Cardiac MR: from theory to practice

TF Ismail, W Strugnell, C Coletti… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading single cause of morbidity and mortality,
causing over 17. 9 million deaths worldwide per year with associated costs of over $800 …

LA-Net: A multi-task deep network for the segmentation of the left atrium

F Uslu, M Varela, G Boniface… - IEEE transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Although atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common sustained atrial arrhythmia, treatment
success for this condition remains suboptimal. Information from magnetic resonance …

Dynamic position transformation and boundary refinement network for left atrial segmentation

F Xu, W Tu, F Feng, M Gunawardhana, J Yang… - … Conference on Medical …, 2024 - Springer
Left atrial (LA) segmentation is a crucial technique for diagnosing irregular heartbeat (ie,
atrial fibrillation). Most current methods for LA segmentation strictly assume that the input …

High-Resolution Maps of Left Atrial Displacements and Strains Estimated with 3D CINE MRI and Unsupervised Neural Networks

C Galazis, S Shepperd, E Brouwer, S Queirós… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
The functional analysis of the left atrium (LA) is important for evaluating cardiac health and
understanding diseases like atrial fibrillation. Cine MRI is ideally placed for the detailed 3D …

A robust quality estimation method for medical image segmentation with small datasets

F Uslu, M Varela - Biomedical Signal Processing and Control, 2024 - Elsevier
The quality check of automatic image analysis results is a necessity to eliminate poor
outcomes. There are few work on segmentation quality estimation when there is no …

Segmentation of the left atrium and proximal pulmonary veins based on dimensional decomposition attention

G Zhang, T Liang, Y Li, K Liang, Z Gong… - … Journal of Imaging …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Pulmonary vein anatomical structure typing plays a crucial role in the preoperative
assessment and postoperative evaluation of lung tumor resection, atrial fibrillation radio …

How good nnU-Net for Segmenting Cardiac MRI: A Comprehensive Evaluation

M Gunawardhana, F Xu, J Zhao - arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.06358, 2024 - arxiv.org
Cardiac segmentation is a critical task in medical imaging, essential for detailed analysis of
heart structures, which is crucial for diagnosing and treating various cardiovascular …

GSM-Net: A global sequence modelling network for the segmentation of short axis CINE MRI images

F Uslu - Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics, 2023 - Elsevier
Atrial Fibrillation (AF) is a disease where the atria fail to properly contract but quiver instead,
due to the abnormal electrical activity of the atrial tissue. In AF patients, anatomical and …

PAT-CNN: Automatic Segmentation and Quantification of Pericardial Adipose Tissue from T2-Weighted Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Images

Z Li, C Petri, J Howard, G Cole, M Varela - International Workshop on …, 2022 - Springer
Background: Increased pericardial adipose tissue (PAT) is associated with many types of
cardiovascular disease (CVD). Although cardiac magnetic resonance images (CMRI) are …

Left atrium MRI image segmentation using efficient Xception stochastic depth based generative adversarial network

A Bhan, PS Mangipudi, A Goyal - International Journal of …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Globally, cardiovascular diseases are an important cause of death. The general underlying
mechanism of the key cardiovascular diseases is thrombus formation inside the blood …