Abstract
Quantification of cardiac left ventricle has become a hot topic due to its great significance in clinical practice. Many efforts have been devoted to LV quantification and obtained promising performance with the help of various deep neural networks when validated on a group of samples. However, none of them can provide sample-level confidence of the results, i.e., how reliable is the prediction result for one single sample, which would help clinicians make decisions of whether or not to accept the automatic results. In this paper, we achieve this by introducing the uncertainty analysis theory into our LV quantification network. Two types of uncertainty, Model Uncertainty, and Data Uncertainty are analyzed for the quantification performance and contribute to the sample-level confidence. Experiments with data of 145 subjects validate that our method not only improved the quantification performance with an uncertainty-weighted regression loss but also is capable of providing for each sample the confidence level of the estimation results for clinicians’ further consideration.
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