Continuous Spatio-Temporal Memory Networks for 4D Cardiac Cine MRI Segmentation

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Auteurs principaux: Ye, Meng, Xin, Bingyu, Axel, Leon, Metaxas, Dimitris
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author Ye, Meng
Xin, Bingyu
Axel, Leon
Metaxas, Dimitris
author_facet Ye, Meng
Xin, Bingyu
Axel, Leon
Metaxas, Dimitris
contents Current cardiac cine magnetic resonance image (cMR) studies focus on the end diastole (ED) and end systole (ES) phases, while ignoring the abundant temporal information in the whole image sequence. This is because whole sequence segmentation is currently a tedious process and inaccurate. Conventional whole sequence segmentation approaches first estimate the motion field between frames, which is then used to propagate the mask along the temporal axis. However, the mask propagation results could be prone to error, especially for the basal and apex slices, where through-plane motion leads to significant morphology and structural change during the cardiac cycle. Inspired by recent advances in video object segmentation (VOS), based on spatio-temporal memory (STM) networks, we propose a continuous STM (CSTM) network for semi-supervised whole heart and whole sequence cMR segmentation. Our CSTM network takes full advantage of the spatial, scale, temporal and through-plane continuity prior of the underlying heart anatomy structures, to achieve accurate and fast 4D segmentation. Results of extensive experiments across multiple cMR datasets show that our method can improve the 4D cMR segmentation performance, especially for the hard-to-segment regions.
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spellingShingle Continuous Spatio-Temporal Memory Networks for 4D Cardiac Cine MRI Segmentation
Ye, Meng
Xin, Bingyu
Axel, Leon
Metaxas, Dimitris
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Current cardiac cine magnetic resonance image (cMR) studies focus on the end diastole (ED) and end systole (ES) phases, while ignoring the abundant temporal information in the whole image sequence. This is because whole sequence segmentation is currently a tedious process and inaccurate. Conventional whole sequence segmentation approaches first estimate the motion field between frames, which is then used to propagate the mask along the temporal axis. However, the mask propagation results could be prone to error, especially for the basal and apex slices, where through-plane motion leads to significant morphology and structural change during the cardiac cycle. Inspired by recent advances in video object segmentation (VOS), based on spatio-temporal memory (STM) networks, we propose a continuous STM (CSTM) network for semi-supervised whole heart and whole sequence cMR segmentation. Our CSTM network takes full advantage of the spatial, scale, temporal and through-plane continuity prior of the underlying heart anatomy structures, to achieve accurate and fast 4D segmentation. Results of extensive experiments across multiple cMR datasets show that our method can improve the 4D cMR segmentation performance, especially for the hard-to-segment regions.
title Continuous Spatio-Temporal Memory Networks for 4D Cardiac Cine MRI Segmentation
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.23191