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A Multi-Task Network for Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Image Segmentation and Classification

Jing Peng1,2,4, Chaoyang Xia2, Yuanwei Xu3, Xiaojie Li2, Xi Wu2, Xiao Han1,4, Xinlai Chen5, Yucheng Chen3, Zhe Cui1,4,*

1 Chengdu Institute of Computer Application, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, 610041, China
2 School of Computer Science, Chengdu University of Information Technology, Chengdu, 610225, China
3 BMSc, Department of Cardiology, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610041, China
4 University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
5 Department of Experimental Rheumatology, Nijmegen, 6525GA, Netherlands

* Corresponding Author: Zhe Cui. Email: email

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing 2021, 30(1), 259-272. https://doi.org/10.32604/iasc.2021.016749

Abstract

Cardiomyopathy is a group of diseases that affect the heart and can cause serious health problems. Segmentation and classification are important for automating the clinical diagnosis and treatment planning for cardiomyopathy. However, this automation is difficult because of the poor quality of cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging data and varying dimensions caused by movement of the ventricle. To address these problems, a deep multi-task framework based on a convolutional neural network (CNN) is proposed to segment the left ventricle (LV) myocardium and classify cardiopathy simultaneously. The proposed model consists of a longitudinal encoder–decoder structure that obtains high- and low-level features at the same time. The encoder employs a feature pyramid module (FPM) and dense atrous convolution (DAC) to extract features from images with variable scales for classification. Meanwhile, the decoder leverages the subpixel layer to recover spatial information caused by downsampling in the encoder for segmentation. The approach was verified using 654 magnetic resonance images. It achieved a Dice similarity coefficient (DSC) metric of 82.14% on segmentation and a classification accuracy of 95.72%, with an area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) of 97.88%. The proposed method can aid in the segmentation of cardiac magnetic images and improve the classification accuracy of cardiopathy.

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J. Peng, C. Xia, Y. Xu, X. Li, X. Wu et al., "A multi-task network for cardiac magnetic resonance image segmentation and classification," Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, vol. 30, no.1, pp. 259–272, 2021.



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