Journal
EUROPEAN RADIOLOGY
Volume 28, Issue 6, Pages 2655-2664Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-017-5223-z
Keywords
Computed tomography angiography; Atherosclerotic plaque; Coronary stenosis; Machine learning; Ischaemia
Funding
- National Heart Lung Blood Institute (NIH/NHLBI grant) [R01HL133616]
- Bundesministerium fur Bildung und Forschung [01EX1012B]
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We aimed to investigate if lesion-specific ischaemia by invasive fractional flow reserve (FFR) can be predicted by an integrated machine learning (ML) ischaemia risk score from quantitative plaque measures from coronary computed tomography angiography (CTA). In a multicentre trial of 254 patients, CTA and invasive coronary angiography were performed, with FFR in 484 vessels. CTA data sets were analysed by semi-automated software to quantify stenosis and non-calcified (NCP), low-density NCP (LD-NCP, < 30 HU), calcified and total plaque volumes, contrast density difference (CDD, maximum difference in luminal attenuation per unit area) and plaque length. ML integration included automated feature selection and model building from quantitative CTA with a boosted ensemble algorithm, and tenfold stratified cross-validation. Eighty patients had ischaemia by FFR (FFR 0.80) in 100 vessels. Information gain for predicting ischaemia was highest for CDD (0.172), followed by LD-NCP (0.125), NCP (0.097), and total plaque volumes (0.092). ML exhibited higher area-under-the-curve (0.84) than individual CTA measures, including stenosis (0.76), LD-NCP volume (0.77), total plaque volume (0.74) and pre-test likelihood of coronary artery disease (CAD) (0.63); p < 0.006. Integrated ML ischaemia risk score improved the prediction of lesion-specific ischaemia by invasive FFR, over stenosis, plaque measures and pre-test likelihood of CAD. aEuro cent Integrated ischaemia risk score improved prediction of ischaemia over quantitative plaque measures aEuro cent Integrated ischaemia risk score showed higher prediction of ischaemia than standard approach aEuro cent Contrast density difference had the highest information gain to identify lesion-specific ischaemia.
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