Deep Learning-Based Prediction of Fractional Flow Reserve along the Coronary Artery

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2308.04923v1
• Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2023 12:45:18 GMT
• Title: Deep Learning-Based Prediction of Fractional Flow Reserve along the Coronary Artery
• Authors: Nils Hampe, Sanne G. M. van Velzen, Jean-Paul Aben, Carlos Collet, Ivana I\v{s}gum
• Abstract summary: Functionally significant coronary artery disease (CAD) is caused by plaque buildup in the coronary arteries. The current reference for establishing the presence of a functionally significant stenosis is invasive fractional flow reserve (FFR) measurement. To avoid invasive measurements, non-invasive prediction of FFR from coronary CT angiography (CCTA) has emerged. We propose a deep learning-based method to predict the FFR along the artery from CCTA scans.
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• Abstract: Functionally significant coronary artery disease (CAD) is caused by plaque buildup in the coronary arteries, potentially leading to narrowing of the arterial lumen, i.e. coronary stenosis, that significantly obstructs blood flow to the myocardium. The current reference for establishing the presence of a functionally significant stenosis is invasive fractional flow reserve (FFR) measurement. To avoid invasive measurements, non-invasive prediction of FFR from coronary CT angiography (CCTA) has emerged. For this, machine learning approaches, characterized by fast inference, are increasingly developed. However, these methods predict a single FFR value per artery i.e. they don't provide information about the stenosis location or treatment strategy. We propose a deep learning-based method to predict the FFR along the artery from CCTA scans. This study includes CCTA images of 110 patients who underwent invasive FFR pullback measurement in 112 arteries. First, a multi planar reconstruction (MPR) of the artery is fed to a variational autoencoder to characterize the artery, i.e. through the lumen area and unsupervised artery encodings. Thereafter, a convolutional neural network (CNN) predicts the FFR along the artery. The CNN is supervised by multiple loss functions, notably a loss function inspired by the Earth Mover's Distance (EMD) to predict the correct location of FFR drops and a histogram-based loss to explicitly supervise the slope of the FFR curve. To train and evaluate our model, eight-fold cross-validation was performed. The resulting FFR curves show good agreement with the reference allowing the distinction between diffuse and focal CAD distributions in most cases. Quantitative evaluation yielded a mean absolute difference in the area under the FFR pullback curve (AUPC) of 1.7. The method may pave the way towards fast, accurate, automatic prediction of FFR along the artery from CCTA.

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