Segmentation of the Aortic Valve Apparatus in 3D Echocardiographic Images: Deformable Modeling of a Branching Medial Structure.
Publication/Presentation Date
1-1-2015
Abstract
3D echocardiographic (3DE) imaging is a useful tool for assessing the complex geometry of the aortic valve apparatus. Segmentation of this structure in 3DE images is a challenging task that benefits from shape-guided deformable modeling methods, which enable inter-subject statistical shape comparison. Prior work demonstrates the efficacy of using continuous medial representation (cm-rep) as a shape descriptor for valve leaflets. However, its application to the entire aortic valve apparatus is limited since the structure has a branching medial geometry that cannot be explicitly parameterized in the original cm-rep framework. In this work, we show that the aortic valve apparatus can be accurately segmented using a new branching medial modeling paradigm. The segmentation method achieves a mean boundary displacement of 0.6 ± 0.1 mm (approximately one voxel) relative to manual segmentation on 11 3DE images of normal open aortic valves. This study demonstrates a promising approach for quantitative 3DE analysis of aortic valve morphology.
Volume
8896
First Page
196
Last Page
203
Published In/Presented At
Pouch, A. M., Tian, S., Takabe, M., Wang, H., Yuan, J., Cheung, A. T., Jackson, B. M., Gorman, J. H., 3rd, Gorman, R. C., & Yushkevich, P. A. (2015). Segmentation of the Aortic Valve Apparatus in 3D Echocardiographic Images: Deformable Modeling of a Branching Medial Structure. Statistical atlases and computational models of the heart. STACOM (Workshop), 8896, 196–203. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14678-2_20
Disciplines
Medicine and Health Sciences
PubMedID
26247062
Department(s)
Department of Medicine, Cardiology Division
Document Type
Article