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Modified Hough transform for left ventricle myocardium segmentation in 3-D echocardiogram images

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McManigle, JE; Stebbing, RV; Noble, JA
Published in: 9th IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI)

Segmentation of the left ventricular myocardium from 3D echocardiograms is complicated by speckle, artifact, and complex anatomy. Typical segmentation methods benefit from accurate initialization. We propose a two-step Hough transform to find an annular approximation of the myocardium in short-axis echo slices. The method was compared to manual segmentation of 5641 slices by center points and endocardial and epicardial radii. Centers deviated by a mean 3.31 mm, and radii by 2.57 mm and 3.04 mm, respectively. Dice’s coefficient of similarity was 0.70. Similarity is higher when apical slices are ignored. 93.8% of all slices and 96.8% of non-apical slices met criteria that suggest they would be appropriate to initialize further segmentation.

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McManigle, J. E., Stebbing, R. V., & Noble, J. A. (n.d.). Modified Hough transform for left ventricle myocardium segmentation in 3-D echocardiogram images. In 9th IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI) (pp. 290–293). https://doi.org/10.1109/ISBI.2012.6235541
McManigle, J. E., R. V. Stebbing, and J. A. Noble. “Modified Hough transform for left ventricle myocardium segmentation in 3-D echocardiogram images.” In 9th IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), 290–93, n.d. https://doi.org/10.1109/ISBI.2012.6235541.
McManigle JE, Stebbing RV, Noble JA. Modified Hough transform for left ventricle myocardium segmentation in 3-D echocardiogram images. In: 9th IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI). p. 290–3.
McManigle, J. E., et al. “Modified Hough transform for left ventricle myocardium segmentation in 3-D echocardiogram images.” 9th IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), pp. 290–93. Manual, doi:10.1109/ISBI.2012.6235541.
McManigle JE, Stebbing RV, Noble JA. Modified Hough transform for left ventricle myocardium segmentation in 3-D echocardiogram images. 9th IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI). p. 290–293.

Published In

9th IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI)

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290 / 293