Cardiac segmentation with strong anatomical guarantees

N Painchaud, Y Skandarani, T Judge… - IEEE transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Convolutional neural networks (CNN) have had unprecedented success in medical imaging
and, in particular, in medical image segmentation. However, despite the fact that …

Generating synthetic labeled data from existing anatomical models: an example with echocardiography segmentation

A Gilbert, M Marciniak, C Rodero… - … on Medical Imaging, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Deep learning can bring time savings and increased reproducibility to medical image
analysis. However, acquiring training data is challenging due to the time-intensive nature of …

Early detection of myocardial infarction in low-quality echocardiography

A Degerli, M Zabihi, S Kiranyaz, T Hamid… - IEEE …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Myocardial infarction (MI), or commonly known as heart attack, is a life-threatening health
problem worldwide from which 32.4 million people suffer each year. Early diagnosis and …

Assisted probe guidance in cardiac ultrasound: A review

S Ferraz, M Coimbra, J Pedrosa - Frontiers in Cardiovascular …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Echocardiography is the most frequently used imaging modality in cardiology. However, its
acquisition is affected by inter-observer variability and largely dependent on the operator's …

Learning with context feedback loop for robust medical image segmentation

KB Girum, G Crehange… - IEEE transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Deep learning has successfully been leveraged for medical image segmentation. It employs
convolutional neural networks (CNN) to learn distinctive image features from a defined pixel …

MV-RAN: Multiview recurrent aggregation network for echocardiographic sequences segmentation and full cardiac cycle analysis

M Li, C Wang, H Zhang, G Yang - Computers in biology and medicine, 2020 - Elsevier
Multiview based learning has generally returned dividends in performance because
additional information can be extracted for the representation of the diversity of different …

Improved segmentation of echocardiography with orientation-congruency of optical flow and motion-enhanced segmentation

W Xue, H Cao, J Ma, T Bai, T Wang… - IEEE Journal of …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Quantification of left ventricular (LV) ejection fraction (EF) from echocardiography depends
upon the identification of endocardium boundaries as well as the calculation of end-diastolic …

Multilevel structure-preserved GAN for domain adaptation in intravascular ultrasound analysis

M **a, H Yang, Y Qu, Y Guo, G Zhou, F Zhang… - Medical Image …, 2022 - Elsevier
The poor generalizability of intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) analysis methods caused by the
great diversity of IVUS datasets is hopefully addressed by the domain adaptation strategy …

Interactive translation in echocardiography training system with enhanced cycle-GAN

L Teng, Z Fu, Y Yao - IEEE access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Interactive translation in echocardiography training system refers to the pixel-wise
translation between ultrasound cardiac and theoretical sketch images in the course of hand …

Cardiac point-of-care to cart-based ultrasound translation using constrained CycleGAN

MH Jafari, H Girgis, N Van Woudenberg… - International journal of …, 2020 - Springer
Purpose The emerging market of cardiac handheld ultrasound (US) is on the rise. Despite
the advantages in ease of access and the lower cost, a gap in image quality can still be …