Delineation of the left ventricular cavity, myocardium, and right ventricle from cardiac magnetic resonance images (multi-slice 2-D cine MRI) is a common clinical task to establish diagnosis. The automation of the corresponding tasks has thus been the subject of intense research over the past decades. In this paper, we introduce the "Automatic Cardiac Diagnosis Challenge" dataset (ACDC), the largest publicly available and fully annotated dataset for the purpose of cardiac MRI (CMR) assessment. The dataset contains data from 150 multi-equipments CMRI recordings with reference measurements and classification from two medical experts. The overarching objective of this paper is to measure how far state-of-the-art deep learning methods can go at assessing CMRI, i.e., segmenting the myocardium and the two ventricles as well as classifying pathologies. In the wake of the 2017 MICCAI-ACDC challenge, we report results from deep learning methods provided by nine research groups for the segmentation task and four groups for the classification task. Results show that the best methods faithfully reproduce the expert analysis, leading to a mean value of 0.97 correlation score for the automatic extraction of clinical indices and an accuracy of 0.96 for automatic diagnosis. These results clearly open the door to highly accurate and fully automatic analysis of cardiac CMRI. We also identify scenarios for which deep learning methods are still failing. Both the dataset and detailed results are publicly available online, while the platform will remain open for new submissions.

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Motion artifacts may occur in coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA) due to the heartbeat and impede the clinician's diagnosis of coronary arterial diseases. Thus, motion artifact correction of the coronary artery is required to quantify the risk of disease more accurately. We present a novel method based on deep learning for motion artifact correction in CCTA. Because the image of the coronary artery without motion (the ground-truth data required in supervised deep learning) is medically unattainable, we apply a style transfer method to 2D image patches cropped from full-phase 4D computed tomography (CT) to synthesize these images. We then train a convolutional neural network (CNN) for motion artifact correction using this synthetic ground-truth (SynGT). During testing, the output motion-corrected 2D image patches of the trained network are reinserted into the 3D CT volume with volumetric interpolation. The proposed method is evaluated using both phantom and clinical data. A phantom study demonstrates comparable results to other methods in quantitative performance and outperforms those methods in computation time. For clinical data, a quantitative analysis based on metric measurements is presented that confirms the correction of motion artifacts. Moreover, an observer study finds that by applying the proposed method, motion artifacts are markedly reduced, and boundaries of the coronary artery are much sharper, with a strong inter-observer agreement (κ = 0.78). Finally, evaluations using commercial software on the original and resulting CT volumes of the proposed method reveal a considerable increase in tracked coronary artery length.INDEX TERMS Computed tomography, deep learning, image restoration, motion correction and analysis, coronary angiography. I. INTRODUCTIONCoronary artery disease (CAD), also known as ischemic heart disease, is the leading cause of death globally [1]. Recently, non-invasive coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA) has been widely adopted for the diagnosis of CAD. The diagnostic accuracy of CCTA is comparable to that of conventional invasive coronary angiography, with a significantly lower risk of complications [2]. However, motionThe associate editor coordinating the review of this manuscript and approving it for publication was Hengyong Yu . artifacts may occur in the acquisition of CCTA, which can cause errors in tracking or segmentation of the coronary artery.Prospective electrocardiography (ECG)-gating can be used to address this problem by timing the CCTA acquisition to the most quiescent phase of the heartbeat, although motion artifacts can occur if the heart rate is very high or irregular. Drugs such as beta-blockers may generally be administered to slow down the patient heart rate when it is higher than 65 beats per minute, but often with limited efficacy [3] or more frequent angina and ischemia [4].

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