Fully‑automated deep‑learning segmentation of pediatric cardiovascular magnetic resonance of patients with complex congenital heart diseases

Autor: Arash Kheradvar, Saeed Karimi-Bidhendi, Andrew L. Cheng, Yilei Wu, Hamid Jafarkhani, Arghavan Arafati
Rok vydání: 2020
Předmět:
Male
lcsh:Diseases of the circulatory (Cardiovascular) system
Generative adversarial networks
Statistical difference
030204 cardiovascular system & hematology
Cardiorespiratory Medicine and Haematology
Cardiovascular
Accurate segmentation
030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging
Workflow
Congenital
Automation
Computer-Assisted
0302 clinical medicine
Segmentation
Fully convolutional networks
Child
Heart Defects
Pediatric
screening and diagnosis
Radiological and Ultrasound Technology
medicine.diagnostic_test
Age Factors
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Detection
Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging
Heart Disease
Fully automated
Child
Preschool

Metric (mathematics)
Biomedical Imaging
Female
Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
Complex CHD analysis
4.2 Evaluation of markers and technologies
Heart Defects
Congenital

Adolescent
Bioengineering
03 medical and health sciences
Predictive Value of Tests
Image Interpretation
Computer-Assisted

Machine learning
medicine
Humans
Radiology
Nuclear Medicine and imaging

Preschool
Image Interpretation
business.industry
Deep learning
Research
Reproducibility of Results
Magnetic resonance imaging
Pattern recognition
CMR image analysis
Hausdorff distance
lcsh:RC666-701
Artificial intelligence
business
Zdroj: Journal of cardiovascular magnetic resonance : official journal of the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, vol 22, iss 1
Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance
Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, Vol 22, Iss 1, Pp 1-24 (2020)
Popis: Background For the growing patient population with congenital heart disease (CHD), improving clinical workflow, accuracy of diagnosis, and efficiency of analyses are considered unmet clinical needs. Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging offers non-invasive and non-ionizing assessment of CHD patients. However, although CMR data facilitates reliable analysis of cardiac function and anatomy, clinical workflow mostly relies on manual analysis of CMR images, which is time consuming. Thus, an automated and accurate segmentation platform exclusively dedicated to pediatric CMR images can significantly improve the clinical workflow, as the present work aims to establish. Methods Training artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms for CMR analysis requires large annotated datasets, which are not readily available for pediatric subjects and particularly in CHD patients. To mitigate this issue, we devised a novel method that uses a generative adversarial network (GAN) to synthetically augment the training dataset via generating synthetic CMR images and their corresponding chamber segmentations. In addition, we trained and validated a deep fully convolutional network (FCN) on a dataset, consisting of $$64$$ 64 pediatric subjects with complex CHD, which we made publicly available. Dice metric, Jaccard index and Hausdorff distance as well as clinically-relevant volumetric indices are reported to assess and compare our platform with other algorithms including U-Net and cvi42, which is used in clinics. Results For congenital CMR dataset, our FCN model yields an average Dice metric of $$91.0\mathrm{\%}$$ 91.0 % and $$86.8\mathrm{\%}$$ 86.8 % for LV at end-diastole and end-systole, respectively, and $$84.7\mathrm{\%}$$ 84.7 % and $$80.6\mathrm{\%}$$ 80.6 % for RV at end-diastole and end-systole, respectively. Using the same dataset, the cvi42, resulted in $$73.2\mathrm{\%}$$ 73.2 % , $$71.0\mathrm{\%}$$ 71.0 % , $$54.3\mathrm{\%}$$ 54.3 % and $$53.7\mathrm{\%}$$ 53.7 % for LV and RV at end-diastole and end-systole, and the U-Net architecture resulted in $$87.4\mathrm{\%}$$ 87.4 % , $$83.9\mathrm{\%}$$ 83.9 % , $$81.8\mathrm{\%}$$ 81.8 % and $$74.8\mathrm{\%}$$ 74.8 % for LV and RV at end-diastole and end-systole, respectively. Conclusions The chambers’ segmentation results from our fully-automated method showed strong agreement with manual segmentation and no significant statistical difference was found by two independent statistical analyses. Whereas cvi42 and U-Net segmentation results failed to pass the t-test. Relying on these outcomes, it can be inferred that by taking advantage of GANs, our method is clinically relevant and can be used for pediatric and congenital CMR segmentation and analysis.
Databáze: OpenAIRE