An exploration of ventricle regions segmentation and multiclass disease detection using cardiac MRI

Abstract

AbstractIn this modern era, various cardiac diseases are very crucial as they cause a high mortality rate. Early detection of cardio vascular disease (CVD) is essential to prevent and control it. Diagnosis of cardiac disease is the process of analyzing the left and right ventricle cavities (LV, RV) and myocardium (MYO) from cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) images. As deep learning architectures are becoming more mature, segmenting, and classifying cardiac MRI images using deep learning is gaining more attention. This work is aimed to identify five different cardiac disease subgroups namely NOR, MINF, DCM, HCM, and ARC by employing a new deep join attention model (DJAM) technique for segmenting LV, MYO, and RV regions separately. This method provides advancement as the joined attention model was combined with the pooling layers and the resultant is added to the convolution layers. The proposed region integrated deep residual network (RIDRN) is used to extract the features from the segmented images for classification. In this process, the features of LV, RV, and MYO are combined with a different combination. The advantage of doing this process is to get the overall features without leaving any single strip of features from the three regions. Hence, it shows a rise in performance accuracy. The random forest classification method is used to classify the underlying features for cardiac disease diagnosis. This proposed work is tested in the automated cardiac diagnosis challenge (ACDC) dataset and it perfects the state‐of‐art techniques.