Automatic multi-atlas segmentation of myocardium with SVF-Net

Abstract

Segmentation of the myocardium is a key step for image guided diagnosis in many cardiac diseases. In this article, we propose an automatic multi-atlas segmentation framework which relies on a very fast registration algorithm trained with convolutional neural networks. The speed of this registration method allows us to use a high number of templates in the multi-atlas segmentation while remaining computationally tractable. The performance of the propose approach is evaluated on a dataset of 100 end-diastolic and end-systolic MRI images of the STACOM 2017 Automated Cardiac Diagnosis Challenge (ACDC).