Detection of hypoplastic left heart syndrome anatomy from cardiovascular magnetic resonance images using machine learning

This study presents a tailor-made neural network architecture for detection of 7 distinctive anatomic landmarks in CMR images of patients with hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS) in Fontan circulation or healthy controls and demonstrates the potential of the spatial arrangement of the landmarks to identify HLHS. The method was applied to the axial SSFP CMR scans of 46 patients with HLHS and 33 healthy controls.RESULTS: The displacement between predicted and annotated landmark had a standard deviation of 8-17 mm and was larger than the interobserver variability by a factor of 1.1-2.0. A high overall classification accuracy of 98.7% was achieved.DISCUSSION: Decoupling the identification of clinically meaningful anatomic landmarks from the actual classification improved transparency of classification results. Information from such automated analysis could be used to quickly jump to anatomic positions and guide the physician more efficiently through the analysis depending on the detected condition, which may ultimately improve work flow and save analysis time.PMID:38214799 | DOI:10.1007/s10334-023-01124-9

Source: Magma - January 12, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Dominik Daniel Gabbert Lennart Petersen Abigail Burleigh Simona Boroni Grazioli Sylvia Krupickova Reinhard Koch Anselm Sebastian Uebing Monty Santarossa Inga Voges Source Type: research