SwinUNet: a multiscale feature learning approach to cardiovascular magnetic resonance parametric mapping for myocardial tissue characterization
This study aims to accelerate CMR parametric mapping with deep learning. Approach. A deep-learning model, SwinUNet, was developed to accelerate T1/T2 mapping. SwinUNet used a convolutional UNet and a Swin transformer to form a hierarchical 3D computation structure, allowing for analyzing CMR images spatially and temporally with multiscale feature learning. A comparative study was conducted between SwinUNet and an existing deep-learning model, MyoMapNet, which only used temporal analysis for parametric mapping. The T1/T2 mapping performance was evaluated globally using mean absolute error (MAE) and structural similarity index measure (SSIM). The clinical T1/T2 indices for characterizing the left-ventricle myocardial walls were also calculated and evaluated using correlation and Bland –Altman analysis. Main results. We performed accelerated T1 mapping with ≤4 heartbeats and T2 mapping with 2 heartbeats in reference to the clinical standard, which required 11 heartbeats for T1 mapping and 3 heartbeats for T2 mapping. SwinUNet performed well in all the experiments (MAE 0.8, correlation> 0.75, and Bland –Altman agreement limits 0.95, and Bland –Altman agreement limits
Source: Physiological Measurement - Category: Physiology Authors: Yifan Qi, Fusheng Wang, Jun Kong, J Jane Cao and Yu Y Li Source Type: research
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