Title
AMCNet: Attention-Based Multiscale Convolutional Network for DCM MRI Segmentation
Abstract
For patients with dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM), fast and accurate diagnosis is important to save lives. MRI is a non-invasive, effective medical imaging method that allows doctors to diagnose DCM. However, manual and semi-automatic segmentation is subjective, non-reproducible and time-consuming task. In this paper, a new attention-based convolutional encoder-decoder network is proposed to automatically segment my-ocardium in DCM, which assisting the doctor to quickly diagnose. In the proposed method, the attention mechanism module is used, which is able to fully highlight useful features that facilitate segmentation while suppress useless features that are not conducive to segmentation. Combining with the multi-scale convolution, our encoder-decoder network can accurately segment the my-ocardium in DCM. We verified our approach on 1155 myocardial MRI. Our network achieves the most advanced segmentation performance on the cardiac DCM dataset. Experiment results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/COMPSAC.2019.10245
2019 IEEE 43rd Annual Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC)
Keywords
DocType
Volume
attention, DCM segmentation, encoder-decoder, MRI
Conference
2
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
0730-3157
978-1-7281-2607-4
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
5
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Chao Luo15817.22
Canghong Shi211.71
Xian Zhang301.35
Jing Peng46118.34
Xiaojie Li5194.38
Yucheng Chen601.69