Volumetric parcellation of the right ventricle for regional geometric and functional assessment

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2003.08423v3
• Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2021 17:35:20 GMT
• Title: Volumetric parcellation of the right ventricle for regional geometric and functional assessment
• Authors: Gabriel Bernardino, Amir Hodzic, Helene Langet, Damien LeGallois, Mathieu De Craene, Miguel Angel Gonz\'alez Ballester, Eric Saloux, Bart Bijnens
• Abstract summary: We developed a technique for regionally assessing the 3 relevant RV regions: apical, inlet and outflow. The method's inputs are end-diastolic (ED) and end-systolic (ES) segmented 3D surface models. We show that the parcellation method is adequate for capturing local circumferential and global circumferential and longitudinal RV remodelling.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: 3D echocardiography is an increasingly popular tool for assessing cardiac remodelling in the right ventricle (RV). It allows quantification of the cardiac chambers without any geometric assumptions, which is the main weakness of 2D echocardiography. However, regional quantification of geometry and function is limited by the lower spatial and temporal resolution and the scarcity of identifiable anatomical landmarks. We developed a technique for regionally assessing the 3 relevant RV regions: apical, inlet and outflow. The method's inputs are end-diastolic (ED) and end-systolic (ES) segmented 3D surface models. The method first defines a partition of the ED endocardium using the geodesic distances from each surface point to apex, tricuspid valve and pulmonary valve: the landmarks that define the 3 regions. The ED surface mesh is then tetrahedralised, and the endocardial-defined partition is interpolated in the blood cavity via the Laplace equation. For obtaining an ES partition, the endocardial partition is transported from ED to ES using a commercial image-based tracking, and then interpolated towards the endocardium, similarly to ED, for computing volumes and ejection fraction (EF). We present a full assessment of the method's validity and reproducibility. First, we assess reproducibility under segmentation variability, obtaining intra- and inter- observer errors (4-10% and 10-23% resp.). Finally, we use a synthetic remodelling dataset to identify the situations in which our method is able to correctly determine the region that has remodelled. This dataset is generated by a novel mesh reconstruction method that deforms a reference mesh, locally imposing a given strain, expressed in anatomical coordinates. We show that the parcellation method is adequate for capturing local circumferential and global circumferential and longitudinal RV remodelling.

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