Published 2023 | Version v1
Journal article

Deep learning based automatic Debakey classification of aortic dissection using CT plain scan

  • 1. Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Fujian Medical University, Quanzhou, 362000, Fujian (China)
  • 2. English Department, Quanzhou Medical College, Quanzhou, 362000, Fujian (China)
  • 3. Department of Orthopedics, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Fujian Medical University, Quanzhou, 362000, Fujian (China)
  • 4. Department of General Surgery, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Fujian Medical University, Quanzhou, 362000, Fujian (China)

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Objective: This paper presents an automatic segmentation and classification of aortic dissection by utilizing neural network based on CT scanning. Methodology: First we present a way of establishing models of indivisible aorta parametrization, designed multiple seed points as the initial parameter and based on the three-dimensional area growth algorithm, finally add morphological processing to realize the segmentation of inner membrane, and then introduced the semantic segmentation framework, and analyzed the characteristics and function of each part, improve the Deeplabv 3 + network. This paper analyzes the results of the different experiments with two-dimensional lattices and presents the advantages of being sensitive to differences in shape and position and of not being able to use three dimensional spatial continuity. Our research establish the aorta reconstruction, which is simpler for learning the transformation of both the shape and position of, according to a last for three-dimensional CT images inter floor of the entire helix network aorta 3D MPRNet.A new module of multi-scale receptive field information fusion is designed, which realizes the function of acquiring different receptive field features, taking into account details and global features, so that the model obtains the unique ability more suitable for segmentation problems. In the decoder stage, the cross-layer connection mode similar to U-Net is still adopted to realize the fusion of semantic information at high and low levels, which ensures that the network can learn enough features. Results: The full convolutional network and traditional algorithms based on domain knowledge of aortic dissection images achieve a robust, automated and high precision CT image aortic dissection segmentation scheme. Conclusion: The large number of decoder parameters is increased, which increases the difficulty of network training and reduces the reasoning speed of the model. At the same time, not all features are useful information, while the high frequency and low frequency, the feature graph only adopts cross-layer connection to connect shallow features to high-level information may bring the redundancy of information and interference with useful information. Therefore, designing an efficient decoder is another research idea to accelerate model inference and improve segmentation accuracy

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Journal Title
Journal of Radiation Research and Applied Sciences
Journal Volume
16
Journal Issue
3
Journal Page Range
p. 10
ISSN
1687-8507