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Automated Segmentation of Microvessels in Intravascular OCT Images Using Deep Learning
Microvessels in vascular plaque are associated with plaque progression and are found in plaque rupture and intra-plaque hemorrhage. To analyze this characteristic of vulnerability, we developed an automated deep learning method for detecting microvessels in intravascular optical coherence tomography...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9687448/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36354559 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bioengineering9110648 |
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author | Lee, Juhwan Kim, Justin N. Gomez-Perez, Lia Gharaibeh, Yazan Motairek, Issam Pereira, Gabriel T. R. Zimin, Vladislav N. Dallan, Luis A. P. Hoori, Ammar Al-Kindi, Sadeer Guagliumi, Giulio Bezerra, Hiram G. Wilson, David L. |
author_facet | Lee, Juhwan Kim, Justin N. Gomez-Perez, Lia Gharaibeh, Yazan Motairek, Issam Pereira, Gabriel T. R. Zimin, Vladislav N. Dallan, Luis A. P. Hoori, Ammar Al-Kindi, Sadeer Guagliumi, Giulio Bezerra, Hiram G. Wilson, David L. |
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description | Microvessels in vascular plaque are associated with plaque progression and are found in plaque rupture and intra-plaque hemorrhage. To analyze this characteristic of vulnerability, we developed an automated deep learning method for detecting microvessels in intravascular optical coherence tomography (IVOCT) images. A total of 8403 IVOCT image frames from 85 lesions and 37 normal segments were analyzed. Manual annotation was performed using a dedicated software (OCTOPUS) previously developed by our group. Data augmentation in the polar (r,θ) domain was applied to raw IVOCT images to ensure that microvessels appear at all possible angles. Pre-processing methods included guidewire/shadow detection, lumen segmentation, pixel shifting, and noise reduction. DeepLab v3+ was used to segment microvessel candidates. A bounding box on each candidate was classified as either microvessel or non-microvessel using a shallow convolutional neural network. For better classification, we used data augmentation (i.e., angle rotation) on bounding boxes with a microvessel during network training. Data augmentation and pre-processing steps improved microvessel segmentation performance significantly, yielding a method with Dice of 0.71 ± 0.10 and pixel-wise sensitivity/specificity of 87.7 ± 6.6%/99.8 ± 0.1%. The network for classifying microvessels from candidates performed exceptionally well, with sensitivity of 99.5 ± 0.3%, specificity of 98.8 ± 1.0%, and accuracy of 99.1 ± 0.5%. The classification step eliminated the majority of residual false positives and the Dice coefficient increased from 0.71 to 0.73. In addition, our method produced 698 image frames with microvessels present, compared with 730 from manual analysis, representing a 4.4% difference. When compared with the manual method, the automated method improved microvessel continuity, implying improved segmentation performance. The method will be useful for research purposes as well as potential future treatment planning. |
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spelling | pubmed-96874482022-11-25 Automated Segmentation of Microvessels in Intravascular OCT Images Using Deep Learning Lee, Juhwan Kim, Justin N. Gomez-Perez, Lia Gharaibeh, Yazan Motairek, Issam Pereira, Gabriel T. R. Zimin, Vladislav N. Dallan, Luis A. P. Hoori, Ammar Al-Kindi, Sadeer Guagliumi, Giulio Bezerra, Hiram G. Wilson, David L. Bioengineering (Basel) Article Microvessels in vascular plaque are associated with plaque progression and are found in plaque rupture and intra-plaque hemorrhage. To analyze this characteristic of vulnerability, we developed an automated deep learning method for detecting microvessels in intravascular optical coherence tomography (IVOCT) images. A total of 8403 IVOCT image frames from 85 lesions and 37 normal segments were analyzed. Manual annotation was performed using a dedicated software (OCTOPUS) previously developed by our group. Data augmentation in the polar (r,θ) domain was applied to raw IVOCT images to ensure that microvessels appear at all possible angles. Pre-processing methods included guidewire/shadow detection, lumen segmentation, pixel shifting, and noise reduction. DeepLab v3+ was used to segment microvessel candidates. A bounding box on each candidate was classified as either microvessel or non-microvessel using a shallow convolutional neural network. For better classification, we used data augmentation (i.e., angle rotation) on bounding boxes with a microvessel during network training. Data augmentation and pre-processing steps improved microvessel segmentation performance significantly, yielding a method with Dice of 0.71 ± 0.10 and pixel-wise sensitivity/specificity of 87.7 ± 6.6%/99.8 ± 0.1%. The network for classifying microvessels from candidates performed exceptionally well, with sensitivity of 99.5 ± 0.3%, specificity of 98.8 ± 1.0%, and accuracy of 99.1 ± 0.5%. The classification step eliminated the majority of residual false positives and the Dice coefficient increased from 0.71 to 0.73. In addition, our method produced 698 image frames with microvessels present, compared with 730 from manual analysis, representing a 4.4% difference. When compared with the manual method, the automated method improved microvessel continuity, implying improved segmentation performance. The method will be useful for research purposes as well as potential future treatment planning. MDPI 2022-11-03 /pmc/articles/PMC9687448/ /pubmed/36354559 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bioengineering9110648 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Lee, Juhwan Kim, Justin N. Gomez-Perez, Lia Gharaibeh, Yazan Motairek, Issam Pereira, Gabriel T. R. Zimin, Vladislav N. Dallan, Luis A. P. Hoori, Ammar Al-Kindi, Sadeer Guagliumi, Giulio Bezerra, Hiram G. Wilson, David L. Automated Segmentation of Microvessels in Intravascular OCT Images Using Deep Learning |
title | Automated Segmentation of Microvessels in Intravascular OCT Images Using Deep Learning |
title_full | Automated Segmentation of Microvessels in Intravascular OCT Images Using Deep Learning |
title_fullStr | Automated Segmentation of Microvessels in Intravascular OCT Images Using Deep Learning |
title_full_unstemmed | Automated Segmentation of Microvessels in Intravascular OCT Images Using Deep Learning |
title_short | Automated Segmentation of Microvessels in Intravascular OCT Images Using Deep Learning |
title_sort | automated segmentation of microvessels in intravascular oct images using deep learning |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9687448/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36354559 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bioengineering9110648 |
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