Multi-View Transformers for Airway-To-Lung Ratio Inference on Cardiac CT Scans: The C4R Study

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Auteurs principaux: Naik, Sneha N., Angelini, Elsa D., Hoffman, Eric A., Oelsner, Elizabeth C., Barr, R. Graham, Smith, Benjamin M., Laine, Andrew F.
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author Naik, Sneha N.
Angelini, Elsa D.
Hoffman, Eric A.
Oelsner, Elizabeth C.
Barr, R. Graham
Smith, Benjamin M.
Laine, Andrew F.
author_facet Naik, Sneha N.
Angelini, Elsa D.
Hoffman, Eric A.
Oelsner, Elizabeth C.
Barr, R. Graham
Smith, Benjamin M.
Laine, Andrew F.
contents The ratio of airway tree lumen to lung size (ALR), assessed at full inspiration on high resolution full-lung computed tomography (CT), is a major risk factor for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). There is growing interest to infer ALR from cardiac CT images, which are widely available in epidemiological cohorts, to investigate the relationship of ALR to severe COVID-19 and post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection (PASC). Previously, cardiac scans included approximately 2/3 of the total lung volume with 5-6x greater slice thickness than high-resolution (HR) full-lung (FL) CT. In this study, we present a novel attention-based Multi-view Swin Transformer to infer FL ALR values from segmented cardiac CT scans. For the supervised training we exploit paired full-lung and cardiac CTs acquired in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA). Our network significantly outperforms a proxy direct ALR inference on segmented cardiac CT scans and achieves accuracy and reproducibility comparable with a scan-rescan reproducibility of the FL ALR ground-truth.
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spellingShingle Multi-View Transformers for Airway-To-Lung Ratio Inference on Cardiac CT Scans: The C4R Study
Naik, Sneha N.
Angelini, Elsa D.
Hoffman, Eric A.
Oelsner, Elizabeth C.
Barr, R. Graham
Smith, Benjamin M.
Laine, Andrew F.
Image and Video Processing
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
The ratio of airway tree lumen to lung size (ALR), assessed at full inspiration on high resolution full-lung computed tomography (CT), is a major risk factor for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). There is growing interest to infer ALR from cardiac CT images, which are widely available in epidemiological cohorts, to investigate the relationship of ALR to severe COVID-19 and post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection (PASC). Previously, cardiac scans included approximately 2/3 of the total lung volume with 5-6x greater slice thickness than high-resolution (HR) full-lung (FL) CT. In this study, we present a novel attention-based Multi-view Swin Transformer to infer FL ALR values from segmented cardiac CT scans. For the supervised training we exploit paired full-lung and cardiac CTs acquired in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA). Our network significantly outperforms a proxy direct ALR inference on segmented cardiac CT scans and achieves accuracy and reproducibility comparable with a scan-rescan reproducibility of the FL ALR ground-truth.
title Multi-View Transformers for Airway-To-Lung Ratio Inference on Cardiac CT Scans: The C4R Study
topic Image and Video Processing
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.08902