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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2021

Semantic Cardiac Segmentation in Chest CT Images Using K-Means Clustering and the Mathematical Morphology Method.

Beanbonyka Rim, Sungjin Lee, Ahyoung Lee, Hyo-Wook Gil, Min Hong

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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Beanbonyka RimDepartment of Software Convergence, Soonchunhyang University, Asan 31538, Korea.ORCID 0000-0003-1232-0610
Sungjin LeeDepartment of Software Convergence, Soonchunhyang University, Asan 31538, Korea.ORCID 0000-0002-7865-7163
Ahyoung LeeDepartment of Computer Science, Kennesaw State University, Marietta, GA 30144, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7467-3038
Hyo-Wook GilDepartment of Internal Medicine, Soonchunhyang University Cheonan Hospital, Cheonan 31151, Korea.ORCID 0000-0003-2550-2739
Min HongDepartment of Computer Software Engineering, Soonchunhyang University, Asan 31538, Korea.ORCID 0000-0001-9963-5521

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National Key Research and Development Program of China 2019YFE0107800Soonchunhyang University NoneThe framework of international cooperation program managed by the National Research Foundation of Korea NRF-2019K1A3A1A20093097
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Abstract

Whole cardiac segmentation in chest CT images is important to identify functional abnormalities that occur in cardiovascular diseases, such as coronary artery disease (CAD) detection. However, manual efforts are time-consuming and labor intensive. Additionally, labeling the ground truth for cardiac segmentation requires the extensive manual annotation of images by the radiologist. Due to the difficulty in obtaining the annotated data and the required expertise as an annotator, an unsupervised approach is proposed. In this paper, we introduce a semantic whole-heart segmentation combining K-Means clustering as a threshold criterion of the mean-thresholding method and mathematical morphology method as a threshold shifting enhancer. The experiment was conducted on 500 subjects in two cases: (1) 56 slices per volume containing full heart scans, and (2) 30 slices per volume containing about half of the top of heart scans before the liver appears. In both cases, the results showed an average silhouette score of the K-Means method of 0.4130. Additionally, the experiment on 56 slices per volume achieved an overall accuracy (OA) and mean intersection over union (mIoU) of 34.90% and 41.26%, respectively, while the performance for the first 30 slices per volume achieved an OA and mIoU of 55.10% and 71.46%, respectively.

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SemanticsTomography, X-Ray ComputedAlgorithmsCluster AnalysisHumansImage Processing, Computer-Assistedchest CT scansimage processingK-Means clusteringmathematical morphology methodsilhouette scorewhole cardiac segmentation

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PMID33920219
PMCPMC8070040

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