Mengxue Zhao

Ms. Mengxue Zhao

Jilin University
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Academic Career Length

7Years (2020-Present)

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11 December 2020 in Electronics
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MZMengxue Zhao
Mengxue Zhao
XCXiangjiu Che
Xiangjiu Che
HLHualuo Liu
Hualuo Liu
QLQuanle Liu
Quanle Liu
Calcified plaque in coronary arteries is one major cause and prediction of future coronary artery disease risk. Therefore, the detection of calcified plaque in coronary arteries is exceptionally significant in clinical for slowing coronary artery disease progression. At present, the Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) is exceedingly popular in natural images’ object detection field. Therefore, CNN in the object detection field of medical images also has a wide range of applications. However, many current calcified plaque detection methods in medical images are based on improving the CNN model algorithm, not on the characteristics of medical images. In response, we propose an automatic calcified plaque detection method in non-contrast-enhanced cardiac CT by adding medical prior knowledge. The training data merging with medical prior knowledge through data augmentation makes the object detection algorithm achieve a better detection result. In terms of algorithm, we employ a deep learning tool knows as Faster R-CNN in our method for locating calcified plaque in coronary arteries. To reduce the generation of redundant anchor boxes, Region Proposal Networks is replaced with guided anchoring. Experimental results show that the proposed method achieved a decent detection performance.