Collaborative Study Towards Consensus LV Segmentation Images

We are happy to announce that the LV Segmentation Challenge that was held for the STACOM (Statistical Atlases and Computational Models of the Heart) 2011 workshop has been extended an ongoing collaboration work. We therefore would like to invite everyone to join this automated segmentation collaborative work for the left ventricle.

Objectives

The Cardiac Atlas Project has been established to collect thousands of cardiac image data and processed them into the corresponding cardiac models and population statistics. In return, the Cardiac Atlas Project is committed to provide public repository of cardiac data to the research community. Based on the spirit of cooperative scientific achievement in the field of cardiac imaging, the Cardiac Atlas Project is now organising a collaborative work towards consensus true segmentation images of the heart that can be used as the benchmark for any development of an automated LV segmentation method in the future.

Timeline

We don't set a timeline. This work will always open for everyone to join. When there is a submission, we will analyze the segmentation results and update the consensus ground truth images.

There will be an intermediate timeline to publish the current results to an international journal. Hence, we will include current participants as a co-author. The next deadline for the paper will be: 31 December 2011.

Participation

Everybody can participate in this work, particularly for students and researchers in the field of fully automatic segmentation of the heart. If you are interested to join and would like to be notified for further development of this work, you can send us an email (see Contacts below).

Accessing the data

We have been granted by the DETERMINE Study Committee to allow the same data that were used for the STACOM 2011 LV Segmentation Challenge to be used again for this work. Details of these data will be available soon.

Intermediate results

  1. LV segmentation challenge results from the STACOM 2011 workshop

Contacts

Please send an email to Avan Suinesiaputra for further information about this work.