Estimation of Cardiac Short Axis Slice Levels with a Cascaded Deep Convolutional and Recurrent Neural Network Model

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Abstract

Automatic identification of short axis slice levels in cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is important in efficient and precise diagnosis of cardiac disease based on the geometry of the left ventricle. We developed a combined model of convolutional neural network (CNN) and recurrent neural network (RNN) that takes a series of short axis slices as input and predicts a series of slice levels as output. Each slice image was labeled as one of the following five classes: out-of-apical, apical, mid, basal, and out-of-basal levels. A variety of multi-class classification models were evaluated. When compared with the CNN-alone models, the cascaded CNN-RNN models resulted in higher mean F1-score and accuracy. In our implementation and testing of four different baseline networks with different combinations of RNN modules, MobileNet as the feature extractor cascaded with a two-layer long short-term memory (LSTM) network produced the highest scores in four of the seven evaluation metrics, i.e., five F1-scores, area under the curve (AUC), and accuracy. Our study indicates that the cascaded CNN-RNN models are superior to the CNN-alone models for the classification of short axis slice levels in cardiac cine MR images.

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Ho, N., & Kim, Y. C. (2022). Estimation of Cardiac Short Axis Slice Levels with a Cascaded Deep Convolutional and Recurrent Neural Network Model. Tomography, 8(6), 2749–2760. https://doi.org/10.3390/tomography8060229

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