Improving the Scan-rescan Precision of AI-based CMR Biomarker Estimation

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Hauptverfasser: Wickremasinghe, Dewmini Hasara, Xu, Yiyang, Puyol-Antón, Esther, Aljabar, Paul, Razavi, Reza, King, Andrew P.
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author Wickremasinghe, Dewmini Hasara
Xu, Yiyang
Puyol-Antón, Esther
Aljabar, Paul
Razavi, Reza
King, Andrew P.
author_facet Wickremasinghe, Dewmini Hasara
Xu, Yiyang
Puyol-Antón, Esther
Aljabar, Paul
Razavi, Reza
King, Andrew P.
contents Quantification of cardiac biomarkers from cine cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) data using deep learning (DL) methods offers many advantages, such as increased accuracy and faster analysis. However, only a few studies have focused on the scan-rescan precision of the biomarker estimates, which is important for reproducibility and longitudinal analysis. Here, we propose a cardiac biomarker estimation pipeline that not only focuses on achieving high segmentation accuracy but also on improving the scan-rescan precision of the computed biomarkers, namely left and right ventricular ejection fraction, and left ventricular myocardial mass. We evaluate two approaches to improve the apical-basal resolution of the segmentations used for estimating the biomarkers: one based on image interpolation and one based on segmentation interpolation. Using a database comprising scan-rescan cine CMR data acquired from 92 subjects, we compare the performance of these two methods against ground truth (GT) segmentations and DL segmentations obtained before interpolation (baseline). The results demonstrate that both the image-based and segmentation-based interpolation methods were able to narrow Bland-Altman scan-rescan confidence intervals for all biomarkers compared to the GT and baseline performances. Our findings highlight the importance of focusing not only on segmentation accuracy but also on the consistency of biomarkers across repeated scans, which is crucial for longitudinal analysis of cardiac function.
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spellingShingle Improving the Scan-rescan Precision of AI-based CMR Biomarker Estimation
Wickremasinghe, Dewmini Hasara
Xu, Yiyang
Puyol-Antón, Esther
Aljabar, Paul
Razavi, Reza
King, Andrew P.
Quantitative Methods
Artificial Intelligence
Image and Video Processing
Quantification of cardiac biomarkers from cine cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) data using deep learning (DL) methods offers many advantages, such as increased accuracy and faster analysis. However, only a few studies have focused on the scan-rescan precision of the biomarker estimates, which is important for reproducibility and longitudinal analysis. Here, we propose a cardiac biomarker estimation pipeline that not only focuses on achieving high segmentation accuracy but also on improving the scan-rescan precision of the computed biomarkers, namely left and right ventricular ejection fraction, and left ventricular myocardial mass. We evaluate two approaches to improve the apical-basal resolution of the segmentations used for estimating the biomarkers: one based on image interpolation and one based on segmentation interpolation. Using a database comprising scan-rescan cine CMR data acquired from 92 subjects, we compare the performance of these two methods against ground truth (GT) segmentations and DL segmentations obtained before interpolation (baseline). The results demonstrate that both the image-based and segmentation-based interpolation methods were able to narrow Bland-Altman scan-rescan confidence intervals for all biomarkers compared to the GT and baseline performances. Our findings highlight the importance of focusing not only on segmentation accuracy but also on the consistency of biomarkers across repeated scans, which is crucial for longitudinal analysis of cardiac function.
title Improving the Scan-rescan Precision of AI-based CMR Biomarker Estimation
topic Quantitative Methods
Artificial Intelligence
Image and Video Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.11754