End-to-End Diagnosis and Segmentation Learning from Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) is used extensively in the diagnosis and management of cardiovascular disease. Deep learning methods have proven to deliver segmentation results comparable to human experts in CMR imaging, but there have been no convincing results for the problem of end-to-end segmen...

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Published in:arXiv.org 2018-10
Main Authors: Snaauw, Gerard, Gong, Dong, Maicas, Gabriel, van den Hengel, Anton, Niessen, Wiro J, Verjans, Johan, Carneiro, Gustavo
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Classification
Datasets
Diagnosis
Disease control
Image segmentation
Machine learning
Magnetic resonance imaging
Medical imaging
Optimization
Teaching methods
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Summary:Cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) is used extensively in the diagnosis and management of cardiovascular disease. Deep learning methods have proven to deliver segmentation results comparable to human experts in CMR imaging, but there have been no convincing results for the problem of end-to-end segmentation and diagnosis from CMR. This is in part due to a lack of sufficiently large datasets required to train robust diagnosis models. In this paper, we propose a learning method to train diagnosis models, where our approach is designed to work with relatively small datasets. In particular, the optimisation loss is based on multi-task learning that jointly trains for the tasks of segmentation and diagnosis classification. We hypothesize that segmentation has a regularizing effect on the learning of features relevant for diagnosis. Using the 100 training and 50 testing samples available from the Automated Cardiac Diagnosis Challenge (ACDC) dataset, which has a balanced distribution of 5 cardiac diagnoses, we observe a reduction of the classification error from 32% to 22%, and a faster convergence compared to a baseline without segmentation. To the best of our knowledge, this is the best diagnosis results from CMR using an end-to-end diagnosis and segmentation learning method.
ISSN:2331-8422