrast Enhanced Cardiac Computed Tomography Angiography. IEEE ACCESS : PRACTICAL INNOVATIONS, OPEN SOLUTIONS 2020; 8:16187-16202. [PMID: 33747668 PMCID: PMC7971052 DOI: 10.1109/access.2020.2966985] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
Abstract
Contrast enhanced cardiac computed tomography angiography (CTA) is a prominent imaging modality for diagnosing cardiovascular diseases non-invasively. It assists the evaluation of the coronary artery patency and provides a comprehensive assessment of structural features of the heart and great vessels. However, physicians are often required to evaluate different cardiac structures and measure their size manually. Such task is very time-consuming and tedious due to the large number of image slices in 3D data. We present a fully automatic method based on a combined multi-atlas and corrective segmentation approach to label the heart and its associated cardiovascular structures. This method also automatically separates other surrounding intrathoracic structures from CTA images. Quantitative assessment of the proposed method is performed on 36 studies with a reference standard obtained from expert manual segmentation of various cardiac structures. Qualitative evaluation is also performed by expert readers to score 120 studies of the automatic segmentation. The quantitative results showed an overall Dice of 0.93, Hausdorff distance of 7.94 mm, and mean surface distance of 1.03 mm between automatically and manually segmented cardiac structures. The visual assessment also attained an excellent score for the automatic segmentation. The average processing time was 2.79 minutes. Our results indicate the proposed automatic framework significantly improves accuracy and computational speed in conventional multi-atlas based approach, and it provides comprehensive and reliable multi-structural segmentation of CTA images that is valuable for clinical application.
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Affiliation(s)
- Vy Bui
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
- Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Catholic University of America, Washington DC, USA
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- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
- Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA
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- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
- Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Catholic University of America, Washington DC, USA
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- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Catholic University of America, Washington DC, USA
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- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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Khalil A, Ng SC, Liew YM, Lai KW. An Overview on Image Registration Techniques for Cardiac Diagnosis and Treatment. Cardiol Res Pract 2018; 2018:1437125. [PMID: 30159169 PMCID: PMC6109558 DOI: 10.1155/2018/1437125] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/08/2018] [Revised: 07/05/2018] [Accepted: 07/17/2018] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Image registration has been used for a wide variety of tasks within cardiovascular imaging. This study aims to provide an overview of the existing image registration methods to assist researchers and impart valuable resource for studying the existing methods or developing new methods and evaluation strategies for cardiac image registration. For the cardiac diagnosis and treatment strategy, image registration and fusion can provide complementary information to the physician by using the integrated image from these two modalities. This review also contains a description of various imaging techniques to provide an appreciation of the problems associated with implementing image registration, particularly for cardiac pathology intervention and treatments.
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Affiliation(s)
- Azira Khalil
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- Faculty of Science and Technology, Islamic Science University of Malaysia, 71800 Nilai, Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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