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Automatic Epicardial Fat Segmentation and Quantification of CT Scans Using Dual U-Nets with a Morphological Processing Layer | |
Zhang,Qi1; Zhou,Jianhang1; Zhang,Bob1; Jia,Weijia2; Wu,Enhua3 | |
2020-07 | |
Source Publication | IEEE Access |
ISSN | 2169-3536 |
Volume | 8Pages:128032-128041 |
Abstract | The epicardial fat plays a key role in the development of many cardiovascular diseases. It is necessary and useful to precisely segment this fat from CT scans in clinical studies. However, it is not feasible to manually segment this fat in clinical practice, as the workload and cost for technicians or physicians is quite high. In this work, we propose a novel method for automatic segmentation and quantification of epicardial fat from CT scans accurately. In detail, dual U-Nets with the morphological processing layer is used for this goal. The first network is based on the U-Net framework to detect the pericardium, before segmenting its inside region. A morphological layer is concatenated as the following layer of the first network, to refine and obtain the ideal inside region of the pericardium. While the second network is also applied using U-Net as its backbone to find and segment the epicardial fat of the processed inside region from the pericardium using the first network. Our proposed method obtains the highest mean Dice similarity (91.19%), correlation coefficient (0.9304) compared to other state-of-art methods on a cardiac CT dataset with 20 patients. The results indicate our proposed method is effective for quantifying epicardial fat automatically. |
Keyword | Cardiac Fat Ct Deep Learning Image Segmentation Medical Imaging Analysis |
DOI | 10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3008190 |
URL | View the original |
Indexed By | SCIE |
Language | 英語English |
WOS Research Area | Computer Science ; Engineering ; Telecommunications |
WOS Subject | Computer Science, Information Systemsengineering, Electrical & Electronictelecommunications |
WOS ID | WOS:000551832100001 |
Publisher | IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC445 HOES LANE, PISCATAWAY, NJ 08855-4141 |
Scopus ID | 2-s2.0-85089232025 |
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Document Type | Journal article |
Collection | DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCE |
Corresponding Author | Zhang,Bob |
Affiliation | 1.Department of Computer and Information Science,Pami Research Group,Faculty of Science and Technology,University of Macau,Taipa,Macao 2.BNU-UIC Joint Ai Research Institute,Beijing Normal University,Zhuhai,China 3.Faculty of Science and Technology,University of Macau,Taipa,Macao |
First Author Affilication | Faculty of Science and Technology |
Corresponding Author Affilication | Faculty of Science and Technology |
Recommended Citation GB/T 7714 | Zhang,Qi,Zhou,Jianhang,Zhang,Bob,et al. Automatic Epicardial Fat Segmentation and Quantification of CT Scans Using Dual U-Nets with a Morphological Processing Layer[J]. IEEE Access, 2020, 8, 128032-128041. |
APA | Zhang,Qi., Zhou,Jianhang., Zhang,Bob., Jia,Weijia., & Wu,Enhua (2020). Automatic Epicardial Fat Segmentation and Quantification of CT Scans Using Dual U-Nets with a Morphological Processing Layer. IEEE Access, 8, 128032-128041. |
MLA | Zhang,Qi,et al."Automatic Epicardial Fat Segmentation and Quantification of CT Scans Using Dual U-Nets with a Morphological Processing Layer".IEEE Access 8(2020):128032-128041. |
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