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Artificial Intelligence to Assist in Exclusion of Coronary Atherosclerosis During CCTA Evaluation of Chest Pain in the Emergency Department: Preparing an Application for Real-world Use

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JOURNAL OF DIGITAL IMAGING
Volume 34, Issue 3, Pages 554-571

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SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10278-021-00441-6

Keywords

Artificial intelligence; Chest pain; Coronary atherosclerosis; Coronary computed tomography angiography

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The study developed an artificial intelligence algorithm to assist qualified interpreting physicians in CCTA screening for total absence of coronary atherosclerosis. The algorithm demonstrated strong performance and high negative predictive values. The completion rate of the algorithm workflow process was 96% in phase 2, depending on image quality.
Coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA) evaluation of chest pain patients in an emergency department (ED) is considered appropriate. While a negative CCTA interpretation supports direct patient discharge from an ED, labor-intensive analyses are required, with accuracy in jeopardy from distractions. We describe the development of an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm and workflow for assisting qualified interpreting physicians in CCTA screening for total absence of coronary atherosclerosis. The two-phase approach consisted of (1) phase 1-development and preliminary testing of an algorithm for vessel-centerline extraction classification in a balanced study population (n = 500 with 50% disease prevalence) derived by retrospective random case selection, and (2) phase 2-simulated clinical Trialing of developed algorithm on a per-case (entire coronary artery tree) basis in a more real-world study population (n = 100 with 28% disease prevalence) from an ED chest pain series. This allowed pre-deployment evaluation of the AI-based CCTA screening application which provides vessel-by-vessel graphic display of algorithm inference results integrated into a clinically capable viewer. Algorithm performance evaluation used area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC-ROC); confusion matrices reflected ground truth vs AI determinations. The vessel-based algorithm demonstrated strong performance with AUC-ROC = 0.96. In both phase 1 and phase 2, independent of disease prevalence differences, negative predictive values at the case level were very high at 95%. The rate of completion of the algorithm workflow process (96% with inference results in 55-80 s) in phase 2 depended on adequate image quality. There is potential for this AI application to assist in CCTA interpretation to help extricate atherosclerosis from chest pain presentations.

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