@article{Li:2020:10.1016/j.media.2019.101595,
author = {Li, L and Wu, F and Yang, G and Xu, L and Wong, T and Mohiaddin, R and Firmin, D and Keegan, J and Zhuang, X},
doi = {10.1016/j.media.2019.101595},
journal = {Medical Image Analysis},
title = {Atrial scar quantification via multi-scale CNN in the graph-cuts framework},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.media.2019.101595},
volume = {60},
year = {2020}
}

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AB  - Late gadolinium enhancement magnetic resonance imaging (LGE MRI) appears to be a promising alternative for scarassessment in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF). Automating the quantification and analysis of atrial scars can bechallenging due to the low image quality. In this work, we propose a fully automated method based on the graph-cutsframework, where the potentials of the graph are learned on a surface mesh of the left atrium (LA) using a multi-scaleconvolutional neural network (MS-CNN). For validation, we have included fifty-eight images with manual delineations.MS-CNN, which can efficiently incorporate both the local and global texture information of the images, has been shownto evidently improve the segmentation accuracy of the proposed graph-cuts based method. The segmentation could befurther improved when the contribution between the t-link and n-link weights of the graph is balanced. The proposedmethod achieves a mean accuracy of 0.856 ± 0.033 and mean Dice score of 0.702 ± 0.071 for LA scar quantification.Compared to the conventional methods, which are based on the manual delineation of LA for initialization, our methodis fully automatic and has demonstrated significantly better Dice score and accuracy (p < 0.01). The method is promisingand can be potentially useful in diagnosis and prognosis of AF.
AU  - Li,L
AU  - Wu,F
AU  - Yang,G
AU  - Xu,L
AU  - Wong,T
AU  - Mohiaddin,R
AU  - Firmin,D
AU  - Keegan,J
AU  - Zhuang,X
DO  - 10.1016/j.media.2019.101595
PY  - 2020///
SN  - 1361-8415
TI  - Atrial scar quantification via multi-scale CNN in the graph-cuts framework
T2  - Medical Image Analysis
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.media.2019.101595
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/74342
VL  - 60
ER  - 

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