Abstract:
The coronary sinus or other vessel is segmented (16) by finding (14) a centerline and then using (30) the centerline to locate the boundary of the vessel. For finding the centerline, a refinement process uses multi-scale sparse appearance learning (22). For locating the boundary, the lumen is segmented as a graph cut problem (36).
Abstract:
A method and system for determining fractional flow reserve (FFR) for a coronary artery stenosis of a patient is disclosed. In one embodiment, medical image data of the patient including the stenosis is received, a set of features for the stenosis is extracted from the medical image data of the patient, and an FFR value for the stenosis is determined based on the extracted set of features using a trained machine-learning based mapping. In another embodiment, a medical image of the patient including the stenosis of interest is received, image patches corresponding to the stenosis of interest and a coronary tree of the patient are detected, an FFR value for the stenosis of interest is determined using a trained deep neural network regressor applied directly to the detected image patches
Abstract:
Object detection (58) uses a deep or multiple layer network (72-80) to learn features for detecting (58) the object in the image. Multiple features from different layers are aggregated (46) to train (48) a classifier for the object. In addition or as an alternative to feature aggregation from different layers, an initial layer (72) may have separate learnt nodes for different regions of the image (70) to reduce the number of free parameters. The object detection (58) is learned or a learned object detector is applied.
Abstract:
A method and system for anatomical landmark detection in medical images using deep neural networks is disclosed. For each of a plurality of image patches centered at a respective one of a plurality of voxels in the medical image, a subset of voxels within the image patch is input to a trained deep neural network based on a predetermined sampling pattern. A location of a target landmark in the medical image is detected using the trained deep neural network based on the subset of voxels input to the trained deep neural network from each of the plurality of image patches.