Title : ( Segmentation of Cardiac Chambers in 2D Echocardiographic Images by Using a New Atlas-Based Deformable Model )
Authors: Mahdi Saadatmand , Elham Fathipour , Alireza Noei Sarcheshmeh ,Access to full-text not allowed by authors
Abstract
Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are considered as the main reason of mortality around the world. Echocardiography is the most common imaging modality for diagnosis or treatment follow-up of CVDs. However, because of speckle-noise corruption and low resolution, segmentation of heart chambers in echo-images is a challenging endeavor. We previously proposed a probabilistic atlas as a prior model for the heart chambers in echo-images. In this paper, we propose a new active contour for the segmentation of cardiac chambers by using that digital atlas. Our deformable model effectively combines the global and local (patch-based) region-based energy functionals. Also, to extract all the cardiac chambers, we determine four active contours in every echo-image (one contour for each chamber in the four-chamber view). For simultaneously evolving all the curves, a coupling term is also added to the energy functional. Finally, the evolution equation of each active contour is computed through the Euler-Lagrange equation. Experimental results demonstrate that our method provides accurate solutions compared to expert delineations.
Keywords
, Echocardiography Images; Image Segmentation; Active Contours, Medical Atlases@inproceedings{paperid:1082687,
author = {Saadatmand, Mahdi and Fathipour, Elham and Noei Sarcheshmeh, Alireza},
title = {Segmentation of Cardiac Chambers in 2D Echocardiographic Images by Using a New Atlas-Based Deformable Model},
booktitle = {4th Conference on Swarm Intelligence and Evolutionary Computation},
year = {2020},
location = {مشهد, IRAN},
keywords = {Echocardiography Images; Image Segmentation; Active Contours; Medical Atlases},
}
%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Segmentation of Cardiac Chambers in 2D Echocardiographic Images by Using a New Atlas-Based Deformable Model
%A Saadatmand, Mahdi
%A Fathipour, Elham
%A Noei Sarcheshmeh, Alireza
%J 4th Conference on Swarm Intelligence and Evolutionary Computation
%D 2020