


Volume 20 No 14 (2022)
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Semantic Segmentation of Parasternal Short Axis View Echocardiography Images Using Unext Deep Learning Architecture
Inayathullah Ghori, Renu John
Abstract
In this paper, we analyze the application of U-NeXT deep learning architecture to segment echocardiographic
structures. Automation of segmentation of cardiac structures is a difficult task due to problems such as variable
tissue contrast, tissue artifacts, ultrasound speckle noise (acoustic interference) and varying position, shape and
movement of the cardiac structures obtained in pathological conditions. Also, the echocardiographic data is
dynamic and requires optimization and appropriate selection before segmentation. We have used Echo Dataset
2.1 having 408 images containing 2601 structures. The result on UNeXT trained architecture showed IoU 0.9200.
The output segmentation masks were qualitatively assessed and presented. The best contours identification
accuracy by the Dice coefficient of the Right ventricular endocardium and left ventricular epicardium were
0.9692 and 0.9843 respectively. The results validates that UNeXT architecture achieves state-of-the-art
performance with faster inference times
Keywords
CardiacUltrasound, Cardiac Segmentation,UNeXT,Deeplearning,Echocardiography, Computer vision
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