4 research outputs found
Early Detection of Myocardial Infarction in Low-Quality Echocardiography
Myocardial infarction (MI), or commonly known as heart attack, is a
life-threatening health problem worldwide from which 32.4 million people suffer
each year. Early diagnosis and treatment of MI are crucial to prevent further
heart tissue damages or death. The earliest and most reliable sign of ischemia
is regional wall motion abnormality (RWMA) of the affected part of the
ventricular muscle. Echocardiography can easily, inexpensively, and
non-invasively exhibit the RWMA. In this article, we introduce a three-phase
approach for early MI detection in low-quality echocardiography: 1)
segmentation of the entire left ventricle (LV) wall using a state-of-the-art
deep learning model, 2) analysis of the segmented LV wall by feature
engineering, and 3) early MI detection. The main contributions of this study
are highly accurate segmentation of the LV wall from low-quality
echocardiography, pseudo labeling approach for ground-truth formation of the
unannotated LV wall, and the first public echocardiographic dataset (HMC-QU)*
for MI detection. Furthermore, the outputs of the proposed approach can
significantly help cardiologists for a better assessment of the LV wall
characteristics. The proposed approach has achieved 95.72% sensitivity and
99.58% specificity for the LV wall segmentation, and 85.97% sensitivity, 74.03%
specificity, and 86.85% precision for MI detection on the HMC-QU dataset. *The
benchmark HMC-QU dataset is publicly shared at the repository
https://www.kaggle.com/aysendegerli/hmcqu-datase
Automated Diagnosis of Cardiovascular Diseases from Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging Using Deep Learning Models: A Review
In recent years, cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) have become one of the
leading causes of mortality globally. CVDs appear with minor symptoms and
progressively get worse. The majority of people experience symptoms such as
exhaustion, shortness of breath, ankle swelling, fluid retention, and other
symptoms when starting CVD. Coronary artery disease (CAD), arrhythmia,
cardiomyopathy, congenital heart defect (CHD), mitral regurgitation, and angina
are the most common CVDs. Clinical methods such as blood tests,
electrocardiography (ECG) signals, and medical imaging are the most effective
methods used for the detection of CVDs. Among the diagnostic methods, cardiac
magnetic resonance imaging (CMR) is increasingly used to diagnose, monitor the
disease, plan treatment and predict CVDs. Coupled with all the advantages of
CMR data, CVDs diagnosis is challenging for physicians due to many slices of
data, low contrast, etc. To address these issues, deep learning (DL) techniques
have been employed to the diagnosis of CVDs using CMR data, and much research
is currently being conducted in this field. This review provides an overview of
the studies performed in CVDs detection using CMR images and DL techniques. The
introduction section examined CVDs types, diagnostic methods, and the most
important medical imaging techniques. In the following, investigations to
detect CVDs using CMR images and the most significant DL methods are presented.
Another section discussed the challenges in diagnosing CVDs from CMR data.
Next, the discussion section discusses the results of this review, and future
work in CVDs diagnosis from CMR images and DL techniques are outlined. The most
important findings of this study are presented in the conclusion section