ScarNet: A Novel Foundation Model for Automated Myocardial Scar Quantification from LGE in Cardiac MRI
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| author | Tavakoli, Neda Rahsepar, Amir Ali Benefield, Brandon C. Shen, Daming López-Tapia, Santiago Schiffers, Florian Goldberger, Jeffrey J. Albert, Christine M. Wu, Edwin Katsaggelos, Aggelos K. Lee, Daniel C. Kim, Daniel |
| author_facet | Tavakoli, Neda Rahsepar, Amir Ali Benefield, Brandon C. Shen, Daming López-Tapia, Santiago Schiffers, Florian Goldberger, Jeffrey J. Albert, Christine M. Wu, Edwin Katsaggelos, Aggelos K. Lee, Daniel C. Kim, Daniel |
| contents | Background: Late Gadolinium Enhancement (LGE) imaging is the gold standard for assessing myocardial fibrosis and scarring, with left ventricular (LV) LGE extent predicting major adverse cardiac events (MACE). Despite its importance, routine LGE-based LV scar quantification is hindered by labor-intensive manual segmentation and inter-observer variability. Methods: We propose ScarNet, a hybrid model combining a transformer-based encoder from the Medical Segment Anything Model (MedSAM) with a convolution-based U-Net decoder, enhanced by tailored attention blocks. ScarNet was trained on 552 ischemic cardiomyopathy patients with expert segmentations of myocardial and scar boundaries and tested on 184 separate patients. Results: ScarNet achieved robust scar segmentation in 184 test patients, yielding a median Dice score of 0.912 (IQR: 0.863--0.944), significantly outperforming MedSAM (median Dice = 0.046, IQR: 0.043--0.047) and nnU-Net (median Dice = 0.638, IQR: 0.604--0.661). ScarNet demonstrated lower bias (-0.63%) and coefficient of variation (4.3%) compared to MedSAM (bias: -13.31%, CoV: 130.3%) and nnU-Net (bias: -2.46%, CoV: 20.3%). In Monte Carlo simulations with noise perturbations, ScarNet achieved significantly higher scar Dice (0.892 \pm 0.053, CoV = 5.9%) than MedSAM (0.048 \pm 0.112, CoV = 233.3%) and nnU-Net (0.615 \pm 0.537, CoV = 28.7%). Conclusion: ScarNet outperformed MedSAM and nnU-Net in accurately segmenting myocardial and scar boundaries in LGE images. The model exhibited robust performance across diverse image qualities and scar patterns. |
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| spellingShingle | ScarNet: A Novel Foundation Model for Automated Myocardial Scar Quantification from LGE in Cardiac MRI Tavakoli, Neda Rahsepar, Amir Ali Benefield, Brandon C. Shen, Daming López-Tapia, Santiago Schiffers, Florian Goldberger, Jeffrey J. Albert, Christine M. Wu, Edwin Katsaggelos, Aggelos K. Lee, Daniel C. Kim, Daniel Image and Video Processing Artificial Intelligence Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Background: Late Gadolinium Enhancement (LGE) imaging is the gold standard for assessing myocardial fibrosis and scarring, with left ventricular (LV) LGE extent predicting major adverse cardiac events (MACE). Despite its importance, routine LGE-based LV scar quantification is hindered by labor-intensive manual segmentation and inter-observer variability. Methods: We propose ScarNet, a hybrid model combining a transformer-based encoder from the Medical Segment Anything Model (MedSAM) with a convolution-based U-Net decoder, enhanced by tailored attention blocks. ScarNet was trained on 552 ischemic cardiomyopathy patients with expert segmentations of myocardial and scar boundaries and tested on 184 separate patients. Results: ScarNet achieved robust scar segmentation in 184 test patients, yielding a median Dice score of 0.912 (IQR: 0.863--0.944), significantly outperforming MedSAM (median Dice = 0.046, IQR: 0.043--0.047) and nnU-Net (median Dice = 0.638, IQR: 0.604--0.661). ScarNet demonstrated lower bias (-0.63%) and coefficient of variation (4.3%) compared to MedSAM (bias: -13.31%, CoV: 130.3%) and nnU-Net (bias: -2.46%, CoV: 20.3%). In Monte Carlo simulations with noise perturbations, ScarNet achieved significantly higher scar Dice (0.892 \pm 0.053, CoV = 5.9%) than MedSAM (0.048 \pm 0.112, CoV = 233.3%) and nnU-Net (0.615 \pm 0.537, CoV = 28.7%). Conclusion: ScarNet outperformed MedSAM and nnU-Net in accurately segmenting myocardial and scar boundaries in LGE images. The model exhibited robust performance across diverse image qualities and scar patterns. |
| title | ScarNet: A Novel Foundation Model for Automated Myocardial Scar Quantification from LGE in Cardiac MRI |
| topic | Image and Video Processing Artificial Intelligence Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.01372 |