Automatic coronary lumen segmentation with partial volume modeling improves lesions' hemodynamic significance assessment

M. Freiman; Y. Lamash; G. Gilboa; H. Nickisch; S. Prevrhal; H. Schmitt; M. Vembar; L. Goshen

doi:10.1117/12.2209476

21 March 2016 Automatic coronary lumen segmentation with partial volume modeling improves lesions' hemodynamic significance assessment

M. Freiman, Y. Lamash, G. Gilboa, H. Nickisch, S. Prevrhal, H. Schmitt, M. Vembar, L. Goshen

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Proceedings Volume 9784, Medical Imaging 2016: Image Processing; 978403 (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2209476
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2016, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

The determination of hemodynamic significance of coronary artery lesions from cardiac computed tomography angiography (CCTA) based on blood flow simulations has the potential to improve CCTA’s specificity, thus resulting in improved clinical decision making. Accurate coronary lumen segmentation required for flow simulation is challenging due to several factors. Specifically, the partial-volume effect (PVE) in small-diameter lumina may result in overestimation of the lumen diameter that can lead to an erroneous hemodynamic significance assessment. In this work, we present a coronary artery segmentation algorithm tailored specifically for flow simulations by accounting for the PVE. Our algorithm detects lumen regions that may be subject to the PVE by analyzing the intensity values along the coronary centerline and integrates this information into a machine-learning based graph min-cut segmentation framework to obtain accurate coronary lumen segmentations. We demonstrate the improvement in hemodynamic significance assessment achieved by accounting for the PVE in the automatic segmentation of 91 coronary artery lesions from 85 patients. We compare hemodynamic significance assessments by means of fractional flow reserve (FFR) resulting from simulations on 3D models generated by our segmentation algorithm with and without accounting for the PVE. By accounting for the PVE we improved the area under the ROC curve for detecting hemodynamically significant CAD by 29% (N=91, 0.85 vs. 0.66, p<0.05, Delong’s test) with invasive FFR threshold of 0.8 as the reference standard. Our algorithm has the potential to facilitate non-invasive hemodynamic significance assessment of coronary lesions.

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M. Freiman, Y. Lamash, G. Gilboa, H. Nickisch, S. Prevrhal, H. Schmitt, M. Vembar, and L. Goshen "Automatic coronary lumen segmentation with partial volume modeling improves lesions' hemodynamic significance assessment", Proc. SPIE 9784, Medical Imaging 2016: Image Processing, 978403 (21 March 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2209476

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