DW-Net: A cascaded convolutional neural network for apical four-chamber view segmentation in fetal echocardiography
Abstract
Fetal echocardiography (FE) is a widely used medical examination for early diagnosis of congenital heart disease (CHD). The apical four-chamber view (A4C) is an important view among early FE images. Accurate segmentation of crucial anatomical structures in the A4C view is a useful and important step for early diagnosis and timely treatment of CHDs. However, it is a challenging task due to several unfavorable factors: (a) artifacts and speckle noise produced by ultrasound imaging. (b) category confusion caused by the similarity of anatomical structures and variations of scanning angles. (c) missing boundaries. In this paper, we propose an end-to-end DW-Net for accurate segmentation of seven important anatomical structures in the A4C view. The network comprises two components: 1) a Dilated Convolutional Chain (DCC) for "gridding issue" reduction, multi-scale contextual information aggregation and accurate localization of cardiac chambers. 2) a W-Net for gaining more precise boundaries and yielding refined segmentation results. Extensive experiments of the proposed method on a dataset of 895 A4C views have demonstrated that DW-Net can achieve good segmentation results, including the Dice Similarity Coefficient (DSC) of 0.827, the Pixel Accuracy (PA) of 0.933, the AUC of 0.990 and it substantially outperformed some well-known segmentation methods. Our work was highly valued by experienced clinicians. The accurate and automatic segmentation of the A4C view using the proposed DW-Net can benefit further extractions of useful clinical indicators in early FE and improve the prenatal diagnostic accuracy and efficiency of CHDs.
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Most fetal echocardiography studies only used 4CV images as the input for their algorithms.
“First, most of the studies only used 4CV images as the input for their algorithms [55,57,61,62,63,67,70]”
Most presented AI models in fetal echocardiography have been trained with apical 4CV, ignoring the reality of heterogenous US images obtained from different scanning angles in clinical routine.
“most presented AI models have been trained with apical 4CV, ignoring the reality of heterogenous US images obtained from different scanning angles in clinical routine [57].”
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- Authors
- Xu, L., Liu, M., Shen, Z., Wang, H., Liu, X., Wang, X., Wang, S., Li, T., Yu, S., Hou, M., Guo, J., Zhang, J., & He, Y.
- Affiliations
- Anhui Medical University (CN)
- Capital Medical University (CN)
- Corresponding author
- Zhang, Jicong
- He, Yihua
- ORCID
- Venue
- Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2020-03
- Volume
- 80
- Pages
- 101690
- ISSN
- 0730-4862 (ISSN-L)
- 0895-6111
- OpenAlex
- W2998635511
- Cited by
- 87
- References
- 70
- Citations by year
- 2026: 5 · 2025: 16 · 2024: 16 · 2023: 16 · 2022: 15 · 2021: 14 · 2020: 5
- FWCI
- 3.81
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Natural Science Foundation of China
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Medical Image Segmentation Techniques
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Health Informatics › Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Advanced Neural Network Applications
- Keywords
- fetal echocardiography, apical four-chamber view, congenital heart disease, dilated convolutional neural network, W-Net, prenatal diagnosis
- MeSH terms
- Echocardiography, Female, Fetal Heart, Heart Defects, Congenital, Humans, Pregnancy, Ultrasonography, Prenatal, Artifacts, Neural Networks, Computer
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