Myocardial Scar Segmentation In Lge-Mri Using Fractal Analysis And Random Forest Classification
2018 24TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PATTERN RECOGNITION (ICPR)(2018)
摘要
Late-gadolinium enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (LGE-MRI) is the clinical gold standard to visualize myocardial scarring. The gadolinium based contrast agent accumulates in the damaged cells and leads to various enhancements in the LGE-MRI scan. The quantification of the scar tissue is very important for diagnosis, treatment planning, and guidance during the procedure. In clinical routine, the scar is often segmented manually. However, manual segmentation is prone to inter-and intra-observer variability and very time consuming. In this work a new texture based scar quantification is proposed. For texture characterization, segmentation based fractal analysis is used. First, the image is decomposed into a set of binary images by applying a two-threshold binary decomposition. Second, a set of features are extracted for each of the binary images, namely the fractal dimension, the mean gray value, and the size of the binary object. In addition, the local and global intensity of each patch is added to the feature vector. In the next step, the features are classified using a random forest classifier. The scar quantification is evaluated on 30 clinical LGE-MRI data sets. In addition, the results are compared to the x-fold standard deviation approach and the full-width-at-half-max method, which are implemented in a fully automatic manner. The proposed scar quantification achieved a mean Dice coefficient of 0.64 +/- 0.17 and outperforms the x-fold standard deviation approach.
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intraobserver variability,interobserver variability,feature extraction,global intensity,local intensity,clinical LGE-MRI data sets,mean Dice coefficient,gadolinium based contrast agent,myocardial scarring,clinical gold standard,late-gadolinium enhanced magnetic resonance imaging,random forest classification,myocardial scar segmentation,random forest classifier,feature vector,binary object,mean gray value,fractal dimension,two-threshold binary decomposition,binary images,segmentation based fractal analysis,texture characterization,texture based scar quantification,manual segmentation,clinical routine,treatment planning,scar tissue,LGE-MRI scan,damaged cells
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