Paper Info
Title
Differentiation of pre-ablation and post-ablation late gadolinium-enhanced cardiac MRI scans of longstanding persistent atrial fibrillation patients.
Abstract
Late Gadolinium-Enhanced Cardiac MRI (LGE CMRI) is an emerging non-invasive technique to image and quantify preablation native and post-ablation atrial scarring. Previous studies have reported that enhanced image intensities of the atrial scarring in the LGE CMRI inversely correlate with the left atrial endocardial voltage invasively obtained by electro-anatomical mapping. However, the reported reproducibility of using LGE CMRI to identify and quantify atrial scarring is variable. This may be due to two reasons: first, delineation of the left atrium (LA) and pulmonary veins (PVs) anatomy generally relies on manual operation that is highly subjective, and this could substantially affect the subsequent atrial scarring segmentation; second, simple intensity based image features may not be good enough to detect subtle changes in atrial scarring. In this study, we hypothesized that texture analysis can provide reliable image features for the LGE CMRI images subject to accurate and objective delineation of the heart anatomy based on a fully-automated whole heart segmentation (WHS) method. We tested the extracted texture features to differentiate between pre-ablation and post-ablation LGE CMRI studies in longstanding persistent atrial fibrillation patients. These patients often have extensive native scarring and differentiation from post-ablation scarring can be difficult. Quantification results showed that our method is capable of solving this classification task, and we can envisage further deployment of this texture analysis based method for other clinical problems using LGE CMRI.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1117/12.2250910
Proceedings of SPIE
Keywords
Field
DocType
Atlas Propagation,Multi-Scale Patch,Local Atlas Ranking,Whole Heart Segmentation,Texture Analysis,Cardiac MRI,Classification,Machine Learning,Computer-Aided Diagnosis,Medical Imaging Analysis,Image Processing
Computer-aided diagnosis,Image segmentation,Artificial intelligence,Longstanding persistent atrial fibrillation,Atrial fibrillation,Computer vision,Feature (computer vision),Left atrial,Internal medicine,Cardiology,Ablation,Left atrium,Physics
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
10134
0277-786X
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
5
12
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Guang Yang1518.05
Xiahai Zhuang241138.76
Habib Khan3101.42
Shouvik Haldar4112.43
Eva Nyktari5152.17
Lei Li601.01
Xujiong Ye729922.78
Gregory G. Slabaugh887071.13
Tom Wong9304.86
Raad Mohiaddin1020.75
J. Keegan1110011.94
David N. Firmin12498.71