GEMTrans: A General, Echocardiography-based, Multi-Level Transformer Framework for Cardiovascular Diagnosis

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2308.13217v1
• Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2023 07:30:18 GMT
• Title: GEMTrans: A General, Echocardiography-based, Multi-Level Transformer Framework for Cardiovascular Diagnosis
• Authors: Masoud Mokhtari, Neda Ahmadi, Teresa S. M. Tsang, Purang Abolmaesumi, Renjie Liao
• Abstract summary: Vision-based machine learning (ML) methods have gained popularity to act as secondary layers of verification. We propose a General, Echo-based, Multi-Level Transformer (GEMTrans) framework that provides explainability. We show the flexibility of our framework by considering two critical tasks including ejection fraction (EF) and aortic stenosis (AS) severity detection.
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• Abstract: Echocardiography (echo) is an ultrasound imaging modality that is widely used for various cardiovascular diagnosis tasks. Due to inter-observer variability in echo-based diagnosis, which arises from the variability in echo image acquisition and the interpretation of echo images based on clinical experience, vision-based machine learning (ML) methods have gained popularity to act as secondary layers of verification. For such safety-critical applications, it is essential for any proposed ML method to present a level of explainability along with good accuracy. In addition, such methods must be able to process several echo videos obtained from various heart views and the interactions among them to properly produce predictions for a variety of cardiovascular measurements or interpretation tasks. Prior work lacks explainability or is limited in scope by focusing on a single cardiovascular task. To remedy this, we propose a General, Echo-based, Multi-Level Transformer (GEMTrans) framework that provides explainability, while simultaneously enabling multi-video training where the inter-play among echo image patches in the same frame, all frames in the same video, and inter-video relationships are captured based on a downstream task. We show the flexibility of our framework by considering two critical tasks including ejection fraction (EF) and aortic stenosis (AS) severity detection. Our model achieves mean absolute errors of 4.15 and 4.84 for single and dual-video EF estimation and an accuracy of 96.5 % for AS detection, while providing informative task-specific attention maps and prototypical explainability.

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