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Cardiovascular diseases are among the leading causes of death globally. Cardiac left ventricle (LV) quantification is known to be one of the most important tasks for the identification and diagnosis of such pathologies. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-27 Alejandro Debus , Enzo Ferrante

Segmentation and measurement of cardiac chambers is critical in cardiac ultrasound but is laborious and poorly reproducible. Neural networks can assist, but supervised approaches require the same laborious manual annotations. We built a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-24 Danielle L. Ferreira , Connor Lau , Zaynaf Salaymang , Rima Arnaout

Purpose: Myocardium segmentation in echocardiography videos is a challenging task due to low contrast, noise, and anatomical variability. Traditional deep learning models either process frames independently, ignoring temporal information,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Bahar Khodabakhshian , Nima Hashemi , Armin Saadat , Zahra Gholami , In-Chang Hwang , Samira Sojoudi , Christina Luong , Purang Abolmaesumi , Teresa Tsang

Cardio-cerebrovascular diseases are the leading causes of mortality worldwide, whose accurate blood vessel segmentation is significant for both scientific research and clinical usage. However, segmenting cardio-cerebrovascular structures…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-03 Nazik Elsayed , Yousuf Babiker M. Osman , Cheng Li , Jiong Zhang , Shanshan Wang

Precise segmentation of the left ventricle (LV) within cardiac MRI images is a prerequisite for the quantitative measurement of heart function. However, this task is challenging due to the limited availability of labeled data and motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-31 Yuanhan Mo , Fangde Liu , Douglas McIlwraith , Guang Yang , Jingqing Zhang , Taigang He , Yike Guo

Automated segmentation of Cardiac Magnetic Resonance (CMR) plays a pivotal role in efficiently assessing cardiac function, offering rapid clinical evaluations that benefit both healthcare practitioners and patients. While recent research…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-14 Abdul Qayyum , Hao Xu , Brian P. Halliday , Cristobal Rodero , Christopher W. Lanyon , Richard D. Wilkinson , Steven Alexander Niederer

Medical image segmentation is one of the important tasks of computer-aided diagnosis in medical image analysis. Since most medical images have the characteristics of blurred boundaries and uneven intensity distribution, through existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Sixing Yin , Yameng Han , Shufang Li

Accurate segmentation is essential for echocardiography-based assessment of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs). However, the variability among sonographers and the inherent challenges of ultrasound images hinder precise segmentation. By…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Rabin Adhikari , Manish Dhakal , Safal Thapaliya , Kanchan Poudel , Prasiddha Bhandari , Bishesh Khanal

Left ventricular (LV) function is an important factor in terms of patient management, outcome, and long-term survival of patients with heart disease. The most recently published clinical guidelines for heart failure recognise that over…

Segmentation of the heart in cardiac cine MR is clinically used to quantify cardiac function. We propose a fully automatic method for segmentation and disease classification using cardiac cine MR images. A convolutional neural network (CNN)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-04 Jelmer M. Wolterink , Tim Leiner , Max A. Viergever , Ivana Isgum

Background: Cardiac MRI derived biventricular mass and function parameters, such as end-systolic volume (ESV), end-diastolic volume (EDV), ejection fraction (EF), stroke volume (SV), and ventricular mass (VM) are clinically well…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-15 Hinrich B Winther , Christian Hundt , Bertil Schmidt , Christoph Czerner , Johann Bauersachs , Frank Wacker , Jens Vogel-Claussen

Objective: This paper proposes a novel approach for automatic left ventricle (LV) quantification using convolutional neural networks (CNN). Methods: The general framework consists of one CNN for detecting the LV, and another for tissue…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-17 Ariel H. Curiale , Flavio D. Colavecchia , German Mato

Quantitative assessment of left ventricle (LV) function from cine MRI has significant diagnostic and prognostic value for cardiovascular disease patients. The temporal movement of LV provides essential information on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-23 Wenjun Yan , Yuanyuan Wang , Zeju Li , Rob J. van der Geest , Qian Tao

Nowadays, cardiac diagnosis largely depends on left ventricular function assessment. With the help of the segmentation deep learning model, the assessment of the left ventricle becomes more accessible and accurate. However, deep learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Hang Duong Thi Thuy , Tuan Nguyen Minh , Phi Nguyen Van , Long Tran Quoc

Blood vessel segmentation is a core task in medical image analysis for the care of vascular diseases and surgical planning, yet the challenges of providing expert vascular annotations pose a major obstacle for the progress of related deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Erin Rainville , Melissa Ananian , Tristan Mirolla , Hassan Rivaz , Yiming Xiao

Multi-view echocardiographic sequences segmentation is crucial for clinical diagnosis. However, this task is challenging due to limited labeled data, huge noise, and large gaps across views. Here we propose a recurrent aggregation learning…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-29 Ming Li , Weiwei Zhang , Guang Yang , Chengjia Wang , Heye Zhang , Huafeng Liu , Wei Zheng , Shuo Li

Automatic segmentation of the heart cavity is an essential task for the diagnosis of cardiac diseases. In this paper, we propose a semi-supervised segmentation setup for leveraging unlabeled data to segment Left-ventricle, Right-ventricle,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-23 Mahyar Bolhassani , Ilkay Oksuz

The echocardiographic measurement of left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) is fundamental to the diagnosis and classification of patients with heart failure (HF). In order to quantify LVEF automatically and accurately, this paper…

Automatic and accurate whole-heart and great vessel segmentation from 3D cardiac magnetic resonance (MR) images plays an important role in the computer-assisted diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular disease. However, this task is very…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-03 Lequan Yu , Jie-Zhi Cheng , Qi Dou , Xin Yang , Hao Chen , Jing Qin , Pheng-Ann Heng

Left ventricular non-compaction (LVNC) is a rare cardiomyopathy characterized by abnormal trabeculations in the left ventricle cavity. Although traditional computer vision approaches exist for LVNC diagnosis, deep learning-based tools could…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-01 Jesús M. Rodríguez-de-Vera , Josefa González-Carrillo , José M. García , Gregorio Bernabé