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The segmentation of the left ventricle of the heart from ultrasound data using deep learning architectures and derivative-based search methods

dc.contributor.authorCarneiro, G
dc.contributor.authorNascimento, J
dc.contributor.authorFreitas, A
dc.date.accessioned2014-02-13T17:42:15Z
dc.date.available2014-02-13T17:42:15Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.description.abstractWe present a new supervised learning model designed for the automatic segmentation of the left ventricle (LV) of the heart in ultrasound images. We address the following problems inherent to supervised learning models: 1) the need of a large set of training images; 2) robustness to imaging conditions not present in the training data; and 3) complex search process. The innovations of our approach reside in a formulation that decouples the rigid and nonrigid detections, deep learning methods that model the appearance of the LV, and efficient derivative-based search algorithms. The functionality of our approach is evaluated using a data set of diseased cases containing 400 annotated images (from 12 sequences) and another data set of normal cases comprising 80 annotated images (from two sequences), where both sets present long axis views of the LV. Using several error measures to compute the degree of similarity between the manual and automatic segmentations, we show that our method not only has high sensitivity and specificity but also presents variations with respect to a gold standard (computed from the manual annotations of two experts) within interuser variability on a subset of the diseased cases. We also compare the segmentations produced by our approach and by two state-of-the-art LV segmentation models on the data set of normal cases, and the results show that our approach produces segmentations that are comparable to these two approaches using only 20 training images and increasing the training set to 400 images causes our approach to be generally more accurate. Finally, we show that efficient search methods reduce up to tenfold the complexity of the method while still producing competitive segmentations. In the future, we plan to include a dynamical model to improve the performance of the algorithm, to use semisupervised learning methods to reduce even more the dependence on rich and large training sets, and to design a shape model less dependent on the training set.por
dc.identifier.citationIEEE Trans Image Process. 2012 Mar;21(3):968-82por
dc.identifier.issn1941-0042
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.10/1067
dc.language.isoengpor
dc.peerreviewedyespor
dc.publisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineerspor
dc.relation.publisherversionhttp://www.researchgate.net/publication/233794247_TIP_2012/file/d912f50b8e2d857c6a.pdf.por
dc.subjectHeart Ventriclespor
dc.subjectVentrículos do coraçãopor
dc.subjectLeft ventricular hypertrophy,por
dc.subjectHipertrofia ventricular esquerdapor
dc.subjectUltrasonographypor
dc.subjectUltrassonografiapor
dc.titleThe segmentation of the left ventricle of the heart from ultrasound data using deep learning architectures and derivative-based search methodspor
dc.typejournal article
dspace.entity.typePublication
oaire.citation.conferencePlaceNew Yorkpor
oaire.citation.endPage982por
oaire.citation.startPage968por
oaire.citation.titleIEEE Transactions on Image Processingpor
oaire.citation.volume21por
rcaap.rightsopenAccesspor
rcaap.typearticlepor

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