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COMPUTERS IN BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE
卷 153, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2022.106484
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Deep learning; Coronary artery disease; Stenosis classification; CAD-RADS; Coronary CT angiography; ConvMixer; Token-Mixer architecture
In this study, an automatic deep learning-based algorithm was proposed to classify coronary artery stenosis lesions according to the CCTA images. The experimental results showed that the algorithm achieved high accuracy and sensitivity in classifying significant coronary artery stenosis and in CAD-RADS classification.
Background and objective: In patients with suspected Coronary Artery Disease (CAD), the severity of stenosis needs to be assessed for precise clinical management. An automatic deep learning-based algorithm to classify coronary stenosis lesions according to the Coronary Artery Disease Reporting and Data System (CAD-RADS) in multiplanar reconstruction images acquired with Coronary Computed Tomography Angiography (CCTA) is proposed.Methods: In this retrospective study, 288 patients with suspected CAD who underwent CCTA scans were included. To model long-range semantic information, which is needed to identify and classify stenosis with challenging appearance, we adopted a token-mixer architecture (ConvMixer), which can learn structural relationship over the whole coronary artery. ConvMixer consists of a patch embedding layer followed by repeated convolutional blocks to enable the algorithm to learn long-range dependences between pixels. To visually assess ConvMixer performance, Gradient-Weighted Class Activation Mapping (Grad-CAM) analysis was used.Results: Experimental results using 5-fold cross-validation showed that our ConvMixer can classify significant coronary artery stenosis (i.e., stenosis with luminal narrowing >50%) with accuracy and sensitivity of 87% and 90%, respectively. For CAD-RADS 0 vs. 1-2 vs. 3-4 vs. 5 classification, ConvMixer achieved accuracy and sensitivity of 72% and 75%, respectively. Additional experiments showed that ConvMixer achieved a better trade-off between performance and complexity compared to pyramid-shaped convolutional neural networks.Conclusions: Our algorithm might provide clinicians with decision support, potentially reducing the interobserver variability for coronary artery stenosis evaluation.
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