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Multiview Two-Task Recursive Attention Model for Left Atrium and Atrial Scars Segmentation

2018; Springer Science+Business Media; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/978-3-030-00934-2_51

1611-3349

Jun Chen, Guang Yang, Zhifan Gao, Hao Ni, Elsa D. Angelini, Raad Mohiaddin, Tom Wong, Yanping Zhang, Xiuquan Du, Heye Zhang, Jennifer Keegan, David Firmin,

Advanced X-ray and CT Imaging

Late Gadolinium Enhanced Cardiac MRI (LGE-CMRI) for detecting atrial scars in atrial fibrillation (AF) patients has recently emerged as a promising technique to stratify patients, guide ablation therapy and predict treatment success. Visualisation and quantification of scar tissues require a segmentation of both the left atrium (LA) and the high intensity scar regions from LGE-CMRI images. These two segmentation tasks are challenging due to the cancelling of healthy tissue signal, low signal-to-noise ratio and often limited image quality in these patients. Most approaches require manual supervision and/or a second bright-blood MRI acquisition for anatomical segmentation. Segmenting both the LA anatomy and the scar tissues automatically from a single LGE-CMRI acquisition is highly in demand. In this study, we proposed a novel fully automated multiview two-task (MVTT) recursive attention model working directly on LGE-CMRI images that combines a sequential learning and a dilated residual learning to segment the LA (including attached pulmonary veins) and delineate the atrial scars simultaneously via an innovative attention model. Compared to other state-of-the-art methods, the proposed MVTT achieves compelling improvement, enabling to generate a patient-specific anatomical and atrial scar assessment model.