Purpose: The goal of this study was to develop a fully convolutional network (FCN) tool to automatedly segment the left-ventricular (LV) myocardium in displacement encoding with stimulated echoes MRI. The segmentation results are used for LV chamber quantification and strain analyses in breast cancer patients susceptible to cancer therapy-related cardiac dysfunction (CTRCD). Approach: A DeepLabV3+ FCN with a ResNet-101 backbone was custom-designed to conduct chamber quantification on 45 female breast cancer datasets (23 training, 11 validation, and 11 test sets). LV structural parameters and LV ejection fraction (LVEF) were measured, and myocardial strains estimated with the radial point interpolation method. Myocardial classification validation was against quantization-based ground-truth with computations of accuracy, Dice score, average perpendicular distance (APD), Hausdorff-distance, and others. Additional validations were conducted with equivalence tests and Cronbach’s alpha ( Results: Myocardial classification results against ground-truth were Conclusions: The validation results were found equivalent to the vendor tool-based parameter estimates, which show that accurate LV chamber quantification followed by strain analysis for CTRCD investigation can be achieved with our proposed FCN methodology. |
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Image segmentation
Vacuum chambers
Myocardium
Education and training
Magnetic resonance imaging
Breast cancer
Tunable filters