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GAN-enhanced Conditional Echocardiogram Generation

Image and Video Processing 2019-11-26 v2 Machine Learning Machine Learning

Abstract

Echocardiography (echo) is a common means of evaluating cardiac conditions. Due to the label scarcity, semi-supervised paradigms in automated echo analysis are getting traction. One of the most sought-after problems in echo is the segmentation of cardiac structures (e.g. chambers). Accordingly, we propose an echocardiogram generation approach using generative adversarial networks with a conditional patch-based discriminator. In this work, we validate the feasibility of GAN-enhanced echo generation with different conditions (segmentation masks), namely, the left ventricle, ventricular myocardium, and atrium. Results show that the proposed adversarial algorithm can generate high-quality echo frames whose cardiac structures match the given segmentation masks. This method is expected to facilitate the training of other machine learning models in a semi-supervised fashion as suggested in similar researches.

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@article{arxiv.1911.02121,
  title  = {GAN-enhanced Conditional Echocardiogram Generation},
  author = {Amir H. Abdi and Teresa Tsang and Purang Abolmaesumi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1911.02121},
  year   = {2019}
}

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Workshop of Medical Imaging Meets NeurIPS, NeurIPS 2019

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