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Li L. Toward Enabling Cardiac Digital Twins of Myocardial Infarction Using Deep Computational Models for Inverse Inference. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MEDICAL IMAGING 2024; 43:2466-2478. [PMID: 38373128 PMCID: PMC7616288 DOI: 10.1109/tmi.2024.3367409] [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: 02/21/2024]
Abstract
Cardiac digital twins (CDTs) have the potential to offer individualized evaluation of cardiac function in a non-invasive manner, making them a promising approach for personalized diagnosis and treatment planning of myocardial infarction (MI). The inference of accurate myocardial tissue properties is crucial in creating a reliable CDT of MI. In this work, we investigate the feasibility of inferring myocardial tissue properties from the electrocardiogram (ECG) within a CDT platform. The platform integrates multi-modal data, such as cardiac MRI and ECG, to enhance the accuracy and reliability of the inferred tissue properties. We perform a sensitivity analysis based on computer simulations, systematically exploring the effects of infarct location, size, degree of transmurality, and electrical activity alteration on the simulated QRS complex of ECG, to establish the limits of the approach. We subsequently present a novel deep computational model, comprising a dual-branch variational autoencoder and an inference model, to infer infarct location and distribution from the simulated QRS. The proposed model achieves mean Dice scores of 0.457 ±0.317 and 0.302 ±0.273 for the inference of left ventricle scars and border zone, respectively. The sensitivity analysis enhances our understanding of the complex relationship between infarct characteristics and electrophysiological features. The in silico experimental results show that the model can effectively capture the relationship for the inverse inference, with promising potential for clinical application in the future. The code is available at https://github.com/lileitech/MI_inverse_inference.
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Affiliation(s)
- Lei Li
- Department of Engineering Science, Institute of Biomedical
Engineering, University of Oxford, OX3 7DQ,
Oxford, U.K.
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Jiao R, Zhang Y, Ding L, Xue B, Zhang J, Cai R, Jin C. Learning with limited annotations: A survey on deep semi-supervised learning for medical image segmentation. Comput Biol Med 2024; 169:107840. [PMID: 38157773 DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2023.107840] [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: 07/18/2023] [Revised: 10/30/2023] [Accepted: 12/07/2023] [Indexed: 01/03/2024]
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Medical image segmentation is a fundamental and critical step in many image-guided clinical approaches. Recent success of deep learning-based segmentation methods usually relies on a large amount of labeled data, which is particularly difficult and costly to obtain, especially in the medical imaging domain where only experts can provide reliable and accurate annotations. Semi-supervised learning has emerged as an appealing strategy and been widely applied to medical image segmentation tasks to train deep models with limited annotations. In this paper, we present a comprehensive review of recently proposed semi-supervised learning methods for medical image segmentation and summarize both the technical novelties and empirical results. Furthermore, we analyze and discuss the limitations and several unsolved problems of existing approaches. We hope this review can inspire the research community to explore solutions to this challenge and further advance the field of medical image segmentation.
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- Rushi Jiao
- School of Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China; School of Engineering Medicine, Beihang University, Beijing, 100191, China; Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Shanghai, 200232, China.
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- School of Data Science, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200433, China; Artificial Intelligence Innovation and Incubation Institute, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200433, China.
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- School of Biological Science and Medical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, 100191, China.
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- School of Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China; Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Shanghai, 200232, China.
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- School of Biological Science and Medical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, 100191, China; Hefei Innovation Research Institute, Beihang University, Hefei, 230012, China.
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- School of Engineering Medicine, Beihang University, Beijing, 100191, China; Key Laboratory for Biomechanics and Mechanobiology of Ministry of Education, Beihang University, Beijing, 100191, China.
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- School of Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China; Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Shanghai, 200232, China; Beijing Anding Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, 100088, China.
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Zhang Y, Wang Y, Xu L, Yao Y, Qian W, Qi L. ST-GAN: A Swin Transformer-Based Generative Adversarial Network for Unsupervised Domain Adaptation of Cross-Modality Cardiac Segmentation. IEEE J Biomed Health Inform 2024; 28:893-904. [PMID: 38019618 DOI: 10.1109/jbhi.2023.3336965] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2023]
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Unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) methods have shown great potential in cross-modality medical image segmentation tasks, where target domain labels are unavailable. However, the domain shift among different image modalities remains challenging, because the conventional UDA methods are based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs), which tend to focus on the texture of images and cannot establish the global semantic relevance of features due to the locality of CNNs. This paper proposes a novel end-to-end Swin Transformer-based generative adversarial network (ST-GAN) for cross-modality cardiac segmentation. In the generator of ST-GAN, we utilize the local receptive fields of CNNs to capture spatial information and introduce the Swin Transformer to extract global semantic information, which enables the generator to better extract the domain-invariant features in UDA tasks. In addition, we design a multi-scale feature fuser to sufficiently fuse the features acquired at different stages and improve the robustness of the UDA network. We extensively evaluated our method with two cross-modality cardiac segmentation tasks on the MS-CMR 2019 dataset and the M&Ms dataset. The results of two different tasks show the validity of ST-GAN compared with the state-of-the-art cross-modality cardiac image segmentation methods.
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Lecesne E, Simon A, Garreau M, Barone-Rochette G, Fouard C. Segmentation of cardiac infarction in delayed-enhancement MRI using probability map and transformers-based neural networks. COMPUTER METHODS AND PROGRAMS IN BIOMEDICINE 2023; 242:107841. [PMID: 37865006 DOI: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2023.107841] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2023] [Revised: 09/15/2023] [Accepted: 10/01/2023] [Indexed: 10/23/2023]
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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Automatic segmentation of myocardial infarction is of great clinical interest for the quantitative evaluation of myocardial infarction (MI). Late Gadolinium Enhancement cardiac MRI (LGE-MRI) is commonly used in clinical practice to quantify MI, which is crucial for clinical diagnosis and treatment of cardiac diseases. However, the segmentation of infarcted tissue in LGE-MRI is highly challenging due to its high anisotropy and inhomogeneities. METHODS The innovative aspect of our work lies in the utilization of a probability map of the healthy myocardium to guide the localization of infarction, as well as the combination of 2D U-Net and U-Net transformers to achieve the final segmentation. Instead of employing a binary segmentation map, we propose using a probability map of the normal myocardium, obtained through a dedicated 2D U-Net. To leverage spatial information, we employ a U-Net transformers network where we incorporate the probability map into the original image as an additional input. Then, To address the limitations of U-Net in segmenting accurately the contours, we introduce an adapted loss function. RESULTS Our method has been evaluated on the 2020 MICCAI EMIDEC challenge dataset, yielding competitive results. Specifically, we achieved a Dice score of 92.94% for the myocardium and 92.36% for the infarction. These outcomes highlight the competitiveness of our approach. CONCLUSION In the case of the infarction class, our proposed method outperforms state-of-the-art techniques across all metrics evaluated in the challenge, establishing its superior performance in infarction segmentation. This study further reinforces the importance of integrating a contour loss into the segmentation process.
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- Erwan Lecesne
- Univ Rennes, Inserm, LTSI - UMR 1099, Rennes, 35000, France.
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- Univ Rennes, Inserm, LTSI - UMR 1099, Rennes, 35000, France
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- Clinic of Cardiology, Cardiovascular and Thoracic Department, University Hospital of Grenoble, Grenoble, 38000, France
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- Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, UMR 5525, VetAgro Sup, Grenoble INP, TIMC, Grenoble, 38000, France
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Li L, Ding W, Huang L, Zhuang X, Grau V. Multi-modality cardiac image computing: A survey. Med Image Anal 2023; 88:102869. [PMID: 37384950 DOI: 10.1016/j.media.2023.102869] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2022] [Revised: 05/01/2023] [Accepted: 06/12/2023] [Indexed: 07/01/2023]
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Multi-modality cardiac imaging plays a key role in the management of patients with cardiovascular diseases. It allows a combination of complementary anatomical, morphological and functional information, increases diagnosis accuracy, and improves the efficacy of cardiovascular interventions and clinical outcomes. Fully-automated processing and quantitative analysis of multi-modality cardiac images could have a direct impact on clinical research and evidence-based patient management. However, these require overcoming significant challenges including inter-modality misalignment and finding optimal methods to integrate information from different modalities. This paper aims to provide a comprehensive review of multi-modality imaging in cardiology, the computing methods, the validation strategies, the related clinical workflows and future perspectives. For the computing methodologies, we have a favored focus on the three tasks, i.e., registration, fusion and segmentation, which generally involve multi-modality imaging data, either combining information from different modalities or transferring information across modalities. The review highlights that multi-modality cardiac imaging data has the potential of wide applicability in the clinic, such as trans-aortic valve implantation guidance, myocardial viability assessment, and catheter ablation therapy and its patient selection. Nevertheless, many challenges remain unsolved, such as missing modality, modality selection, combination of imaging and non-imaging data, and uniform analysis and representation of different modalities. There is also work to do in defining how the well-developed techniques fit in clinical workflows and how much additional and relevant information they introduce. These problems are likely to continue to be an active field of research and the questions to be answered in the future.
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- Lei Li
- Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
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- College of Physics and Information Engineering, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, China
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- College of Physics and Information Engineering, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, China
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- School of Data Science, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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Huang Y, Jiao J, Yu J, Zheng Y, Wang Y. RsALUNet: A reinforcement supervision U-Net-based framework for multi-ROI segmentation of medical images. Biomed Signal Process Control 2023. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bspc.2023.104743] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/27/2023]
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