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IEEE JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL AND HEALTH INFORMATICS
卷 25, 期 8, 页码 2967-2977出版社
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/JBHI.2021.3060163
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Terms-Carotid atherosclerosis; carotid ultrasound; deep learning; segmentation; total plaque area
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资金
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)
- National Nature Science Foundation of China [81571754]
The article introduces a UNet++ ensemble algorithm for automatic segmentation of plaques from 2D carotid ultrasound images, trained on small datasets and tested on new datasets, achieving accuracy and precision that may be useful clinically and for research.
Measurement of total-plaque-area (TPA) is important for determining long term risk for stroke and monitoring carotid plaque progression. Since delineation of carotid plaques is required, a deep learning method can provide automatic plaque segmentations and TPA measurements; however, it requires large datasets and manual annotations for training with unknown performance on new datasets. A UNet++ ensemble algorithm was proposed to segment plaques from 2D carotid ultrasound images, trained on three small datasets (n = 33, 33, 34 subjects) and tested on 44 subjects from the SPARC dataset (n = 144, London, Canada). The ensemble was also trained on the entire SPARC dataset and tested with a different dataset (n = 497, Zhongnan Hospital, China). Algorithm and manual segmentations were compared using Dicesimilarity-coefficient (DSC), and TPAs were compared using the difference (Delta TPA), Pearson correlation coefficient (r) and Bland-Altman analyses. Segmentation variability was determined using the intra-class correlation coefficient (ICC) and coefficient-of-variation (CoV). For 44 SPARC subjects, algorithm DSC was 83.3-85.7%, and algorithm TPAs were strongly correlated (r = 0.985-0.988; p < 0.001) with manual results with marginal biases (0.73-6.75) mm(2) using the three training datasets. Algorithm ICC for TPAs (ICC = 0.996) was similar to intra- and inter-observer manual results (ICC = 0.977, 0.995). Algorithm CoV = 6.98% for plaque areas was smaller than the inter-observer manual CoV (7.54%). For the Zhongnan dataset, DSC was 88.6% algorithm and manual TPAs were strongly correlated (r = 0.972, p < 0.001) with.TPA = -0.44 +/- 4.05 mm(2) and ICC = 0.985. The proposed algorithm trained on small datasets and segmented a different dataset without retraining with accuracy and precision that may be useful clinically and for research.
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