Anatomically-Informed Deep Learning on Contrast-Enhanced Cardiac MRI for Scar Segmentation and Clinical Feature Extraction

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2010.11081v2
• Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2021 21:04:30 GMT
• Title: Anatomically-Informed Deep Learning on Contrast-Enhanced Cardiac MRI for Scar Segmentation and Clinical Feature Extraction
• Authors: Haley G. Abramson, Dan M. Popescu, Rebecca Yu, Changxin Lai, Julie K. Shade, Katherine C. Wu, Mauro Maggioni, Natalia A. Trayanova
• Abstract summary: Visualizing disease-induced scarring and fibrosis in the heart on cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging with contrast enhancement (LGE) is paramount in characterizing disease progression and quantifying pathophysiological substrates of arrhythmias. Here, we present a novel fully-automated deep learning solution for left ventricle (LV) and scar/fibrosis segmentation and clinical feature extraction from LGE-CMR. The technology involves three cascading convolutional neural networks that segment myocardium and scar/fibrosis from raw LGE-CMR images and constrain these segmentations within anatomical guidelines.
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• Abstract: Visualizing disease-induced scarring and fibrosis in the heart on cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging with contrast enhancement (LGE) is paramount in characterizing disease progression and quantifying pathophysiological substrates of arrhythmias. However, segmentation and scar/fibrosis identification from LGE-CMR is an intensive manual process prone to large inter-observer variability. Here, we present a novel fully-automated anatomically-informed deep learning solution for left ventricle (LV) and scar/fibrosis segmentation and clinical feature extraction from LGE-CMR. The technology involves three cascading convolutional neural networks that segment myocardium and scar/fibrosis from raw LGE-CMR images and constrain these segmentations within anatomical guidelines, thus facilitating seamless derivation of clinically-significant parameters. In addition to available LGE-CMR images, training used "LGE-like" synthetically enhanced cine scans. Results show excellent agreement with those of trained experts in terms of segmentation (balanced accuracy of $96\%$ and $75\%$ for LV and scar segmentation), clinical features ($2\%$ difference in mean scar-to-LV wall volume fraction), and anatomical fidelity. Our segmentation technology is extendable to other computer vision medical applications and to problems requiring guidelines adherence of predicted outputs.

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