Multi-residual 2D network integrating spatial correlation for whole heart segmentation

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Whole heart segmentation (WHS) has significant clinical value for cardiac anatomy, modeling, and analysis of cardiac function. This study aims to address the WHS accuracy on cardiac CT images, as well as the fast inference speed and low graphics processing unit (GPU) memory consumption required by practical clinical applications. Thus, we propose a multi-residual two-dimensional (2D) network integrating spatial correlation for WHS. The network performs slice-by-slice segmentation on three-dimensional cardiac CT images in a 2D encoder-decoder manner. In the network, a convolutional long short-term memory skip connection module is designed to perform spatial correlation feature extraction on the feature maps at different resolutions extracted by the sub-modules of the pre-trained ResNet-based encoder. Moreover, a decoder based on the multi-residual module is designed to analyze the extracted features from the perspectives of multi-scale and channel attention, thereby accurately delineating the various substructures of the heart. The proposed method is verified on a dataset of the multi-modality WHS challenge, an in-house WHS dataset, and a dataset of the abdominal organ segmentation challenge. The dice, Jaccard, average symmetric surface distance, Hausdorff distance, inference time, and maximum GPU memory of the WHS are 0.914, 0.843, 1.066 mm, 15.778 mm, 9.535 s, and 1905 MB, respectively. The proposed network has high accuracy, fast inference speed, minimal GPU memory consumption, strong robustness, and good generalization. It can be deployed to clinical practical applications for WHS and can be effectively extended and applied to other multi-organ segmentation fields. The source code is publicly available at https://github.com/nancy1984yan/MultiResNet-SC.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:172

Enthalten in:

Computers in biology and medicine - 172(2024) vom: 20. März, Seite 108261

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Huang, Yan [VerfasserIn]
Yang, Jinzhu [VerfasserIn]
Sun, Qi [VerfasserIn]
Yuan, Yuliang [VerfasserIn]
Li, Honghe [VerfasserIn]
Hou, Yang [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

2D network
CT images
Journal Article
Multi-organ segmentation
Spatial correlation
Whole heart segmentation

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Date Completed 26.03.2024

Date Revised 26.03.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.compbiomed.2024.108261

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM369976347