Effective Algorithm for Left Ventricle Segmentation in MRI

Abstract

The short-axis left ventricle segmentation of Cine MRI is a representative imaging analysis used as a medical care. It is difficult to obtain the same segmentation results when performing image analysis with a human hand. Time and effort are being consumed due to different segmentation results. The algorithm consists of two deep learning models proposed in this paper, it provides saving time and effort and also obtain same segmentation results always. The first model uses the selective search to detect the region of interest from irrespective size of image and obtain the center point of left ventricle by deep learning. The second model consists of applying coordinate transformation to the image and finding the boundary of the endocardium and epicardium by deep learning. The number of patients used was 24, and totally 194 slices of Cine MRI were used. Among them, 19 were used for training and 5 were used for testing. deep learning for short-axis left ventricle segmentation and other algorithms were used to solve the problem, based on the analysis of the experimental results, we identify the problems and show the possibility.