期刊
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ULTRASONICS FERROELECTRICS AND FREQUENCY CONTROL
卷 66, 期 5, 页码 922-929出版社
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2019.2903886
关键词
3-D image segmentation; 3-D transesophageal echocardiography; iterative closest point; left atrial appendage (LAA) occlusion; semiautomatic occluding device sizing
资金
- Northern Portugal Regional Operational Programme (Norte2020) funded through the European Regional Development Fund (FEDER) under the Portugal 2020 Partnership Agreement [NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000013, NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000022, NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-024300]
- FEDER through the Competitiveness Factors Operational Programme (COMPETE)
- National Funds through the FCT-Fundacao para a Ciencia e Tecnologia [POCI-01-0145-FEDER-007038]
- FCT
- European Social Found [SFRH/BD/95438/2013, SFRH/BD/93443/2013]
Left atrial appendage (LAA) occlusion is used to reduce the risk of thromboembolism in patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation by obstructing the LAA through a percutaneously delivered device. Nonetheless, correct device sizing is complex, requiring the manual estimation of different measurements in preprocedural/periprocedural images, which is tedious and time-consuming and with high interobserver and intraobserver variability. In this paper, a semiautomatic solution to estimate the required relevant clinical measurements is described. This solution starts with the 3-D segmentation of the LAA in 3-D transesophageal echocardiographic images, using a constant blind-ended model initialized through a manually defined spline. Then, the segmented LAA surface is aligned with a set of templates, i.e., 3-D surfaces plus relevant measurement planes (manually defined by one observer), transferring the latter to the unknown situation. Specifically, the alignment is performed in three consecutive steps, namely: 1) rigid alignment using the LAA clipping plane position; 2) orientation compensation using the circumflex artery location; and 3) anatomical refinement through a weighted iterative closest point algorithm. The novel solution was evaluated in a clinical database with 20 volumetric TEE images. Two experiments were set up to assess: 1) the sensitivity of the model's parameters and 2) the accuracy of the proposed solution for the estimation of the clinical measurements. Measurement levels manually identified by two observers were used as ground truth. The proposed solution obtained results comparable to the interobserver variability, presenting narrower limits of agreement for all measurements. Moreover, this solution proved to be fast, taking nearly 40 s (manual analysis took 3 min) to estimate the relevant measurements while being robust to the variation of the model's parameters. Overall, the proposed solution showed its potential for fast and robust estimation of the clinical measurements for occluding device selection, proving its added value for clinical practice.
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