PURPOSE: Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), specifically late-enhanced MRI, is the standard clinical imaging protocol to assess cardiac viability. Segmentation of myocardial walls is a prerequisite for this assessment. Automatic and robust multisequence segmentation is required to support processing massive quantities of data. METHODS: A generic rule-based framework to automatically segment the left ventricle myocardium is presented here. We use intensity information, and include shape and interslice smoothness constraints, providing robustness to subject- and study-specific changes. Our automatic initialization considers the geometrical and appearance properties of the left ventricle, as well as interslice information. The segmentation algorithm uses a decoupled, modified graph cut approach with control points, providing a good balance between flexibility and robustness. RESULTS: The method was evaluated on late-enhanced MRI images from a 20-patient in-house database, and on cine-MRI images from a 15-patient open access database, both using as reference manually delineated contours. Segmentation agreement, measured using the Dice coefficient, was 0.81±0.05 and 0.92±0.04 for late-enhanced MRI and cine-MRI, respectively. The method was also compared favorably to a three-dimensional Active Shape Model approach. CONCLUSION: The experimental validation with two magnetic resonance sequences demonstrates increased accuracy and versatility.
PURPOSE: Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), specifically late-enhanced MRI, is the standard clinical imaging protocol to assess cardiac viability. Segmentation of myocardial walls is a prerequisite for this assessment. Automatic and robust multisequence segmentation is required to support processing massive quantities of data. METHODS: A generic rule-based framework to automatically segment the left ventricle myocardium is presented here. We use intensity information, and include shape and interslice smoothness constraints, providing robustness to subject- and study-specific changes. Our automatic initialization considers the geometrical and appearance properties of the left ventricle, as well as interslice information. The segmentation algorithm uses a decoupled, modified graph cut approach with control points, providing a good balance between flexibility and robustness. RESULTS: The method was evaluated on late-enhanced MRI images from a 20-patient in-house database, and on cine-MRI images from a 15-patient open access database, both using as reference manually delineated contours. Segmentation agreement, measured using the Dice coefficient, was 0.81±0.05 and 0.92±0.04 for late-enhanced MRI and cine-MRI, respectively. The method was also compared favorably to a three-dimensional Active Shape Model approach. CONCLUSION: The experimental validation with two magnetic resonance sequences demonstrates increased accuracy and versatility.
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