Automated cardiovascular magnetic resonance image analysis with fully convolutional networks.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Cardiovascular resonance (CMR) imaging is a standard imaging modality for assessing cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), the leading cause of death globally. CMR enables accurate quantification of the cardiac chamber volume, ejection fraction and myocardial mass, providing information for diagnosis and monitoring of CVDs. However, for years, clinicians have been relying on manual approaches for CMR image analysis, which is time consuming and prone to subjective errors. It is a major clinical challenge to automatically derive quantitative and clinically relevant information from CMR images.

Methods

Deep neural networks have shown a great potential in image pattern recognition and segmentation for a variety of tasks. Here we demonstrate an automated analysis method for C

SUBMITTER: Bai W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6138894 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature