Why the study?
Accurate diagnosis of left ventricular noncompaction cardiomyopathy is critical for proper patient treatment, but automatic left ventricle segmentation on cardiac MR remains challenging.
Do advanced deep learning techniques (U-Net++) improve the accuracy of LVNC diagnosis on cardiac MR images compared to baseline U-Net?
Do advanced deep learning techniques (U-Net++) improve the accuracy of LVNC diagnosis on cardiac MR images compared to baseline U-Net?
Advanced deep learning architectures like U-Net++ combined with higher resolution images and clustering algorithms can improve the automated diagnosis of LVNC from cardiac MRI.
Accurate diagnosis of Left Ventricular Noncompaction Cardiomyopathy (LVNC) is critical for proper patient treatment but remains challenging. This work improves LVNC detection by improving left ventricle segmentation in cardiac MR images. Trabeculated left ventricle indicates LVNC, but automatic segmentation is difficult. We present techniques to improve segmentation and evaluate their impact on LVNC diagnosis. Three main methods are introduced: (1) using full 800 × 800 MR images rather than 512 × 512; (2) a clustering algorithm to eliminate neural network hallucinations; (3) advanced network architectures including Attention U-Net, MSA-UNet, and U-Net++.Experiments utilize cardiac MR datasets from three different hospitals. U-Net++ achieves the best segmentation performance using 800 × 800 images, and it improves the mean segmentation Dice score by 0.02 over the baseline U-Net, the clustering algorithm improves the mean Dice score by 0.06 on the images it affected, and the U-Net++ provides an additional 0.02 mean Dice score over the baseline U-Net. For LVNC diagnosis, U-Net++ achieves 0.896 accuracy, 0.907 precision, and 0.912 F1-score outperforming the baseline U-Net. Proposed techniques enhance LVNC detection, but differences between hospitals reveal problems in improving generalization. This work provides validated methods for precise LVNC diagnosis.
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Barón et al. (2023) studied Left Ventricular Noncompaction Cardiomyopathy (LVNC). U-Net++ architecture with 800x800 MR images and clustering algorithm vs. Baseline U-Net was evaluated on LVNC diagnosis accuracy.
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