Data-driven feature learning for myocardial segmentation of CP-BOLD MRI

Anirban Mukhopadhyay, Ilkay Oksuz*, Marco Bevilacqua, Rohan Dharmakumar, Sotirios A. Tsaftaris

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Cardiac Phase-resolved Blood Oxygen-Level-Dependent (CP-BOLD) MR is capable of diagnosing an ongoing ischemia by detecting changes in myocardial intensity patterns at rest without any contrast and stress agents. Visualizing and detecting these changes require significant post-processing, including myocardial segmentation for isolating the myocardium. But, changes in myocardial intensity pattern and myocardial shape due to the heart’s motion challenge automated standard CINE MR myocardial segmentation techniques resulting in a significant drop of segmentation accuracy. We hypothesize that the main reason behind this phenomenon is the lack of discernible features. In this paper, a multi scale discriminative dictionary learning approach is proposed for supervised learning and sparse representation of the myocardium, to improve the myocardial feature selection. The technique is validated on a challenging dataset of CP-BOLD MR and standard CINE MR acquired in baseline and ischemic condition across 10 canine subjects. The proposed method significantly outperforms standard cardiac segmentation techniques, including segmentation via registration, level sets and supervised methods for myocardial segmentation.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationFunctional Imaging and Modeling of the Heart - 8th International Conference, FIMH 2015, Proceedings
EditorsHans van Assen, Peter Bovendeerd, Hans van Assen, Peter Bovendeerd, Tammo Delhaas, Tammo Delhaas
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages189-197
Number of pages9
ISBN (Print)9783319203089, 9783319203089
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2015
Externally publishedYes
Event8th International Conference on Functional Imaging and Modeling of the Heart, FIMH 2015 - Maastricht, Netherlands
Duration: 25 Jun 201527 Jun 2015

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume9126
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference8th International Conference on Functional Imaging and Modeling of the Heart, FIMH 2015
Country/TerritoryNetherlands
CityMaastricht
Period25/06/1527/06/15

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015.

Funding

This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health under Grant 2R01HL091989-05.

FundersFunder number
National Institutes of Health2R01HL091989-05

    Keywords

    • CINE MR
    • CP-BOLD MR
    • Dictionary learning
    • Segmentation

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