Semi-supervised Strong-Teacher Consistency Learning for few-shot cardiac MRI image segmentation.

Journal: Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
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Abstract

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Cardiovascular disease is a leading cause of mortality worldwide. Automated analysis of heart structures in MRI is crucial for effective diagnostics. While supervised learning has advanced the field of medical image segmentation, it however requires extensive labelled data, which is often limited for cardiac MRI.

Authors

  • Yuting Qiu
    Department of Computer Science, Loughborough University, LE11 3TU, Leicestershire, UK. Electronic address: Y.Qiu@lboro.ac.uk.
  • James Meng
    School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
  • Baihua Li
    Department of Computer Science, Loughborough University, Loughborough, United Kingdom.