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Main Authors: Huang, Zhe, Yu, Xiaowei, Wessler, Benjamin S., Hughes, Michael C.
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.06024
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author Huang, Zhe
Yu, Xiaowei
Wessler, Benjamin S.
Hughes, Michael C.
author_facet Huang, Zhe
Yu, Xiaowei
Wessler, Benjamin S.
Hughes, Michael C.
contents Automated interpretation of ultrasound imaging of the heart (echocardiograms) could improve the detection and treatment of aortic stenosis (AS), a deadly heart disease. However, existing deep learning pipelines for assessing AS from echocardiograms have two key limitations. First, most methods rely on limited 2D cineloops, thereby ignoring widely available Doppler imaging that contains important complementary information about pressure gradients and blood flow abnormalities associated with AS. Second, obtaining labeled data is difficult. There are often far more unlabeled echocardiogram recordings available, but these remain underutilized by existing methods. To overcome these limitations, we introduce Semi-supervised Multimodal Multiple-Instance Learning (SMMIL), a new deep learning framework for automatic interpretation for structural heart diseases like AS. When deployed, SMMIL can combine information from two input modalities, spectral Dopplers and 2D cineloops, to produce a study-level AS diagnosis. During training, SMMIL can combine a smaller labeled set and an abundant unlabeled set of both modalities to improve its classifier. Experiments demonstrate that SMMIL outperforms recent alternatives at 3-level AS severity classification as well as several clinically relevant AS detection tasks.
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spellingShingle Semi-Supervised Multimodal Multi-Instance Learning for Aortic Stenosis Diagnosis
Huang, Zhe
Yu, Xiaowei
Wessler, Benjamin S.
Hughes, Michael C.
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Emerging Technologies
Machine Learning
Automated interpretation of ultrasound imaging of the heart (echocardiograms) could improve the detection and treatment of aortic stenosis (AS), a deadly heart disease. However, existing deep learning pipelines for assessing AS from echocardiograms have two key limitations. First, most methods rely on limited 2D cineloops, thereby ignoring widely available Doppler imaging that contains important complementary information about pressure gradients and blood flow abnormalities associated with AS. Second, obtaining labeled data is difficult. There are often far more unlabeled echocardiogram recordings available, but these remain underutilized by existing methods. To overcome these limitations, we introduce Semi-supervised Multimodal Multiple-Instance Learning (SMMIL), a new deep learning framework for automatic interpretation for structural heart diseases like AS. When deployed, SMMIL can combine information from two input modalities, spectral Dopplers and 2D cineloops, to produce a study-level AS diagnosis. During training, SMMIL can combine a smaller labeled set and an abundant unlabeled set of both modalities to improve its classifier. Experiments demonstrate that SMMIL outperforms recent alternatives at 3-level AS severity classification as well as several clinically relevant AS detection tasks.
title Semi-Supervised Multimodal Multi-Instance Learning for Aortic Stenosis Diagnosis
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Emerging Technologies
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.06024