Right ventricular endocardial segmentation in CMR images using a novel inter-modality statistical shape modelling approach

Concetta Piazzese*, M. Chiara Carminati, Rolf Krause, Angelo Auricchio, Lynn Weinert, Gloria Tamborini, Mauro Pepi, Roberto M. Lang, Enrico G. Caiani

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Statistical shape modelling (SSM) approaches have been proposed as a powerful tool to segment the left ventricle in cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) images. Our aim was to extend this method to segment the RV cavity in CMR images and validate it compared to the conventional gold-standard (GS) manual tracing. A SSM of the RV was built using a database of 4347 intrinsically 3D surfaces, extracted from transthoracic 3D echo cardiographic (3DE) images of 219 retrospective patients. The SSM was then scaled and deformed on the base of some features extracted, with different strategies, from each short-axis plane until a stable condition was reached. The proposed approach, tested on 14 patients, resulted in a high correlation (r2=0.97) and narrow limits of agreement (± 17% error) when comparing the semiautomatic volumes to the GS, confirming the accuracy of this approach in segmenting the RV endocardium.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationComputing in Cardiology Conference, CinC 2016
EditorsAlan Murray
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages1-4
Number of pages4
ISBN (Electronic)9781509008964
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 1 2016
Event43rd Computing in Cardiology Conference, CinC 2016 - Vancouver, Canada
Duration: Sep 11 2016Sep 14 2016

Publication series

NameComputing in Cardiology
Volume43
ISSN (Print)2325-8861
ISSN (Electronic)2325-887X

Conference

Conference43rd Computing in Cardiology Conference, CinC 2016
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityVancouver
Period09/11/1609/14/16

Bibliographical note

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ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Computer Science
  • Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine

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