eprintid: 10197895 rev_number: 10 eprint_status: archive userid: 699 dir: disk0/10/19/78/95 datestamp: 2024-10-02 09:11:52 lastmod: 2024-10-02 09:11:52 status_changed: 2024-10-02 09:11:52 type: proceedings_section metadata_visibility: show sword_depositor: 699 creators_name: Khan, A creators_name: Asad, M creators_name: Benning, M creators_name: Roney, C creators_name: Slabaugh, G title: Crop and Couple: Cardiac Image Segmentation Using Interlinked Specialist Networks ispublished: pub divisions: UCL divisions: B04 divisions: F48 note: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher's terms and conditions. abstract: Diagnosis of cardiovascular disease using automated methods often relies on the critical task of cardiac image segmentation. We propose a novel strategy that performs segmentation using specialist networks that focus on a single anatomy (left ventricle, right ventricle, or myocardium). Given an input long-axis cardiac MR image, our method performs a ternary segmentation in the first stage to identify these anatomical regions, followed by cropping the original image to focus subsequent processing on the anatomical regions. The specialist networks are coupled through an attention mechanism that performs cross-attention to interlink features from different anatomies, serving as a soft relative shape prior. Central to our approach is an additive attention block (E-2A block), which is used throughout our architecture thanks to its efficiency. The source code is available at1. date: 2024 date_type: published publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/isbi56570.2024.10635217 oa_status: green full_text_type: other language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green verified: verified_manual elements_id: 2322868 doi: 10.1109/ISBI56570.2024.10635217 isbn_13: 979-8-3503-1333-8 lyricists_name: Benning, Martin lyricists_id: MBENN44 actors_name: Flynn, Bernadette actors_id: BFFLY94 actors_role: owner full_text_status: public pres_type: paper publication: Proceedings - International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging pagerange: 1-5 event_title: 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI) event_location: Athens, Greece event_dates: 27th-30th May 2024 book_title: Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI) 2024 citation: Khan, A; Asad, M; Benning, M; Roney, C; Slabaugh, G; (2024) Crop and Couple: Cardiac Image Segmentation Using Interlinked Specialist Networks. In: Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI) 2024. (pp. pp. 1-5). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10197895/1/2402.09156v1.pdf