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Automated identification of myocardial perfusion defects in dynamic cardiac computed tomography using deep learning

  • Yoon-Chul Kim
    Affiliations
    Division of Digital Healthcare, College of Software and Digital Healthcare Convergence, Yonsei University, Wonju, South Korea
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    1 ORCID: 0000-0002-9983-048X.
    Yeon Hyeon Choe
    Correspondence
    Corresponding author at: Department of Radiology, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, 81 Irwon-ro, Gangnam-gu, Seoul 06351, South Korea.
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    1 ORCID: 0000-0002-9983-048X.
    Affiliations
    Department of Radiology, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
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    1 ORCID: 0000-0002-9983-048X.
Published:March 04, 2023DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejmp.2023.102555

      Highlights

      • A method for detection of perfusion defect in dynamic CT is presented.
      • Deep learning automates generation of myocardial blood flow maps.
      • Color-coded maps are used as input to model training and validation.
      • Cross-validation demonstrates high AUCs in identifying lesion location.

      Abstract

      Purpose

      The purpose of this study was to develop and evaluate deep convolutional neural network (CNN) models for quantifying myocardial blood flow (MBF) as well as for identifying myocardial perfusion defects in dynamic cardiac computed tomography (CT) images.

      Methods

      Adenosine stress cardiac CT perfusion data acquired from 156 patients having or being suspected with coronary artery disease were considered for model development and validation. U-net-based deep CNN models were developed to segment the aorta and myocardium and to localize anatomical landmarks. Color-coded MBF maps were obtained in short-axis slices from the apex to the base level and were used to train a deep CNN classifier. Three binary classification models were built for the detection of perfusion defect in the left anterior descending artery (LAD), the right coronary artery (RCA), and the left circumflex artery (LCX) territories.

      Results

      Mean Dice scores were 0.94 (±0.07) and 0.86 (±0.06) for the aorta and myocardial deep learning-based segmentations, respectively. With the localization U-net, mean distance errors were 3.5 (±3.5) mm and 3.8 (±2.4) mm for the basal and apical center points, respectively. The classification models identified perfusion defects with the accuracy of mean area under the receiver operating curve (AUROC) values of 0.959 (±0.023) for LAD, 0.949 (±0.016) for RCA, and 0.957 (±0.021) for LCX.

      Conclusion

      The presented method has the potential to fully automate the quantification of MBF and subsequently identify the main coronary artery territories with myocardial perfusion defects in dynamic cardiac CT perfusion.

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