Summary of An Improved Approach For Cardiac Mri Segmentation Based on 3d Unet Combined with Papillary Muscle Exclusion, by Narjes Benameur et al.
An Improved Approach for Cardiac MRI Segmentation based on 3D UNet Combined with Papillary Muscle Exclusion
by Narjes Benameur, Ramzi Mahmoudi, Mohamed Deriche, Amira fayouka, Imene Masmoudi, Nessrine Zoghlami
First submitted to arxiv on: 9 Oct 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG); Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper introduces an improved 3D UNet model for segmenting the myocardium and left ventricle (LV) structure at end diastole and systole phases. The algorithm is designed to exclude papillary muscles, as recommended by the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance. To test the framework’s performance, the authors analyzed 8,400 cardiac MRI images from two datasets: the military hospital in Tunis (HMPIT) and the ACDC public dataset. The proposed model achieved a Dice coefficient of 0.965 and 0.945 at end diastole and systole phases, respectively, and an F1 score of 0.801 and 0.799. Clinical evaluation outcomes revealed significant differences in left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) and other clinical parameters when papillary muscles were included or excluded. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper aims to improve the accuracy of estimating left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) by developing a robust algorithm for segmenting the heart structure. They use a special type of AI model called 3D UNet to do this job. To test their approach, they used many cardiac MRI images from two different sources. The results show that their method works well and is accurate enough to be useful in medical settings. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » F1 score » Unet
