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  • Multi-Views Fusion CNN for ...
    Luo, Gongning; Dong, Suyu; Wang, Kuanquan; Zuo, Wangmeng; Cao, Shaodong; Zhang, Henggui

    IEEE transactions on biomedical engineering, 09/2018, Letnik: 65, Številka: 9
    Journal Article

    Objective: Left ventricular (LV) volume estimation is a critical procedure for cardiac disease diagnosis. The objective of this paper is to address a direct LV volume prediction task. Methods: In this paper, we propose a direct volume prediction method based on the end-to-end deep convolutional neural networks. We study the end-to-end LV volume prediction method in items of the data preprocessing, network structure, and multiview fusion strategy. The main contributions of this paper are the following aspects. First, we propose a new data preprocessing method on cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR). Second, we propose a new network structure for end-to-end LV volume estimation. Third, we explore the representational capacity of different slices and propose a fusion strategy to improve the prediction accuracy. Results: The evaluation results show that the proposed method outperforms other state-of-the-art LV volume estimation methods on the open accessible benchmark datasets. The clinical indexes derived from the predicted volumes agree well with the ground truth (EDV:R 2 = 0.974, RMSE = 9.6 ml; ESV:R 2 = 0.976, RMSE = 7.1 ml; EF:R 2 = 0.828, RMSE = 4.71%). Conclusion: Experimental results prove that the proposed method may be useful for the LV volume prediction task. Significance: The proposed method not only has application potential for cardiac diseases screening for large-scale CMR data, but also can be extended to other medical image research fields.