Artificial Intelligence-based quantification of atherosclerotic plaque and stenosis from coronary computed tomography angiography using a novel method

Lin A, Manral N, McElhinney P, Killekar A, Matsumoto H, Kwiecinski J, Pieszko K, Razipour A, Grodecki K, Park C, Doris M, Kwan A, Han D, Kuronama K, Flores Tomasino G, Tzolos E, Shanbhag A, Göller M, Marwan M, Cadet S, Achenbach S, Nicholls S, Wong D, Berman D, Dweck M, Newby D, Williams ME, Slomka P, Dey D (2022)


Publication Type: Conference contribution

Publication year: 2022

Journal

Publisher: SPIE

Book Volume: 12031

Conference Proceedings Title: Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Event location: Virtual, Online

ISBN: 9781510649378

DOI: 10.1117/12.2613244

Abstract

Background: Coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA) allows non-invasive assessment of luminal stenosis and coronary atherosclerotic plaque. We aimed to develop and externally validate an artificial intelligence-based deep learning (DL) network for CCTA-based measures of plaque volume and stenosis severity. Methods: This was an international multicenter study of 1,183 patients undergoing CCTA at 11 sites. A novel DL convolutional neural network was trained to segment coronary plaque in 921 patients (5,045 lesions). The DL architecture consisted of a novel hierarchical convolutional long short-term memory (ConvLSTM) Network. The training set was further split temporally into training (80%) and internal validation (20%) datasets. Each coronary lesion was assessed in a 3D slab about the vessel centrelines. Following training and internal validation, the model was applied to an independent test set of 262 patients (1,469 lesions), which included an external validation cohort of 162 patients Results: In the test set, there was excellent agreement between DL and clinician expert reader measurements of total plaque volume (intraclass correlation coefficient [ICC] 0.964) and percent diameter stenosis (ICC 0.879; both p<0.001, see tables and figure). The average per-patient DL plaque analysis time was 5.7 seconds versus 25-30 minutes taken by experts. There was significantly higher overlap measured by the Dice coefficient (DC) for ConvLSTM compared to UNet (DC for vessel 0.94 vs 0.83, p<0.0001; DC for lumen and plaque 0.90 vs 0.83, p<0.0001) or DeepLabv3 (DC for vessel both 0.94; DC for lumen and plaque 0.89 vs 0.84, p<0.0001). Conclusions: A novel externally validated artificial intelligence-based network provides rapid measurements of plaque volume and stenosis severity from CCTA which agree closely with clinician expert readers.

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APA:

Lin, A., Manral, N., McElhinney, P., Killekar, A., Matsumoto, H., Kwiecinski, J.,... Dey, D. (2022). Artificial Intelligence-based quantification of atherosclerotic plaque and stenosis from coronary computed tomography angiography using a novel method. In Wei Zhao, Lifeng Yu (Eds.), Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE. Virtual, Online: SPIE.

MLA:

Lin, Andrew, et al. "Artificial Intelligence-based quantification of atherosclerotic plaque and stenosis from coronary computed tomography angiography using a novel method." Proceedings of the Medical Imaging 2022: Physics of Medical Imaging, Virtual, Online Ed. Wei Zhao, Lifeng Yu, SPIE, 2022.

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