TY - GEN
T1 - Whole heart segmentation of cardiac MRI using multiple path propagation strategy
AU - Zhuang, X.
AU - Leung, K.
AU - Rhode, K.
AU - Razavi, R.
AU - Hawkes, D.
AU - Ourselin, S.
PY - 2010/11/22
Y1 - 2010/11/22
N2 - Automatic segmentation of cardiac MRI is an important but challenging task in clinical study of cardiac morphology. Recently, fusing segmentations from multiple classifiers has been shown to achieve more accurate results than a single classifier. In this work, we propose a new strategy, MUltiple Path Propagation and Segmentation (MUPPS), in contrast with the currently widely used multi-atlas propagation and segmentation (MAPS) scheme. We showed that MUPPS outperformed the standard MAPS in the experiment using twenty-one in vivo cardiac MR images. Furthermore, we studied and compared different path selection strategies for the MUPPS, to pursue an efficient implementation of the segmentation framework. We showed that the path ranking scheme using the image similarity after an affine registration converged faster and only needed eleven classifiers from the atlas repository. The fusion of eleven propagation results using the proposed path ranking scheme achieved a mean Dice score of 0.911 in the whole heart segmentation and the highest gain of accuracy was obtained from myocardium segmentation.
AB - Automatic segmentation of cardiac MRI is an important but challenging task in clinical study of cardiac morphology. Recently, fusing segmentations from multiple classifiers has been shown to achieve more accurate results than a single classifier. In this work, we propose a new strategy, MUltiple Path Propagation and Segmentation (MUPPS), in contrast with the currently widely used multi-atlas propagation and segmentation (MAPS) scheme. We showed that MUPPS outperformed the standard MAPS in the experiment using twenty-one in vivo cardiac MR images. Furthermore, we studied and compared different path selection strategies for the MUPPS, to pursue an efficient implementation of the segmentation framework. We showed that the path ranking scheme using the image similarity after an affine registration converged faster and only needed eleven classifiers from the atlas repository. The fusion of eleven propagation results using the proposed path ranking scheme achieved a mean Dice score of 0.911 in the whole heart segmentation and the highest gain of accuracy was obtained from myocardium segmentation.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84863298187&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-15705-9_53
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-15705-9_53
M3 - Conference contribution
C2 - 20879260
AN - SCOPUS:84863298187
SN - 3642157041
SN - 9783642157042
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 435
EP - 443
BT - Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI2010 - 13th International Conference, Proceedings
T2 - 13th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2010
Y2 - 20 September 2010 through 24 September 2010
ER -