Title
Fully automatic detection and segmentation of abdominal aortic thrombus in post-operative CTA images using deep convolutional neural networks.
Abstract
•A DCNN-based fully automatic thrombus detection and segmentation pipeline that is easily translatable to clinical practice is proposed.•A new DCNN architecture adapted to post-operative thrombus segmentation from CTA images is presented, which combines low level features with coarser representations.•The well-known Detectnet computer vision network is translated into the clinical domain, specifically for thrombus region of interest detection in CTA images.•Automatic segmentation exceeds previous state of the art results, with a mean Dice similarity coefficient of 82%.•In terms of clinical applicability, the obtained segmentation results lay within the experienced human observer variance without the need of human intervention in most common cases.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1016/j.media.2018.03.010
Medical Image Analysis
Keywords
DocType
Volume
AAA,EVAR,Segmentation,DCNN,Deep learning,Thrombus,Post-operative,detection
Journal
46
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1361-8415
4
0.46
References 
Authors
18
9