GReAT: leveraging geometric artery data to improve wall shear stress assessment

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19030v1
• Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2025 13:47:13 GMT
• Title: GReAT: leveraging geometric artery data to improve wall shear stress assessment
• Abstract summary: We create a self-supervised target for the 3D blood vessels by computing the heat kernel signature.<n>We show how geometric representations learned from this datasets can boost segmentation of coronary arteries.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Leveraging big data for patient care is promising in many medical fields such as cardiovascular health. For example, hemodynamic biomarkers like wall shear stress could be assessed from patient-specific medical images via machine learning algorithms, bypassing the need for time-intensive computational fluid simulation. However, it is extremely challenging to amass large-enough datasets to effectively train such models. We could address this data scarcity by means of self-supervised pre-training and foundations models given large datasets of geometric artery models. In the context of coronary arteries, leveraging learned representations to improve hemodynamic biomarker assessment has not yet been well studied. In this work, we address this gap by investigating whether a large dataset (8449 shapes) consisting of geometric models of 3D blood vessels can benefit wall shear stress assessment in coronary artery models from a small-scale clinical trial (49 patients). We create a self-supervised target for the 3D blood vessels by computing the heat kernel signature, a quantity obtained via Laplacian eigenvectors, which captures the very essence of the shapes. We show how geometric representations learned from this datasets can boost segmentation of coronary arteries into regions of low, mid and high (time-averaged) wall shear stress even when trained on limited data.

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