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Segmenting the left atrial (LA) wall from late gadolinium enhancement magnetic resonance imaging (LGE-MRI) is challenging because of its thin geometry, low contrast, and limited expert annotations. We propose a model-agnostic meta-learning…

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Accurate cardiac computing, analysis and modeling from multi-modality images are important for the diagnosis and treatment of cardiac disease. Late gadolinium enhancement magnetic resonance imaging (LGE MRI) is a promising technique to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-10 Lei Li , Fuping Wu , Sihang Wang , Xiahai Zhuang

Segmentation of the left ventricle and quantification of various cardiac contractile functions is crucial for the timely diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular diseases. Traditionally, the two tasks have been tackled independently. Here…

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Segmentation of cardiac structures is one of the fundamental steps to estimate volumetric indices of the heart. This step is still performed semi-automatically in clinical routine, and is thus prone to inter- and intra-observer variability.…

Atrial Fibrillation (AF), the most common sustained cardiac arrhythmia worldwide, increasingly requires accurate bi-atrial structural assessment to guide ablation strategies, particularly in persistent AF. Late gadolinium-enhanced magnetic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-07 Malitha Gunawardhana , Mark L Trew , Gregory B Sands , Jichao Zhao

Cardiac left ventricular (LV) segmentation from short-axis MRI acquired 10 minutes after the injection of a contrast agent (LGE-MRI) is a necessary step in the processing allowing the identification and diagnosis of cardiac diseases such as…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-02 Abdul Qayyum , Alain Lalande , Thomas Decourselle , Thibaut Pommier , Alexandre Cochet , Fabrice Meriaudeau

Accurate left atrium (LA) segmentation from pre-operative scans is crucial for diagnosing atrial fibrillation, treatment planning, and supporting surgical interventions. While deep learning models are key in medical image segmentation, they…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-15 Bipasha Kundu , Bidur Khanal , Richard Simon , Cristian A. Linte

We report our multi-stage framework designed for the problem of multi-class bi-atrial segmentation from 3D late gadolinium-enhanced (LGE) MRI of the human heart. The pipeline consists of a preprocessing step using multidimensional contrast…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Hao Wen , Jingsu Kang

Accurate segmentation of the left atrium (LA) from late gadolinium-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging plays a vital role in visualizing diseased atrial structures, enabling the diagnosis and management of cardiovascular diseases. It is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Bipasha Kundu , Zixin Yang , Richard Simon , Cristian Linte

Late gadolinium enhancement magnetic resonance imaging (LGE MRI) appears to be a promising alternative for scar assessment in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF). Automating the quantification and analysis of atrial scars can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-22 Lei Li , Fuping Wu , Guang Yang , Lingchao Xu , Tom Wong , Raad Mohiaddin , David Firmin , Jennifer Keegan , Xiahai Zhuang

This study proposes a fully automated approach for the left atrial segmentation from routine cine long-axis cardiac magnetic resonance image sequences using deep convolutional neural networks and Bayesian filtering. The proposed approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Xiaoran Zhang , Michelle Noga , David Glynn Martin , Kumaradevan Punithakumar

The purpose of this study is to develop an automated algorithm for thoracic vertebral segmentation on chest radiography using deep learning. 124 de-identified lateral chest radiographs on unique patients were obtained. Segmentations of…

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Medical image segmentation of gadolinium enhancement magnetic resonance imaging (GE MRI) is an important task in clinical applications. However, manual annotation is time-consuming and requires specialized expertise. Semi-supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Yunsung Chung , Chanho Lim , Chao Huang , Nassir Marrouche , Jihun Hamm

Distributed learning has shown great potential in medical image analysis. It allows to use multi-center training data with privacy protection. However, data distributions in local centers can vary from each other due to different imaging…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-14 Zheyao Gao , Lei Li , Fuping Wu , Sihan Wang , Xiahai Zhuang

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common cardiac arrhythmia. Accurate segmentation of the left atrial (LA) and LA scars can provide valuable information to predict treatment outcomes in AF. In this paper, we proposed to automatically…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-28 Yuchen Zhang , Yanda Meng , Yalin Zheng

Accurate segmentation of the cardiac boundaries in late gadolinium enhancement magnetic resonance images (LGE-MRI) is a fundamental step for accurate quantification of scar tissue. However, while there are many solutions for automatic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-14 Víctor M. Campello , Carlos Martín-Isla , Cristian Izquierdo , Steffen E. Petersen , Miguel A. González Ballester , Karim Lekadir

Medical image analysis, especially segmenting a specific organ, has an important role in developing clinical decision support systems. In cardiac magnetic resonance (MR) imaging, segmenting the left and right ventricles helps physicians…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-23 Mina Nasr-Esfahani , Majid Mohrekesh , Mojtaba Akbari , S. M. Reza Soroushmehr , Ebrahim Nasr-Esfahani , Nader Karimi , Shadrokh Samavi , Kayvan Najarian

Image segmentation plays an essential role in medicine for both diagnostic and interventional tasks. Segmentation approaches are either manual, semi-automated or fully-automated. Manual segmentation offers full control over the quality of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-21 Tomas Sakinis , Fausto Milletari , Holger Roth , Panagiotis Korfiatis , Petro Kostandy , Kenneth Philbrick , Zeynettin Akkus , Ziyue Xu , Daguang Xu , Bradley J. Erickson

Left atrial (LA) and atrial scar segmentation from late gadolinium enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (LGE MRI) is an important task in clinical practice. %, to guide ablation therapy and predict treatment results for atrial fibrillation…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-15 Lei Li , Veronika A. Zimmer , Julia A. Schnabel , Xiahai Zhuang

Automated cardiac segmentation from magnetic resonance imaging datasets is an essential step in the timely diagnosis and management of cardiac pathologies. We propose to tackle the problem of automated left and right ventricle segmentation…

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