Calcium removal from cardiac ct images using deep convolutional neural network

Siming Yan, Feng Shi, Yuhua Chen, Damini Dey, Sang Eun Lee, Hyuk Jae Chang, Debiao Li, Yibin Xie

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Abstract

Coronary calcium causes beam hardening and blooming artifacts on cardiac computed tomography angiography (CTA) images, which lead to overestimation of lumen stenosis and reduction of diagnostic specificity. To properly remove coronary calcification and restore arterial lumen precisely, we propose a machine learning-based method with a multi-step inpainting process. We developed a new network configuration, Dense-Unet, to achieve optimal performance with low computational cost. Results after the calcium removal process were validated by comparing with gold-standard X-ray angiography. Our results demonstrated that removing coronary calcification from images with the proposed approach was feasible, and may potentially improve the diagnostic accuracy of CTA.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2018 IEEE 15th International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, ISBI 2018
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages466-469
Number of pages4
ISBN (Electronic)9781538636367
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2018 May 23
Event15th IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, ISBI 2018 - Washington, United States
Duration: 2018 Apr 42018 Apr 7

Publication series

NameProceedings - International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging
Volume2018-April
ISSN (Print)1945-7928
ISSN (Electronic)1945-8452

Other

Other15th IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, ISBI 2018
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityWashington
Period18/4/418/4/7

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
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All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging

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