Automated Measurement of Vascular Calcification in Femoral Endarterectomy Patients Using Deep Learning

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2311.16001v1
• Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2023 16:47:09 GMT
• Title: Automated Measurement of Vascular Calcification in Femoral Endarterectomy Patients Using Deep Learning
• Authors: Alireza Bagheri Rajeoni, Breanna Pederson, Daniel G. Clair, Susan M. Lessner, Homayoun Valafar
• Abstract summary: Atherosclerosis, a chronic inflammatory disease affecting the large arteries, presents a global health risk. We employed a deep learning model to segment the vascular system in computed tomographic angiograms (CTAs) images. Our model achieved 83.4% average Dice accuracy in segmenting arteries from aorta to patella, advancing the state-of-the-art by 0.8%.
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• Abstract: Atherosclerosis, a chronic inflammatory disease affecting the large arteries, presents a global health risk. Accurate analysis of diagnostic images, like computed tomographic angiograms (CTAs), is essential for staging and monitoring the progression of atherosclerosis-related conditions, including peripheral arterial disease (PAD). However, manual analysis of CTA images is time-consuming and tedious. To address this limitation, we employed a deep learning model to segment the vascular system in CTA images of PAD patients undergoing femoral endarterectomy surgery and to measure vascular calcification from the left renal artery to the patella. Utilizing proprietary CTA images of 27 patients undergoing femoral endarterectomy surgery provided by Prisma Health Midlands, we developed a Deep Neural Network (DNN) model to first segment the arterial system, starting from the descending aorta to the patella, and second, to provide a metric of arterial calcification. Our designed DNN achieved 83.4% average Dice accuracy in segmenting arteries from aorta to patella, advancing the state-of-the-art by 0.8%. Furthermore, our work is the first to present a robust statistical analysis of automated calcification measurement in the lower extremities using deep learning, attaining a Mean Absolute Percentage Error (MAPE) of 9.5% and a correlation coefficient of 0.978 between automated and manual calcification scores. These findings underscore the potential of deep learning techniques as a rapid and accurate tool for medical professionals to assess calcification in the abdominal aorta and its branches above the patella. The developed DNN model and related documentation in this project are available at GitHub page at https://github.com/pip-alireza/DeepCalcScoring.

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