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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 PublicationIEEE Access
ISSN2169-3536
Volume8Pages: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.

KeywordCardiac Fat Ct Deep Learning Image Segmentation Medical Imaging Analysis
DOI10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3008190
URLView the original
Indexed BySCIE
Language英語English
WOS Research AreaComputer Science ; Engineering ; Telecommunications
WOS SubjectComputer Science, Information Systemsengineering, Electrical & Electronictelecommunications
WOS IDWOS:000551832100001
PublisherIEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC445 HOES LANE, PISCATAWAY, NJ 08855-4141
Scopus ID2-s2.0-85089232025
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Document TypeJournal article
CollectionDEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
Corresponding AuthorZhang,Bob
Affiliation1.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 AffilicationFaculty of Science and Technology
Corresponding Author AffilicationFaculty of Science and Technology
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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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