AI-Enabled Assessment of Cardiac Systolic and Diastolic Function from Echocardiography

Esther Puyol-Antón*, Bram Ruijsink, Baldeep S. Sidhu, Justin Gould, Bradley Porter, Mark K. Elliott, Vishal Mehta, Haotian Gu, Christopher A. Rinaldi, Martin cowie, Phil Chowienczyk, Reza Razavi, Andrew P. King

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Abstract

Left ventricular (LV) function is an important factor in terms of patient management, outcome, and long-term survival of patients with heart disease. The most recently published clinical guidelines for heart failure recognise that over reliance on only one measure of cardiac function (LV ejection fraction) as a diagnostic and treatment stratification biomarker is suboptimal. Recent advances in AI-based echocardiography analysis have shown excellent results on automated estimation of LV volumes and LV ejection fraction. However, from time-varying 2-D echocardiography acquisition, a richer description of cardiac function can be obtained by estimating functional biomarkers from the complete cardiac cycle. In this work we propose for the first time an AI approach for deriving advanced biomarkers of systolic and diastolic LV function from 2-D echocardiography based on segmentations of the full cardiac cycle. These biomarkers will allow clinicians to obtain a much richer picture of the heart in health and disease. The AI model is based on the ’nn-Unet’ framework and was trained and tested using four different databases. Results show excellent agreement between manual and automated analysis and showcase the potential of the advanced systolic and diastolic biomarkers for patient stratification. Finally, for a subset of 50 cases, we perform a correlation analysis between clinical biomarkers derived from echocardiography and cardiac magnetic resonance and we show a very strong relationship between the two modalities.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSimplifying Medical Ultrasound - 3rd International Workshop, ASMUS 2022, held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2022, Proceedings
EditorsStephen Aylward, J. Alison Noble, Yipeng Hu, Su-Lin Lee, Zachary Baum, Zhe Min
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages75-85
Number of pages11
ISBN (Print)9783031169014
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 15 Sept 2022
Event3rd International Workshop of Advances in Simplifying Medical Ultrasound, ASMUS 2022, held in Conjunction with 25th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2022 - Singapore, Singapore
Duration: 18 Sept 202218 Sept 2022

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume13565 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference3rd International Workshop of Advances in Simplifying Medical Ultrasound, ASMUS 2022, held in Conjunction with 25th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2022
Country/TerritorySingapore
CitySingapore
Period18/09/202218/09/2022

Keywords

  • Cardiac function
  • Deep learning
  • Echocardiography
  • Image segmentation

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