Segmentation of the entire aorta and true-false lumen is crucial to inform plan and follow-up for endovascular repair of the rare yet life threatening type B aortic dissection. Manual segmentation by slice is time-consuming and requires expertise, while current computer-aided methods focus on the segmentation of the entire aorta, are unable to concurrently segment true-false lumen, and some require human interaction. We here report a fully automated approach based on a 3-D multi-task deep convolutional neural network that segments the entire aorta and true-false lumen from CTA images in a unified framework. For training, we built a database containing 254 CTA images (210 preoperative and 44 postoperative) obtained using various systems from 254 unique patients with type B aortic dissection. Slice-wise manual segmentation of the entire aorta and the true-false lumen for each 3-D CTA image was provided. Upon evaluation of another 16 CTA images (11 preoperative and 5 postoperative) with ground truth segmentation provided by experienced vascular surgeons, our method achieves a mean dice similarity score(DSC) of 0.910,0.849 and 0.821 for the entire aorta,true lumen and false lumen respectively.
@article{arxiv.1806.09860,
title = {Multi-Task Deep Convolutional Neural Network for the Segmentation of Type B Aortic Dissection},
author = {Jianning Li and Long Cao and Yangyang Ge and W. Cheng and M. Bowen and G. Wei},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1806.09860},
year = {2019}
}
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