Direct volume estimation without segmentation

X. Zhen; Z. Wang; A. Islam; M. Bhaduri; I. Chan; S. Li

doi:10.1117/12.2081377

20 March 2015 Direct volume estimation without segmentation

X. Zhen, Z. Wang, A. Islam, M. Bhaduri, I. Chan, S. Li

Proceedings Volume 9413, Medical Imaging 2015: Image Processing; 94132G (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2081377
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2015, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

Volume estimation plays an important role in clinical diagnosis. For example, cardiac ventricular volumes including left ventricle (LV) and right ventricle (RV) are important clinical indicators of cardiac functions. Accurate and automatic estimation of the ventricular volumes is essential to the assessment of cardiac functions and diagnosis of heart diseases. Conventional methods are dependent on an intermediate segmentation step which is obtained either manually or automatically. However, manual segmentation is extremely time-consuming, subjective and highly non-reproducible; automatic segmentation is still challenging, computationally expensive, and completely unsolved for the RV. Towards accurate and efficient direct volume estimation, our group has been researching on learning based methods without segmentation by leveraging state-of-the-art machine learning techniques. Our direct estimation methods remove the accessional step of segmentation and can naturally deal with various volume estimation tasks. Moreover, they are extremely flexible to be used for volume estimation of either joint bi-ventricles (LV and RV) or individual LV/RV. We comparatively study the performance of direct methods on cardiac ventricular volume estimation by comparing with segmentation based methods. Experimental results show that direct estimation methods provide more accurate estimation of cardiac ventricular volumes than segmentation based methods. This indicates that direct estimation methods not only provide a convenient and mature clinical tool for cardiac volume estimation but also enables diagnosis of cardiac diseases to be conducted in a more efficient and reliable way.

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X. Zhen, Z. Wang, A. Islam, M. Bhaduri, I. Chan, and S. Li "Direct volume estimation without segmentation", Proc. SPIE 9413, Medical Imaging 2015: Image Processing, 94132G (20 March 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2081377

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