Automatic cardiac evaluations using a deep video object segmentation network

Autor: Nasim Sirjani, Shakiba Moradi, Mostafa Ghelich Oghli, Ali Hosseinsabet, Azin Alizadehasl, Mona Yadollahi, Isaac Shiri, Ali Shabanzadeh
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
Předmět:
Zdroj: Insights into Imaging, Vol 13, Iss 1, Pp 1-14 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1869-4101
DOI: 10.1186/s13244-022-01212-9
Popis: Abstract Background Accurate cardiac volume and function assessment have valuable and significant diagnostic implications for patients suffering from ventricular dysfunction and cardiovascular disease. This study has focused on finding a reliable assistant to help physicians have more reliable and accurate cardiac measurements using a deep neural network. EchoRCNN is a semi-automated neural network for echocardiography sequence segmentation using a combination of mask region-based convolutional neural network image segmentation structure with reference-guided mask propagation video object segmentation network. Results The proposed method accurately segments the left and right ventricle regions in four-chamber view echocardiography series with a dice similarity coefficient of 94.03% and 94.97%, respectively. Further post-processing procedures on the segmented left and right ventricle regions resulted in a mean absolute error of 3.13% and 2.03% for ejection fraction and fractional area change parameters, respectively. Conclusion This study has achieved excellent performance on the left and right ventricle segmentation, leading to more accurate estimations of vital cardiac parameters such as ejection fraction and fractional area change parameters in the left and right ventricle functionalities, respectively. The results represent that our method can predict an assured, accurate, and reliable cardiac function diagnosis in clinical screenings.
Databáze: Directory of Open Access Journals
Nepřihlášeným uživatelům se plný text nezobrazuje