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Narayanan A, Kong F, Shadden S. LinFlo-Net: A Two-Stage Deep Learning Method to Generate Simulation Ready Meshes of the Heart. J Biomech Eng 2024; 146:071005. [PMID: 38258957 DOI: 10.1115/1.4064527] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/16/2023] [Accepted: 01/19/2024] [Indexed: 01/24/2024]
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We present a deep learning model to automatically generate computer models of the human heart from patient imaging data with an emphasis on its capability to generate thin-walled cardiac structures. Our method works by deforming a template mesh to fit the cardiac structures to the given image. Compared with prior deep learning methods that adopted this approach, our framework is designed to minimize mesh self-penetration, which typically arises when deforming surface meshes separated by small distances. We achieve this by using a two-stage diffeomorphic deformation process along with a novel loss function derived from the kinematics of motion that penalizes surface contact and interpenetration. Our model demonstrates comparable accuracy with state-of-the-art methods while additionally producing meshes free of self-intersections. The resultant meshes are readily usable in physics based simulation, minimizing the need for postprocessing and cleanup.
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Affiliation(s)
- Arjun Narayanan
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94709
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- Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305
- Stanford University
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94709
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Yao T, Pajaziti E, Quail M, Schievano S, Steeden J, Muthurangu V. Image2Flow: A proof-of-concept hybrid image and graph convolutional neural network for rapid patient-specific pulmonary artery segmentation and CFD flow field calculation from 3D cardiac MRI data. PLoS Comput Biol 2024; 20:e1012231. [PMID: 38900817 PMCID: PMC11218942 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1012231] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2024] [Revised: 07/02/2024] [Accepted: 06/06/2024] [Indexed: 06/22/2024] Open
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Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) can be used for non-invasive evaluation of hemodynamics. However, its routine use is limited by labor-intensive manual segmentation, CFD mesh creation, and time-consuming simulation. This study aims to train a deep learning model to both generate patient-specific volume-meshes of the pulmonary artery from 3D cardiac MRI data and directly estimate CFD flow fields. This proof-of-concept study used 135 3D cardiac MRIs from both a public and private dataset. The pulmonary arteries in the MRIs were manually segmented and converted into volume-meshes. CFD simulations were performed on ground truth meshes and interpolated onto point-point correspondent meshes to create the ground truth dataset. The dataset was split 110/10/15 for training, validation, and testing. Image2Flow, a hybrid image and graph convolutional neural network, was trained to transform a pulmonary artery template to patient-specific anatomy and CFD values, taking a specific inlet velocity as an additional input. Image2Flow was evaluated in terms of segmentation, and the accuracy of predicted CFD was assessed using node-wise comparisons. In addition, the ability of Image2Flow to respond to increasing inlet velocities was also evaluated. Image2Flow achieved excellent segmentation accuracy with a median Dice score of 0.91 (IQR: 0.86-0.92). The median node-wise normalized absolute error for pressure and velocity magnitude was 11.75% (IQR: 9.60-15.30%) and 9.90% (IQR: 8.47-11.90), respectively. Image2Flow also showed an expected response to increased inlet velocities with increasing pressure and velocity values. This proof-of-concept study has shown that it is possible to simultaneously perform patient-specific volume-mesh based segmentation and pressure and flow field estimation using Image2Flow. Image2Flow completes segmentation and CFD in ~330ms, which is ~5000 times faster than manual methods, making it more feasible in a clinical environment.
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- Tina Yao
- Institute of Cardiovascular Science, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Cardiovascular Science, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Cardiovascular Science, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Cardiovascular Science, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Cardiovascular Science, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Cardiovascular Science, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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Koizumi S, Kin T, Shono N, Kiyofuji S, Umekawa M, Sato K, Saito N. Patient-specific cerebral 3D vessel model reconstruction using deep learning. Med Biol Eng Comput 2024:10.1007/s11517-024-03136-6. [PMID: 38802608 DOI: 10.1007/s11517-024-03136-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/19/2024] [Accepted: 05/18/2024] [Indexed: 05/29/2024]
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Three-dimensional vessel model reconstruction from patient-specific magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) images often requires some manual maneuvers. This study aimed to establish the deep learning (DL)-based method for vessel model reconstruction. Time of flight MRA of 40 patients with internal carotid artery aneurysms was prepared, and three-dimensional vessel models were constructed using the threshold and region-growing method. Using those datasets, supervised deep learning using 2D U-net was performed to reconstruct 3D vessel models. The accuracy of the DL-based vessel segmentations was assessed using 20 MRA images outside the training dataset. The dice coefficient was used as the indicator of the model accuracy, and the blood flow simulation was performed using the DL-based vessel model. The created DL model could successfully reconstruct a three-dimensional model in all 60 cases. The dice coefficient in the test dataset was 0.859. Of note, the DL-generated model proved its efficacy even for large aneurysms (> 10 mm in their diameter). The reconstructed model was feasible in performing blood flow simulation to assist clinical decision-making. Our DL-based method could successfully reconstruct a three-dimensional vessel model with moderate accuracy. Future studies are warranted to exhibit that DL-based technology can promote medical image processing.
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- Satoshi Koizumi
- Department of Neurosurgery, The University of Tokyo Hospital, 7-3-1Bunkyo-Ku, HongoTokyo, 113-8655, Japan.
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- Department of Neurosurgery, The University of Tokyo Hospital, 7-3-1Bunkyo-Ku, HongoTokyo, 113-8655, Japan
- Department of Medical Information Engineering, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Neurosurgery, The University of Tokyo Hospital, 7-3-1Bunkyo-Ku, HongoTokyo, 113-8655, Japan
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- Department of Neurosurgery, The University of Tokyo Hospital, 7-3-1Bunkyo-Ku, HongoTokyo, 113-8655, Japan
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- Department of Neurosurgery, The University of Tokyo Hospital, 7-3-1Bunkyo-Ku, HongoTokyo, 113-8655, Japan
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- Department of Neurosurgery, The University of Tokyo Hospital, 7-3-1Bunkyo-Ku, HongoTokyo, 113-8655, Japan
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- Department of Neurosurgery, The University of Tokyo Hospital, 7-3-1Bunkyo-Ku, HongoTokyo, 113-8655, Japan
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Bongratz F, Rickmann AM, Wachinger C. Neural deformation fields for template-based reconstruction of cortical surfaces from MRI. Med Image Anal 2024; 93:103093. [PMID: 38281362 DOI: 10.1016/j.media.2024.103093] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/27/2023] [Revised: 12/19/2023] [Accepted: 01/22/2024] [Indexed: 01/30/2024]
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The reconstruction of cortical surfaces is a prerequisite for quantitative analyses of the cerebral cortex in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Existing segmentation-based methods separate the surface registration from the surface extraction, which is computationally inefficient and prone to distortions. We introduce Vox2Cortex-Flow (V2C-Flow), a deep mesh-deformation technique that learns a deformation field from a brain template to the cortical surfaces of an MRI scan. To this end, we present a geometric neural network that models the deformation-describing ordinary differential equation in a continuous manner. The network architecture comprises convolutional and graph-convolutional layers, which allows it to work with images and meshes at the same time. V2C-Flow is not only very fast, requiring less than two seconds to infer all four cortical surfaces, but also establishes vertex-wise correspondences to the template during reconstruction. In addition, V2C-Flow is the first approach for cortex reconstruction that models white matter and pial surfaces jointly, therefore avoiding intersections between them. Our comprehensive experiments on internal and external test data demonstrate that V2C-Flow results in cortical surfaces that are state-of-the-art in terms of accuracy. Moreover, we show that the established correspondences are more consistent than in FreeSurfer and that they can directly be utilized for cortex parcellation and group analyses of cortical thickness.
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- Fabian Bongratz
- Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence in Medical Imaging, Department of Radiology, Technical University of Munich, Munich 81675, Germany; Munich Center for Machine Learning, Munich, Germany.
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- Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence in Medical Imaging, Department of Radiology, Technical University of Munich, Munich 81675, Germany; Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich 80336, Germany
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- Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence in Medical Imaging, Department of Radiology, Technical University of Munich, Munich 81675, Germany; Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich 80336, Germany; Munich Center for Machine Learning, Munich, Germany
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Huang Y, Yang J, Sun Q, Yuan Y, Li H, Hou Y. Multi-residual 2D network integrating spatial correlation for whole heart segmentation. Comput Biol Med 2024; 172:108261. [PMID: 38508056 DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2024.108261] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2023] [Revised: 02/21/2024] [Accepted: 03/06/2024] [Indexed: 03/22/2024]
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Whole heart segmentation (WHS) has significant clinical value for cardiac anatomy, modeling, and analysis of cardiac function. This study aims to address the WHS accuracy on cardiac CT images, as well as the fast inference speed and low graphics processing unit (GPU) memory consumption required by practical clinical applications. Thus, we propose a multi-residual two-dimensional (2D) network integrating spatial correlation for WHS. The network performs slice-by-slice segmentation on three-dimensional cardiac CT images in a 2D encoder-decoder manner. In the network, a convolutional long short-term memory skip connection module is designed to perform spatial correlation feature extraction on the feature maps at different resolutions extracted by the sub-modules of the pre-trained ResNet-based encoder. Moreover, a decoder based on the multi-residual module is designed to analyze the extracted features from the perspectives of multi-scale and channel attention, thereby accurately delineating the various substructures of the heart. The proposed method is verified on a dataset of the multi-modality WHS challenge, an in-house WHS dataset, and a dataset of the abdominal organ segmentation challenge. The dice, Jaccard, average symmetric surface distance, Hausdorff distance, inference time, and maximum GPU memory of the WHS are 0.914, 0.843, 1.066 mm, 15.778 mm, 9.535 s, and 1905 MB, respectively. The proposed network has high accuracy, fast inference speed, minimal GPU memory consumption, strong robustness, and good generalization. It can be deployed to clinical practical applications for WHS and can be effectively extended and applied to other multi-organ segmentation fields. The source code is publicly available at https://github.com/nancy1984yan/MultiResNet-SC.
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- Yan Huang
- Key Laboratory of Intelligent Computing in Medical Image, Ministry of Education, Northeastern University, Shenyang, Liaoning, China; School of Computer Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang, Liaoning, China
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- Key Laboratory of Intelligent Computing in Medical Image, Ministry of Education, Northeastern University, Shenyang, Liaoning, China; School of Computer Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang, Liaoning, China; National Frontiers Science Center for Industrial Intelligence and Systems Optimization, Shenyang, Liaoning, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Intelligent Computing in Medical Image, Ministry of Education, Northeastern University, Shenyang, Liaoning, China; School of Computer Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang, Liaoning, China
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- Key Laboratory of Intelligent Computing in Medical Image, Ministry of Education, Northeastern University, Shenyang, Liaoning, China; School of Computer Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang, Liaoning, China
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- Key Laboratory of Intelligent Computing in Medical Image, Ministry of Education, Northeastern University, Shenyang, Liaoning, China; School of Computer Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang, Liaoning, China
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- Department of Radiology, Shengjing Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, Liaoning, China
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Corbin D, Santaló-Corcoy M, Tastet O, Lopes P, Schrot J, Modine T, Asgar A, Lesage F, Ben Ali W. Validation Study of Two Artificial Intelligence-Based Preplanning Methods for Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement Procedures. JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY FOR CARDIOVASCULAR ANGIOGRAPHY & INTERVENTIONS 2024; 3:101289. [PMID: 39131227 PMCID: PMC11307595 DOI: 10.1016/j.jscai.2023.101289] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/21/2023] [Revised: 12/21/2023] [Accepted: 12/26/2023] [Indexed: 08/13/2024]
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- Montreal Heart Institute, Montreal, Canada
- Department of Electrical Engineering, Polytechnique Montreal, Montreal, Canada
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Brown AL, Sexton ZA, Hu Z, Yang W, Marsden AL. Computational approaches for mechanobiology in cardiovascular development and diseases. Curr Top Dev Biol 2024; 156:19-50. [PMID: 38556423 DOI: 10.1016/bs.ctdb.2024.01.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/02/2024]
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The cardiovascular development in vertebrates evolves in response to genetic and mechanical cues. The dynamic interplay among mechanics, cell biology, and anatomy continually shapes the hydraulic networks, characterized by complex, non-linear changes in anatomical structure and blood flow dynamics. To better understand this interplay, a diverse set of molecular and computational tools has been used to comprehensively study cardiovascular mechanobiology. With the continual advancement of computational capacity and numerical techniques, cardiovascular simulation is increasingly vital in both basic science research for understanding developmental mechanisms and disease etiologies, as well as in clinical studies aimed at enhancing treatment outcomes. This review provides an overview of computational cardiovascular modeling. Beginning with the fundamental concepts of computational cardiovascular modeling, it navigates through the applications of computational modeling in investigating mechanobiology during cardiac development. Second, the article illustrates the utility of computational hemodynamic modeling in the context of treatment planning for congenital heart diseases. It then delves into the predictive potential of computational models for elucidating tissue growth and remodeling processes. In closing, we outline prevailing challenges and future prospects, underscoring the transformative impact of computational cardiovascular modeling in reshaping cardiovascular science and clinical practice.
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- Aaron L Brown
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
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- Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
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- Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
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- Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States; Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States.
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Pak DH, Liu M, Kim T, Liang L, Caballero A, Onofrey J, Ahn SS, Xu Y, McKay R, Sun W, Gleason R, Duncan JS. Patient-Specific Heart Geometry Modeling for Solid Biomechanics Using Deep Learning. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MEDICAL IMAGING 2024; 43:203-215. [PMID: 37432807 PMCID: PMC10764002 DOI: 10.1109/tmi.2023.3294128] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/13/2023]
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Automated volumetric meshing of patient-specific heart geometry can help expedite various biomechanics studies, such as post-intervention stress estimation. Prior meshing techniques often neglect important modeling characteristics for successful downstream analyses, especially for thin structures like the valve leaflets. In this work, we present DeepCarve (Deep Cardiac Volumetric Mesh): a novel deformation-based deep learning method that automatically generates patient-specific volumetric meshes with high spatial accuracy and element quality. The main novelty in our method is the use of minimally sufficient surface mesh labels for precise spatial accuracy and the simultaneous optimization of isotropic and anisotropic deformation energies for volumetric mesh quality. Mesh generation takes only 0.13 seconds/scan during inference, and each mesh can be directly used for finite element analyses without any manual post-processing. Calcification meshes can also be subsequently incorporated for increased simulation accuracy. Numerous stent deployment simulations validate the viability of our approach for large-batch analyses. Our code is available at https://github.com/danpak94/Deep-Cardiac-Volumetric-Mesh.
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Pegolotti L, Pfaller MR, Rubio NL, Ding K, Brugarolas Brufau R, Darve E, Marsden AL. Learning reduced-order models for cardiovascular simulations with graph neural networks. Comput Biol Med 2024; 168:107676. [PMID: 38039892 PMCID: PMC10886437 DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2023.107676] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/14/2023] [Revised: 10/23/2023] [Accepted: 11/06/2023] [Indexed: 12/03/2023]
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Reduced-order models based on physics are a popular choice in cardiovascular modeling due to their efficiency, but they may experience loss in accuracy when working with anatomies that contain numerous junctions or pathological conditions. We develop one-dimensional reduced-order models that simulate blood flow dynamics using a graph neural network trained on three-dimensional hemodynamic simulation data. Given the initial condition of the system, the network iteratively predicts the pressure and flow rate at the vessel centerline nodes. Our numerical results demonstrate the accuracy and generalizability of our method in physiological geometries comprising a variety of anatomies and boundary conditions. Our findings demonstrate that our approach can achieve errors below 3% for pressure and flow rate, provided there is adequate training data. As a result, our method exhibits superior performance compared to physics-based one-dimensional models while maintaining high efficiency at inference time.
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Affiliation(s)
- Luca Pegolotti
- Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University, United States of America; Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering, Stanford University, United States of America.
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- Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University, United States of America; Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering, Stanford University, United States of America
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, United States of America
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- Intel Corporation, United States of America
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- Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering, Stanford University, United States of America; Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, United States of America
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- Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University, United States of America; Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering, Stanford University, United States of America; Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, United States of America; Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, United States of America
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Bongratz F, Rickmann AM, Wachinger C. Abdominal organ segmentation via deep diffeomorphic mesh deformations. Sci Rep 2023; 13:18270. [PMID: 37880251 PMCID: PMC10600339 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-45435-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/02/2023] [Accepted: 10/19/2023] [Indexed: 10/27/2023] Open
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Abdominal organ segmentation from CT and MRI is an essential prerequisite for surgical planning and computer-aided navigation systems. It is challenging due to the high variability in the shape, size, and position of abdominal organs. Three-dimensional numeric representations of abdominal shapes with point-wise correspondence to a template are further important for quantitative and statistical analyses thereof. Recently, template-based surface extraction methods have shown promising advances for direct mesh reconstruction from volumetric scans. However, the generalization of these deep learning-based approaches to different organs and datasets, a crucial property for deployment in clinical environments, has not yet been assessed. We close this gap and employ template-based mesh reconstruction methods for joint liver, kidney, pancreas, and spleen segmentation. Our experiments on manually annotated CT and MRI data reveal limited generalization capabilities of previous methods to organs of different geometry and weak performance on small datasets. We alleviate these issues with a novel deep diffeomorphic mesh-deformation architecture and an improved training scheme. The resulting method, UNetFlow, generalizes well to all four organs and can be easily fine-tuned on new data. Moreover, we propose a simple registration-based post-processing that aligns voxel and mesh outputs to boost segmentation accuracy.
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- Fabian Bongratz
- Department of Radiology, Technical University of Munich, Munich, 81675, Germany.
- Munich Center for Machine Learning, Munich, Germany.
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- Department of Radiology, Technical University of Munich, Munich, 81675, Germany
- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, 80336, Germany
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- Department of Radiology, Technical University of Munich, Munich, 81675, Germany
- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, 80336, Germany
- Munich Center for Machine Learning, Munich, Germany
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Santaló-Corcoy M, Corbin D, Tastet O, Lesage F, Modine T, Asgar A, Ben Ali W. TAVI-PREP: A Deep Learning-Based Tool for Automated Measurements Extraction in TAVI Planning. Diagnostics (Basel) 2023; 13:3181. [PMID: 37892002 PMCID: PMC10606167 DOI: 10.3390/diagnostics13203181] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2023] [Revised: 09/29/2023] [Accepted: 10/02/2023] [Indexed: 10/29/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) is a less invasive alternative to open-heart surgery for treating severe aortic stenosis. Despite its benefits, the risk of procedural complications necessitates careful preoperative planning. METHODS This study proposes a fully automated deep learning-based method, TAVI-PREP, for pre-TAVI planning, focusing on measurements extracted from computed tomography (CT) scans. The algorithm was trained on the public MM-WHS dataset and a small subset of private data. It uses MeshDeformNet for 3D surface mesh generation and a 3D Residual U-Net for landmark detection. TAVI-PREP is designed to extract 22 different measurements from the aortic valvular complex. A total of 200 CT-scans were analyzed, and automatic measurements were compared to the ones made manually by an expert cardiologist. A second cardiologist analyzed 115 scans to evaluate inter-operator variability. RESULTS High Pearson correlation coefficients between the expert and the algorithm were obtained for most parameters (0.90-0.97), except for left and right coronary height (0.8 and 0.72, respectively). Similarly, the mean absolute relative error was within 5% for most measurements, except for left and right coronary height (11.6% and 16.5%, respectively). A greater consensus was observed among experts than when compared to the automatic approach, with TAVI-PREP showing no discernable bias towards either the lower or higher ends of the measurement spectrum. CONCLUSIONS TAVI-PREP provides reliable and time-efficient measurements of the aortic valvular complex that could aid clinicians in the preprocedural planning of TAVI procedures.
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- Marcel Santaló-Corcoy
- Montreal Heart Institute, Montreal, QC H1T 1C8, Canada
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Montreal, Montreal, QC H3T 1J4, Canada
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- Montreal Heart Institute, Montreal, QC H1T 1C8, Canada
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- Montreal Heart Institute, Montreal, QC H1T 1C8, Canada
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Montreal, Montreal, QC H3T 1J4, Canada
- Department of Electrical Engineering, Polytechnique Montreal, Montreal, QC H3T 1J4, Canada
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- Montreal Heart Institute, Montreal, QC H1T 1C8, Canada
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Montreal, Montreal, QC H3T 1J4, Canada
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- Montreal Heart Institute, Montreal, QC H1T 1C8, Canada
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Montreal, Montreal, QC H3T 1J4, Canada
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Decroocq M, Frindel C, Rougé P, Ohta M, Lavoué G. Modeling and hexahedral meshing of cerebral arterial networks from centerlines. Med Image Anal 2023; 89:102912. [PMID: 37549612 DOI: 10.1016/j.media.2023.102912] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/31/2021] [Revised: 06/12/2023] [Accepted: 07/25/2023] [Indexed: 08/09/2023]
Abstract
Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation provides valuable information on blood flow from the vascular geometry. However, it requires extracting precise models of arteries from low-resolution medical images, which remains challenging. Centerline-based representation is widely used to model large vascular networks with small vessels, as it encodes both the geometric and topological information and facilitates manual editing. In this work, we propose an automatic method to generate a structured hexahedral mesh suitable for CFD directly from centerlines. We addressed both the modeling and meshing tasks. We proposed a vessel model based on penalized splines to overcome the limitations inherent to the centerline representation, such as noise and sparsity. The bifurcations are reconstructed using a parametric model based on the anatomy that we extended to planar n-furcations. Finally, we developed a method to produce a volume mesh with structured, hexahedral, and flow-oriented cells from the proposed vascular network model. The proposed method offers better robustness to the common defects of centerlines and increases the mesh quality compared to state-of-the-art methods. As it relies on centerlines alone, it can be applied to edit the vascular model effortlessly to study the impact of vascular geometry and topology on hemodynamics. We demonstrate the efficiency of our method by entirely meshing a dataset of 60 cerebral vascular networks. 92% of the vessels and 83% of the bifurcations were meshed without defects needing manual intervention, despite the challenging aspect of the input data. The source code is released publicly.
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- Méghane Decroocq
- CREATIS, Université Lyon1, CNRS UMR5220, INSERM U1206, INSA-Lyon, 69621 Villeurbanne, France; LIRIS, CNRS UMR 5205, F-69621, France; ELyTMaX IRL3757, CNRS, INSA Lyon, Centrale Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Tohoku University, 980-8577, Sendai, Japan; Institute of Fluid Science, Tohoku University, 2-1-1, Katahira, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8577, Japan; Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering, Tohoku University, 6-6 Aramaki-aza-aoba, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8579, Japan
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- CREATIS, Université Lyon1, CNRS UMR5220, INSERM U1206, INSA-Lyon, 69621 Villeurbanne, France; Institute of Fluid Science, Tohoku University, 2-1-1, Katahira, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8577, Japan.
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- ELyTMaX IRL3757, CNRS, INSA Lyon, Centrale Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Tohoku University, 980-8577, Sendai, Japan; Université de Reims Champagne Ardenne, CReSTIC, 51100 Reims, France
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- ELyTMaX IRL3757, CNRS, INSA Lyon, Centrale Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Tohoku University, 980-8577, Sendai, Japan; Institute of Fluid Science, Tohoku University, 2-1-1, Katahira, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8577, Japan
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- LIRIS, CNRS UMR 5205, F-69621, France; Ecole Centrale de Lyon, France
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Fu S, Su D, Li S, Sun S, Tian Y. Linear-exponential loss incorporated deep learning for imbalanced classification. ISA TRANSACTIONS 2023; 140:279-292. [PMID: 37385859 DOI: 10.1016/j.isatra.2023.06.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/10/2022] [Revised: 05/24/2023] [Accepted: 06/16/2023] [Indexed: 07/01/2023]
Abstract
The class imbalance issue is a pretty common and enduring topic all the time. When encountering unbalanced data distribution, conventional methods are prone to classify minority samples as majority ones, which may cause severe consequences in reality. It is crucial yet challenging to cope with such problems. In this paper, inspired by our previous work, we borrow the linear-exponential (LINEX) loss function in statistics into deep learning for the first time and extend it into a multi-class form, denoted as DLINEX. Compared with existing loss functions in class imbalance learning (e.g., the weighted cross entropy-loss and the focal loss), DLINEX has an asymmetric geometry interpretation, which can adaptively focus more on the minority and hard-to-classify samples by solely adjusting one parameter. Besides, it simultaneously achieves between and within class diversities via caring about the inherent properties of each instance. As a result, DLINEX achieves 42.08% G-means on the CIFAR-10 dataset at the imbalance ratio of 200, 79.06% G-means on the HAM10000 dataset, 82.74% F1 on the DRIVE dataset, 83.93% F1 on the CHASEDB1 dataset and 79.55% F1 on the STARE dataset The quantitative and qualitative experiments convincingly demonstrate that DLINEX can work favorably in imbalanced classifications, either at the image-level or the pixel-level.
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- Saiji Fu
- School of Economics and Management, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, No. 10 Xitucheng Road, Haidian District, Beijing, 100876, China.
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- School of Computer Science and Technology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. 19 (A) Yuquan Road, Shijingshan District, Beijing, 100049, China; Research Center on Fictitious Economy and Data Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. 80 of Zhongguancun East Road, Haidian District, Beijing, 100190, China; Key Laboratory of Big Data Mining and Knowledge Management, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. 80 of Zhongguancun East Road, Haidian District, Beijing, 100190, China.
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- School of Mathematics, Renmin University of China, No. 59 Zhongguancun Street, Haidian District, Beijing, 100872, China.
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- School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. 19 (A) Yuquan Road, Shijingshan District, Beijing, 100049, China; Research Center on Fictitious Economy and Data Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. 80 of Zhongguancun East Road, Haidian District, Beijing, 100190, China; Key Laboratory of Big Data Mining and Knowledge Management, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. 80 of Zhongguancun East Road, Haidian District, Beijing, 100190, China.
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- School of Economics and Management, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. 80 of Zhongguancun East Road, Haidian District, Beijing, 100190, China; Research Center on Fictitious Economy and Data Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. 80 of Zhongguancun East Road, Haidian District, Beijing, 100190, China; Key Laboratory of Big Data Mining and Knowledge Management, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. 80 of Zhongguancun East Road, Haidian District, Beijing, 100190, China; MOE Social Science Laboratory of Digital Economic Forecasts and Policy Simulation at UCAS, No. 3 of Zhongguancun South Street 1, Haidian District, Beijing, 100190, China.
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Woo JP, Dong ML, Kong F, McElhinney DB, Schiavone N, Chan F, Lui GK, Haddad F, Bernstein D, Marsden A. Improved Right Ventricular Energy Efficiency by 4-Dimensional Flow Magnetic Resonance Imaging After Harmony Valve Implantation. JACC. ADVANCES 2023; 2:100284. [PMID: 37691969 PMCID: PMC10487049 DOI: 10.1016/j.jacadv.2023.100284] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 09/12/2023]
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- Stanford University School of Medicine, 300 Pasteur Drive, 3rd Floor, Clinic A32 Rm A345 – MC: 5844 Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Stanford University School of Medicine, 300 Pasteur Drive, 3rd Floor, Clinic A32 Rm A345 – MC: 5844 Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Stanford University School of Medicine, 300 Pasteur Drive, 3rd Floor, Clinic A32 Rm A345 – MC: 5844 Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Stanford University School of Medicine, 300 Pasteur Drive, 3rd Floor, Clinic A32 Rm A345 – MC: 5844 Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Stanford University School of Medicine, 300 Pasteur Drive, 3rd Floor, Clinic A32 Rm A345 – MC: 5844 Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Stanford University School of Medicine, 300 Pasteur Drive, 3rd Floor, Clinic A32 Rm A345 – MC: 5844 Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Stanford University School of Medicine, 300 Pasteur Drive, 3rd Floor, Clinic A32 Rm A345 – MC: 5844 Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Stanford University School of Medicine, 300 Pasteur Drive, 3rd Floor, Clinic A32 Rm A345 – MC: 5844 Stanford, California 94305, USA
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Schwarz EL, Pegolotti L, Pfaller MR, Marsden AL. Beyond CFD: Emerging methodologies for predictive simulation in cardiovascular health and disease. BIOPHYSICS REVIEWS 2023; 4:011301. [PMID: 36686891 PMCID: PMC9846834 DOI: 10.1063/5.0109400] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2022] [Accepted: 12/12/2022] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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Physics-based computational models of the cardiovascular system are increasingly used to simulate hemodynamics, tissue mechanics, and physiology in evolving healthy and diseased states. While predictive models using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) originated primarily for use in surgical planning, their application now extends well beyond this purpose. In this review, we describe an increasingly wide range of modeling applications aimed at uncovering fundamental mechanisms of disease progression and development, performing model-guided design, and generating testable hypotheses to drive targeted experiments. Increasingly, models are incorporating multiple physical processes spanning a wide range of time and length scales in the heart and vasculature. With these expanded capabilities, clinical adoption of patient-specific modeling in congenital and acquired cardiovascular disease is also increasing, impacting clinical care and treatment decisions in complex congenital heart disease, coronary artery disease, vascular surgery, pulmonary artery disease, and medical device design. In support of these efforts, we discuss recent advances in modeling methodology, which are most impactful when driven by clinical needs. We describe pivotal recent developments in image processing, fluid-structure interaction, modeling under uncertainty, and reduced order modeling to enable simulations in clinically relevant timeframes. In all these areas, we argue that traditional CFD alone is insufficient to tackle increasingly complex clinical and biological problems across scales and systems. Rather, CFD should be coupled with appropriate multiscale biological, physical, and physiological models needed to produce comprehensive, impactful models of mechanobiological systems and complex clinical scenarios. With this perspective, we finally outline open problems and future challenges in the field.
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- Erica L. Schwarz
- Departments of Pediatrics and Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Departments of Pediatrics and Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Departments of Pediatrics and Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Departments of Pediatrics and Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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Kong F, Shadden SC. Learning Whole Heart Mesh Generation From Patient Images for Computational Simulations. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MEDICAL IMAGING 2023; 42:533-545. [PMID: 36327186 DOI: 10.1109/tmi.2022.3219284] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Patient-specific cardiac modeling combines geometries of the heart derived from medical images and biophysical simulations to predict various aspects of cardiac function. However, generating simulation-suitable models of the heart from patient image data often requires complicated procedures and significant human effort. We present a fast and automated deep-learning method to construct simulation-suitable models of the heart from medical images. The approach constructs meshes from 3D patient images by learning to deform a small set of deformation handles on a whole heart template. For both 3D CT and MR data, this method achieves promising accuracy for whole heart reconstruction, consistently outperforming prior methods in constructing simulation-suitable meshes of the heart. When evaluated on time-series CT data, this method produced more anatomically and temporally consistent geometries than prior methods, and was able to produce geometries that better satisfy modeling requirements for cardiac flow simulations. Our source code and pretrained networks are available at https://github.com/fkong7/HeartDeformNets.
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Meng Y, Bridge J, Addison C, Wang M, Merritt C, Franks S, Mackey M, Messenger S, Sun R, Fitzmaurice T, McCann C, Li Q, Zhao Y, Zheng Y. Bilateral adaptive graph convolutional network on CT based Covid-19 diagnosis with uncertainty-aware consensus-assisted multiple instance learning. Med Image Anal 2023; 84:102722. [PMID: 36574737 PMCID: PMC9753459 DOI: 10.1016/j.media.2022.102722] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/11/2022] [Revised: 10/17/2022] [Accepted: 12/02/2022] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
Abstract
Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has caused a worldwide pandemic, putting millions of people's health and lives in jeopardy. Detecting infected patients early on chest computed tomography (CT) is critical in combating COVID-19. Harnessing uncertainty-aware consensus-assisted multiple instance learning (UC-MIL), we propose to diagnose COVID-19 using a new bilateral adaptive graph-based (BA-GCN) model that can use both 2D and 3D discriminative information in 3D CT volumes with arbitrary number of slices. Given the importance of lung segmentation for this task, we have created the largest manual annotation dataset so far with 7,768 slices from COVID-19 patients, and have used it to train a 2D segmentation model to segment the lungs from individual slices and mask the lungs as the regions of interest for the subsequent analyses. We then used the UC-MIL model to estimate the uncertainty of each prediction and the consensus between multiple predictions on each CT slice to automatically select a fixed number of CT slices with reliable predictions for the subsequent model reasoning. Finally, we adaptively constructed a BA-GCN with vertices from different granularity levels (2D and 3D) to aggregate multi-level features for the final diagnosis with the benefits of the graph convolution network's superiority to tackle cross-granularity relationships. Experimental results on three largest COVID-19 CT datasets demonstrated that our model can produce reliable and accurate COVID-19 predictions using CT volumes with any number of slices, which outperforms existing approaches in terms of learning and generalisation ability. To promote reproducible research, we have made the datasets, including the manual annotations and cleaned CT dataset, as well as the implementation code, available at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6361963.
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- Yanda Meng
- Department of Eye and Vision Science, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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- Department of Eye and Vision Science, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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- Advanced Research Computing, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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- Advanced Research Computing, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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- Alces Flight Limited, Bicester, United Kingdom
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- Amazon Web Services, 60 Holborn Viaduct, London, United Kingdom
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- Amazon Web Services, 60 Holborn Viaduct, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Radiology, Hubei Provincial Hospital of Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine, Hubei University of Chinese Medicine, Wuhan, China
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- Adult Cystic Fibrosis Unit, Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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- Radiology, Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, United Kingdom
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- The Affiliated People’s Hospital of Ningbo University, Ningbo, China
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- The Affiliated People's Hospital of Ningbo University, Ningbo, China; Cixi Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Science, Ningbo, China.
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- Department of Eye and Vision Science, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom; Liverpool Centre for Cardiovascular Science, University of Liverpool and Liverpool Heart & Chest Hospital, Liverpool, United Kingdom.
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Asheghan MM, Javadikasgari H, Attary T, Rouhollahi A, Straughan R, Willi JN, Awal R, Sabe A, de la Cruz KI, Nezami FR. Predicting one-year left ventricular mass index regression following transcatheter aortic valve replacement in patients with severe aortic stenosis: A new era is coming. Front Cardiovasc Med 2023; 10:1130152. [PMID: 37082454 PMCID: PMC10111021 DOI: 10.3389/fcvm.2023.1130152] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2022] [Accepted: 03/16/2023] [Indexed: 04/22/2023] Open
Abstract
Aortic stenosis (AS) is the most common valvular heart disease in the western world, particularly worrisome with an ever-aging population wherein postoperative outcome for aortic valve replacement is strongly related to the timing of surgery in the natural course of disease. Yet, guidelines for therapy planning overlook insightful, quantified measures from medical imaging to educate clinical decisions. Herein, we leverage statistical shape analysis (SSA) techniques combined with customized machine learning methods to extract latent information from segmented left ventricle (LV) shapes. This enabled us to predict left ventricular mass index (LVMI) regression a year after transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR). LVMI regression is an expected phenomena in patients undergone aortic valve replacement reported to be tightly correlated with survival one and five year after the intervention. In brief, LV geometries were extracted from medical images of a cohort of AS patients using deep learning tools, and then analyzed to create a set of statistical shape models (SSMs). Then, the supervised shape features were extracted to feed a support vector regression (SVR) model to predict the LVMI regression. The average accuracy of the predictions was validated against clinical measurements calculating root mean square error and R 2 score which yielded the satisfactory values of 0.28 and 0.67, respectively, on test data. Our work reveals the promising capability of advanced mathematical and bioinformatics approaches such as SSA and machine learning to improve medical output prediction and treatment planning.
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- Mohammad Mostafa Asheghan
- Division of Thoracic and Cardiac Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States
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- Division of Thoracic and Cardiac Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States
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- Bio-Intelligence Unit, Sharif Brain Center, Electrical Engineering Department, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
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- Division of Thoracic and Cardiac Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States
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- Division of Thoracic and Cardiac Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States
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- Division of Thoracic and Cardiac Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States
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- Mechanical Engineering Department, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Louisiana, LA, United States
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- Division of Thoracic and Cardiac Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States
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- Division of Thoracic and Cardiac Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States
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- Division of Thoracic and Cardiac Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States
- Correspondence: Farhad R. Nezami
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Laumer F, Amrani M, Manduchi L, Beuret A, Rubi L, Dubatovka A, Matter CM, Buhmann JM. Weakly supervised inference of personalized heart meshes based on echocardiography videos. Med Image Anal 2023; 83:102653. [PMID: 36327655 DOI: 10.1016/j.media.2022.102653] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2022] [Revised: 08/27/2022] [Accepted: 10/08/2022] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Echocardiography provides recordings of the heart chamber size and function and is a central tool for non-invasive diagnosis of heart diseases. It produces high-dimensional video data with substantial stochasticity in the measurements, which frequently prove difficult to interpret. To address this challenge, we propose an automated framework to enable the inference of a high resolution personalized 4D (3D plus time) surface mesh of the cardiac structures from 2D echocardiography video data. Inferring such shape models arises as a key step towards accurate personalized simulation that enables an automated assessment of the cardiac chamber morphology and function. The proposed method is trained using only unpaired echocardiography and heart mesh videos to find a mapping between these distinct visual domains in a self-supervised manner. The resulting model produces personalized 4D heart meshes, which exhibit a high correspondence with the input echocardiography videos. Furthermore, the 4D heart meshes enable the automatic extraction of echocardiographic variables, such as ejection fraction, myocardial muscle mass, and volumetric changes of chamber volumes over time with high temporal resolution.
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- Fabian Laumer
- Institute for Machine Learning at ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
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- Institute for Machine Learning at ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Institute for Machine Learning at ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Institute for Machine Learning at ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Institute for Machine Learning at ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Institute for Machine Learning at ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
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Beetz M, Corral Acero J, Banerjee A, Eitel I, Zacur E, Lange T, Stiermaier T, Evertz R, Backhaus SJ, Thiele H, Bueno-Orovio A, Lamata P, Schuster A, Grau V. Interpretable cardiac anatomy modeling using variational mesh autoencoders. Front Cardiovasc Med 2022; 9:983868. [PMID: 36620629 PMCID: PMC9813669 DOI: 10.3389/fcvm.2022.983868] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2022] [Accepted: 10/24/2022] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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Cardiac anatomy and function vary considerably across the human population with important implications for clinical diagnosis and treatment planning. Consequently, many computer-based approaches have been developed to capture this variability for a wide range of applications, including explainable cardiac disease detection and prediction, dimensionality reduction, cardiac shape analysis, and the generation of virtual heart populations. In this work, we propose a variational mesh autoencoder (mesh VAE) as a novel geometric deep learning approach to model such population-wide variations in cardiac shapes. It embeds multi-scale graph convolutions and mesh pooling layers in a hierarchical VAE framework to enable direct processing of surface mesh representations of the cardiac anatomy in an efficient manner. The proposed mesh VAE achieves low reconstruction errors on a dataset of 3D cardiac meshes from over 1,000 patients with acute myocardial infarction, with mean surface distances between input and reconstructed meshes below the underlying image resolution. We also find that it outperforms a voxelgrid-based deep learning benchmark in terms of both mean surface distance and Hausdorff distance while requiring considerably less memory. Furthermore, we explore the quality and interpretability of the mesh VAE's latent space and showcase its ability to improve the prediction of major adverse cardiac events over a clinical benchmark. Finally, we investigate the method's ability to generate realistic virtual populations of cardiac anatomies and find good alignment between the synthesized and gold standard mesh populations in terms of multiple clinical metrics.
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- Marcel Beetz
- Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- University Heart Center Lübeck, Medical Clinic II, Cardiology, Angiology, and Intensive Care Medicine, Lübeck, Germany
- University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Lübeck, Germany
- German Centre for Cardiovascular Research, Partner Site Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany
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- Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Department of Cardiology and Pneumology, University Medical Center Göttingen, Georg-August University, Göttingen, Germany
- German Centre for Cardiovascular Research, Partner Site Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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- University Heart Center Lübeck, Medical Clinic II, Cardiology, Angiology, and Intensive Care Medicine, Lübeck, Germany
- University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Lübeck, Germany
- German Centre for Cardiovascular Research, Partner Site Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany
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- Department of Cardiology and Pneumology, University Medical Center Göttingen, Georg-August University, Göttingen, Germany
- German Centre for Cardiovascular Research, Partner Site Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of Cardiology and Pneumology, University Medical Center Göttingen, Georg-August University, Göttingen, Germany
- German Centre for Cardiovascular Research, Partner Site Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of Internal Medicine/Cardiology, Heart Center Leipzig at University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
- Leipzig Heart Institute, Leipzig, Germany
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, King's College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Cardiology and Pneumology, University Medical Center Göttingen, Georg-August University, Göttingen, Germany
- German Centre for Cardiovascular Research, Partner Site Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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- Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Bui V, Hsu LY, Chang LC, Sun AY, Tran L, Shanbhag SM, Zhou W, Mehta NN, Chen MY. DeepHeartCT: A fully automatic artificial intelligence hybrid framework based on convolutional neural network and multi-atlas segmentation for multi-structure cardiac computed tomography angiography image segmentation. Front Artif Intell 2022; 5:1059007. [PMID: 36483981 PMCID: PMC9723331 DOI: 10.3389/frai.2022.1059007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2022] [Accepted: 11/03/2022] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
Abstract
Cardiac computed tomography angiography (CTA) is an emerging imaging modality for assessing coronary artery as well as various cardiovascular structures. Recently, deep learning (DL) methods have been successfully applied to many applications of medical image analysis including cardiac CTA structure segmentation. However, DL requires a large amounts of data and high-quality labels for training which can be burdensome to obtain due to its labor-intensive nature. In this study, we aim to develop a fully automatic artificial intelligence (AI) system, named DeepHeartCT, for accurate and rapid cardiac CTA segmentation based on DL. The proposed system was trained using a large clinical dataset with computer-generated labels to segment various cardiovascular structures including left and right ventricles (LV, RV), left and right atria (LA, RA), and LV myocardium (LVM). This new system was trained directly using high-quality computer labels generated from our previously developed multi-atlas based AI system. In addition, a reverse ranking strategy was proposed to assess the segmentation quality in the absence of manual reference labels. This strategy allowed the new framework to assemble optimal computer-generated labels from a large dataset for effective training of a deep convolutional neural network (CNN). A large clinical cardiac CTA studies (n = 1,064) were used to train and validate our framework. The trained model was then tested on another independent dataset with manual labels (n = 60). The Dice score, Hausdorff distance and mean surface distance were used to quantify the segmentation accuracy. The proposed DeepHeartCT framework yields a high median Dice score of 0.90 [interquartile range (IQR), 0.90-0.91], a low median Hausdorff distance of 7 mm (IQR, 4-15 mm) and a low mean surface distance of 0.80 mm (IQR, 0.57-1.29 mm) across all segmented structures. An additional experiment was conducted to evaluate the proposed DL-based AI framework trained with a small vs. large dataset. The results show our framework also performed well when trained on a small optimal training dataset (n = 110) with a significantly reduced training time. These results demonstrated that the proposed DeepHeartCT framework provides accurate and rapid cardiac CTA segmentation that can be readily generalized for handling large-scale medical imaging applications.
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- Vy Bui
- National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States
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- Radiology and Imaging Sciences, Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States,*Correspondence: Li-Yueh Hsu
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- Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, United States
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- National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States,Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, United States
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- National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States,Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, United States
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- National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States
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- National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States
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- National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States
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- National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States
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Li X, Liu X, Deng X, Fan Y. Interplay between Artificial Intelligence and Biomechanics Modeling in the Cardiovascular Disease Prediction. Biomedicines 2022; 10:2157. [PMID: 36140258 PMCID: PMC9495955 DOI: 10.3390/biomedicines10092157] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/13/2022] [Revised: 08/26/2022] [Accepted: 08/28/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the most common cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide, and early accurate diagnosis is the key point for improving and optimizing the prognosis of CVD. Recent progress in artificial intelligence (AI), especially machine learning (ML) technology, makes it possible to predict CVD. In this review, we first briefly introduced the overview development of artificial intelligence. Then we summarized some ML applications in cardiovascular diseases, including ML-based models to directly predict CVD based on risk factors or medical imaging findings and the ML-based hemodynamics with vascular geometries, equations, and methods for indirect assessment of CVD. We also discussed case studies where ML could be used as the surrogate for computational fluid dynamics in data-driven models and physics-driven models. ML models could be a surrogate for computational fluid dynamics, accelerate the process of disease prediction, and reduce manual intervention. Lastly, we briefly summarized the research difficulties and prospected the future development of AI technology in cardiovascular diseases.
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- Xiaoyin Li
- Beijing Advanced Innovation Centre for Biomedical Engineering, Key Laboratory for Biomechanics and Mechanobiology of Chinese Education Ministry, School of Biological Science and Medical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100083, China
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- Beijing Advanced Innovation Centre for Biomedical Engineering, Key Laboratory for Biomechanics and Mechanobiology of Chinese Education Ministry, School of Biological Science and Medical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100083, China
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- Beijing Advanced Innovation Centre for Biomedical Engineering, Key Laboratory for Biomechanics and Mechanobiology of Chinese Education Ministry, School of Biological Science and Medical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100083, China
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- Beijing Advanced Innovation Centre for Biomedical Engineering, Key Laboratory for Biomechanics and Mechanobiology of Chinese Education Ministry, School of Biological Science and Medical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100083, China
- School of Engineering Medicine, Beihang University, Beijing 100083, China
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3D-Printing to Plan Complex Transcatheter Paravalvular Leaks Closure. J Clin Med 2022; 11:jcm11164758. [PMID: 36012997 PMCID: PMC9410469 DOI: 10.3390/jcm11164758] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2022] [Revised: 08/03/2022] [Accepted: 08/08/2022] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Background: Percutaneous closure of paravalvular leak (PVL) has emerged as an alternative to surgical management in selected cases. Achieving complete PVL occlusion, while respecting prosthesis function remains challenging. A multimodal imaging analysis of PVL morphology before and during the procedure is mandatory to select an appropriate device. We aim to explore the additional value of 3D printing in predicting device related adverse events including mechanical valve leaflet blockade, risk of device embolization and residual shunting. Methods: From the FFPP registries (NCT05089136 and NCT05117359), we included 11 transcatheter PVL closure procedures from three centers for which 3D printed models were produced. Cardiac CT was used for segmentation for 3D printed models (3D-heartmodeling, Caissargues, France). Technology used a laser to fuse very fine powders (TPU Thermoplastic polyurethane) into a final part-laser sintering technology (SLS) with an adapted elasticity. A simulation on 3D printed model was performed using a set of occluders. Results: PVLs were located around aortic prostheses in six cases, mitral prostheses in four cases and tricuspid ring in one case. The device chosen during the simulation on the 3D printed model matched the one implanted in eight cases. In the three other cases, a similar device type was chosen during the procedures but with a different size. A risk of prosthesis leaflet blockade was identified on 3D printed models in four cases. During the procedure, the occluder was removed before release in one case. In another case the device was successfully repositioned and released. In two patients, leaflet impingement was observed post-operatively and surgical device removal had to be performed. Conclusion: In a case-series of complex transcatheter PVL closure procedures, hands-on simulation testing on 3D printed models proved its usefulness to plan and facilitate these challenging procedures.
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Zhao J, Zhao J, Pang S, Feng Q. Segmentation of the True Lumen of Aorta Dissection via Morphology-Constrained Stepwise Deep Mesh Regression. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MEDICAL IMAGING 2022; 41:1826-1836. [PMID: 35133960 DOI: 10.1109/tmi.2022.3150005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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The lumen of aortic dissection (AD) has important clinical value for preoperative diagnosis, interoperative intervention, and post-operative evaluation of AD diseases. AD segmentation is challenging because (i) fitting its irregular profile by using traditional models is difficult, and (ii) the size of the AD image is usually so big that many algorithms have to perform down-sampling to reduce the computational burden, thereby reducing the resolution of the result. In this paper, an automatic AD segmentation algorithm, in which a 3D mesh is gradually moved to the surface of AD based on the offset estimated by a deep mesh deformation module, is presented. AD morphology is used to constrain the initial mesh and guide the deformation, which improves the efficiency of the deep network and avoids down-sampling. Moreover, a stepwise regression strategy is introduced to solve the mesh folding problem and improve the uniformity of the mesh points. On an AD database that involves 35 images, the proposed method obtains the mean Dice of 94.12% and symmetric 95% Hausdorff distance of 2.85 mm, which outperforms five state-of-the-art AD segmentation methods. The average processing time is 16.6 s, and the memory used to train the network is only 0.36 GB, indicating that this method is easy to apply in clinical practice.
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Song Y, Ren S, Lu Y, Fu X, Wong KKL. Deep learning-based automatic segmentation of images in cardiac radiography: A promising challenge. COMPUTER METHODS AND PROGRAMS IN BIOMEDICINE 2022; 220:106821. [PMID: 35487181 DOI: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2022.106821] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/2020] [Revised: 04/08/2022] [Accepted: 04/17/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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BACKGROUND Due to the advancement of medical imaging and computer technology, machine intelligence to analyze clinical image data increases the probability of disease prevention and successful treatment. When diagnosing and detecting heart disease, medical imaging can provide high-resolution scans of every organ or tissue in the heart. The diagnostic results obtained by the imaging method are less susceptible to human interference. They can process numerous patient information, assist doctors in early detection of heart disease, intervene and treat patients, and improve the understanding of heart disease symptoms and clinical diagnosis of great significance. In a computer-aided diagnosis system, accurate segmentation of cardiac scan images is the basis and premise of subsequent thoracic function analysis and 3D image reconstruction. EXISTING TECHNIQUES This paper systematically reviews automatic methods and some difficulties for cardiac segmentation in radiographic images. Combined with recent advanced deep learning techniques, the feasibility of using deep learning network models for image segmentation is discussed, and the commonly used deep learning frameworks are compared. DEVELOPED INSIGHTS There are many standard methods for medical image segmentation, such as traditional methods based on regions and edges and methods based on deep learning. Because of characteristics of non-uniform grayscale, individual differences, artifacts and noise of medical images, the above image segmentation methods have certain limitations. It is tough to obtain the needed results sensitivity and accuracy when performing heart segmentation. The deep learning model proposed has achieved good results in image segmentation. Accurate segmentation improves the accuracy of disease diagnosis and reduces subsequent irrelevant computations. SUMMARY There are two requirements for accurate segmentation of radiological images. One is to use image segmentation to improve the development of computer-aided diagnosis. The other is to achieve complete segmentation of the heart. When there are lesions or deformities in the heart, there will be some abnormalities in the radiographic images, and the segmentation algorithm needs to segment the heart altogether. The quantity of processing inside a certain range will no longer be a restriction for real-time detection with the advancement of deep learning and the enhancement of hardware device performance.
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- Yucheng Song
- School of Computer Science and Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, China
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- School of Computer Science and Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, China
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- College of Big Data and Internet, Shenzhen Technology University, Shenzhen, China.
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- College of Big Data and Internet, Shenzhen Technology University, Shenzhen, China
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- School of Computer Science and Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, China.
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Machine Learning for Cardiovascular Biomechanics Modeling: Challenges and Beyond. Ann Biomed Eng 2022; 50:615-627. [PMID: 35445297 DOI: 10.1007/s10439-022-02967-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/08/2022] [Accepted: 04/07/2022] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Recent progress in machine learning (ML), together with advanced computational power, have provided new research opportunities in cardiovascular modeling. While classifying patient outcomes and medical image segmentation with ML have already shown significant promising results, ML for the prediction of biomechanics such as blood flow or tissue dynamics is in its infancy. This perspective article discusses some of the challenges in using ML for replacing well-established physics-based models in cardiovascular biomechanics. Specifically, we discuss the large landscape of input features in 3D patient-specific modeling as well as the high-dimensional output space of field variables that vary in space and time. We argue that the end purpose of such ML models needs to be clearly defined and the tradeoff between the loss in accuracy and the gained speedup carefully interpreted in the context of translational modeling. We also discuss several exciting venues where ML could be strategically used to augment traditional physics-based modeling in cardiovascular biomechanics. In these applications, ML is not replacing physics-based modeling, but providing opportunities to solve ill-defined problems, improve measurement data quality, enable a solution to computationally expensive problems, and interpret complex spatiotemporal data by extracting hidden patterns. In summary, we suggest a strategic integration of ML in cardiovascular biomechanics modeling where the ML model is not the end goal but rather a tool to facilitate enhanced modeling.
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Bruns S, Wolterink JM, van den Boogert TPW, Runge JH, Bouma BJ, Henriques JP, Baan J, Viergever MA, Planken RN, Išgum I. Deep learning-based whole-heart segmentation in 4D contrast-enhanced cardiac CT. Comput Biol Med 2021; 142:105191. [PMID: 35026571 DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2021.105191] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/14/2021] [Revised: 12/27/2021] [Accepted: 12/27/2021] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Automatic cardiac chamber and left ventricular (LV) myocardium segmentation over the cardiac cycle significantly extends the utilization of contrast-enhanced cardiac CT, potentially enabling in-depth assessment of cardiac function. Therefore, we evaluate an automatic method for cardiac chamber and LV myocardium segmentation in 4D cardiac CT. In this study, 4D contrast-enhanced cardiac CT scans of 1509 patients selected for transcatheter aortic valve implantation with 21,605 3D images, were divided into development (N = 12) and test set (N = 1497). 3D convolutional neural networks were trained with end-systolic (ES) and end-diastolic (ED) images. Dice similarity coefficient (DSC) and average symmetric surface distance (ASSD) were computed for 3D segmentations at ES and ED in the development set via cross-validation, and for 2D segmentations in four cardiac phases for 81 test set patients. Segmentation quality in the full test set of 1497 patients was assessed visually on a three-point scale per structure based on estimated overlap with the ground truth. Automatic segmentation resulted in a mean DSC of 0.89 ± 0.10 and ASSD of 1.43 ± 1.45 mm in 12 patients in 3D, and a DSC of 0.89 ± 0.08 and ASSD of 1.86 ± 1.20 mm in 81 patients in 2D. The qualitative evaluation in the whole test set of 1497 patients showed that automatic segmentations were assigned grade 1 (clinically useful) in 98.5%, 92.2%, 83.1%, 96.3%, and 91.6% of cases for LV cavity and myocardium, right ventricle, left atrium, and right atrium. Our automatic method using convolutional neural networks performed clinically useful segmentation across the cardiac cycle in a large set of 4D cardiac CT images, potentially enabling in-depth assessment of cardiac function.
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- Steffen Bruns
- Department of Biomedical Engineering and Physics, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Meibergdreef 9, 1105AZ, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Amsterdam Cardiovascular Sciences, Amsterdam UMC, Meibergdreef 9, 1105 AZ, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
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- Department of Applied Mathematics, Technical Medical Centre, University of Twente, Drienerlolaan 5, 7522 NB, Enschede, the Netherlands.
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- Heart Centre, Academic Medical Centre, Amsterdam Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Meibergdreef 9, 1105 AZ, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
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- Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Amsterdam UMC, Meibergdreef 9, 1105AZ, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
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- Department of Cardiology, Amsterdam UMC, Meibergdreef 9, 1105 AZ, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
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- Heart Centre, Academic Medical Centre, Amsterdam Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Meibergdreef 9, 1105 AZ, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
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- Department of Cardiology, Amsterdam UMC, Meibergdreef 9, 1105 AZ, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
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- Image Sciences Institute, University Medical Center Utrecht, Heidelberglaan 100, 3584 CX, Utrecht, the Netherlands.
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- Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Amsterdam UMC, Meibergdreef 9, 1105AZ, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering and Physics, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Meibergdreef 9, 1105AZ, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Amsterdam Cardiovascular Sciences, Amsterdam UMC, Meibergdreef 9, 1105 AZ, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Amsterdam UMC, Meibergdreef 9, 1105AZ, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
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