Coronary Wall Segmentation in CCTA Scans via a Hybrid Net with Contours Regularization

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2002.12263v1
• Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2020 17:06:58 GMT
• Title: Coronary Wall Segmentation in CCTA Scans via a Hybrid Net with Contours Regularization
• Authors: Kaikai Huang and Antonio Tejero-de-Pablos and Hiroaki Yamane and Yusuke Kurose and Junichi Iho and Youji Tokunaga and Makoto Horie and Keisuke Nishizawa and Yusaku Hayashi and Yasushi Koyama and Tatsuya Harada
• Abstract summary: We propose a novel boundary detection method for coronary arteries. Our method can produce smooth closed boundaries outperforming the state-of-the-art accuracy.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Providing closed and well-connected boundaries of coronary artery is essential to assist cardiologists in the diagnosis of coronary artery disease (CAD). Recently, several deep learning-based methods have been proposed for boundary detection and segmentation in a medical image. However, when applied to coronary wall detection, they tend to produce disconnected and inaccurate boundaries. In this paper, we propose a novel boundary detection method for coronary arteries that focuses on the continuity and connectivity of the boundaries. In order to model the spatial continuity of consecutive images, our hybrid architecture takes a volume (i.e., a segment of the coronary artery) as input and detects the boundary of the target slice (i.e., the central slice of the segment). Then, to ensure closed boundaries, we propose a contour-constrained weighted Hausdorff distance loss. We evaluate our method on a dataset of 34 patients of coronary CT angiography scans with curved planar reconstruction (CCTA-CPR) of the arteries (i.e., cross-sections). Experiment results show that our method can produce smooth closed boundaries outperforming the state-of-the-art accuracy.

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