Clinically Aligned Geometry Constraints for Robust IVUS Vessel Boundary Segmentation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.18723v1
• Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2026 06:02:01 GMT
• Title: Clinically Aligned Geometry Constraints for Robust IVUS Vessel Boundary Segmentation
• Abstract summary: Intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) segmentation is important for quantitative coronary plaque burden assessment.<n>Standard methods prioritising overlap scores often suffer from boundary drift and topology errors, leading to inaccurate clinical measurements.<n>We present GeoCat, a geometry-consistent network that processes 5-frame IVUS clips using dual Cartesian-polar encoders with cross-domain attention and temporal fusion.<n>We evaluate performance using both segmentation accuracy and plaque-relevant clinical metrics, including Dice/IoU, boundary measures(95HD), ASSD, topology violation rate, and clinical geometry errors (dmax/dmin, angles, and areas)
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: Intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) lumen and external elastic membrane (EEM) segmentation is important for quantitative coronary plaque burden assessment. Errors in lumen or EEM delineation directly propagate to plaque area, plaque burden and geometric measurements. However, standard methods prioritising overlap scores often suffer from boundary drift and topology errors, leading to inaccurate clinical measurements. We present GeoCat, a geometry-consistent network that processes 5-frame IVUS clips using dual Cartesian-polar encoders with cross-domain attention and temporal fusion. A differentiable geometry consistency loss directly supervises clinically relevant descriptors including diameters, orientations, and cross-sectional areas. The model is trained on 12,242 annotated frames from 146 patients acquired with two commercial IVUS systems. We evaluate performance using both segmentation accuracy and plaque-relevant clinical metrics, including Dice/IoU, boundary measures(95HD (mm), ASSD), topology violation rate, and clinical geometry errors (dmax/dmin, angles, and areas). On our dataset, GeoCat achieves a Dice of 0.93, reduces 95HD to 0.14 mm, and lowers topology violations to 1.0%. Importantly, it significantly improves geometric fidelity, yielding diameter errors of 0.13-0.16 mm and angular errors of ~8 degrees, supporting reliable plaque burden quantification.

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