Integrating multi-scale information and diverse prompts in large model SAM-Med2D for accurate left ventricular ejection fraction estimation.

Abstract

Left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) is a critical indicator of cardiac function, aiding in the assessment of heart conditions. Accurate segmentation of the left ventricle (LV) is essential for LVEF calculation. However, current methods are often limited by small datasets and exhibit poor generalization. While leveraging large models can address this issue, many fail to capture multi-scale information and introduce additional burdens on users to generate prompts. To overcome these challenges, we propose LV-SAM, a model based on the large model SAM-Med2D, for accurate LV segmentation. It comprises three key components: an image encoder with a multi-scale adapter (MSAd), a multimodal prompt encoder (MPE), and a multi-scale decoder (MSD). The MSAd extracts multi-scale information at the encoder level and fine-tunes the model, while the MSD employs skip connections to effectively utilize multi-scale information at the decoder level. Additionally, we introduce an automated pipeline for generating self-extracted dense prompts and use a large language model to generate text prompts, reducing the user burden. The MPE processes these prompts, further enhancing model performance. Evaluations on the CAMUS dataset show that LV-SAM outperforms existing SOAT methods in LV segmentation, achieving the lowest MAE of 5.016 in LVEF estimation.