3D Cardiac Substructures Segmentation from CMRI using Generative Adversarial Network (GAN)

Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2022 Jul:2022:1698-1701. doi: 10.1109/EMBC48229.2022.9871950.

Abstract

Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMRI) improves the diagnosis of cardiovascular diseases by providing images at high spatio-temporal resolution helping physicians in providing correct treatment plans. Segmentation and identification of various substructures of the heart at different cardiac phases of end-systole and end-diastole helps in the extraction of ventricular function information such as stroke volume, ejection fraction, myocardium thickness, etc. Manual delineation of the substructures is tedious, time-consuming, and error-prone. We have implemented a 3D GAN that includes 3D contextual information capable of segmenting and identifying the substructures at different cardiac phases with improved accuracy. Our method is evaluated on the ACDC dataset (4 pathologies, 1 healthy group) to show that the proposed out-performs other methods in literature with less amount of data. Also, the proposed provided a better Dice score in segmentation surpassing other methods on a blind-tested M&Ms dataset.

MeSH terms

  • Cardiovascular Diseases*
  • Heart* / diagnostic imaging
  • Humans
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Stroke Volume
  • Ventricular Function