Artificial Intelligence in Cardiac Imaging With Statistical Atlases of Cardiac Anatomy

Kathleen Gilbert, Charlène Mauger, Alistair A. Young*, Avan Suinesiaputra

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Abstract

In many cardiovascular pathologies, the shape and motion of the heart provide important clues to understanding the mechanisms of the disease and how it progresses over time. With the advent of large-scale cardiac data, statistical modeling of cardiac anatomy has become a powerful tool to provide automated, precise quantification of the status of patient-specific heart geometry with respect to reference populations. Powered by supervised or unsupervised machine learning algorithms, statistical cardiac shape analysis can be used to automatically identify and quantify the severity of heart diseases, to provide morphometric indices that are optimally associated with clinical factors, and to evaluate the likelihood of adverse outcomes. Recently, statistical cardiac atlases have been integrated with deep neural networks to enable anatomical consistency of cardiac segmentation, registration, and automated quality control. These combinations have already shown significant improvements in performance and avoid gross anatomical errors that could make the results unusable. This current trend is expected to grow in the near future. Here, we aim to provide a mini review highlighting recent advances in statistical atlasing of cardiac function in the context of artificial intelligence in cardiac imaging.

Original languageEnglish
Article number102
JournalFrontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine
Volume7
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 30 Jun 2020

Keywords

  • cardiac anatomy
  • left ventricle
  • machine learning
  • MRI
  • statistical shape

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