Carotid artery wall segmentation in ultrasound image sequences using a deep convolutional neural network

01/28/2022
by   Nolann Lainé, et al.
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The objective of this study is the segmentation of the intima-media complex of the common carotid artery, on longitudinal ultrasound images, to measure its thickness. We propose a fully automatic region-based segmentation method, involving a supervised region-based deep-learning approach based on a dilated U-net network. It was trained and evaluated using a 5-fold cross-validation on a multicenter database composed of 2176 images annotated by two experts. The resulting mean absolute difference (<120 um) compared to reference annotations was less than the inter-observer variability (180 um). With a 98.7 rate, i.e., only 1.3 has been shown to be robust and thus may be recommended for use in clinical practice.

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