| Title: | Automated Quality-Controlled Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Pericardial Fat Quantification Using a Convolutional Neural Network in the UK Biobank |
| Journal: | Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine |
| Published: | 7 Jul 2021 |
| Pubmed: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34307493/ |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.3389/fcvm.2021.677574 |
| URL: | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcvm.2021.677574/pdf |
| Citations: | 15 (8 in last 2 years) as of 8 Aug 2024 |
Publication 4331
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Abstract
Background: Pericardial adipose tissue (PAT) may represent a novel risk marker for cardiovascular disease. However, absence of rapid radiation-free PAT quantification methods has precluded its examination in large cohorts. Objectives: We developed a fully automated quality-controlled tool for cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) PAT quantification in the UK Biobank (UKB). Methods: Image analysis comprised contouring an en-bloc PAT area on four-chamber cine images. We created a ground truth manual analysis dataset randomly split into training and test sets. We built a neural network for automated segmentation using a Multi-residual U-net architecture with incorporation of permanently active dropout layers to facilitate quality control of the model's output using Monte Carlo sampling. We developed an in-built quality control feature, which presents predicted Dice scores. We evaluated model performance against the test set (n = 87), the whole UKB Imaging cohort (n = 45,519), and an external dataset (n = 103). In an independent dataset, we compared automated CMR and cardiac computed tomography (CCT) PAT quantification. Finally, we tested association of CMR PAT with diabetes in the UKB (n = 42,928). Results: Agreement between automated and manual segmentations in the test set was almost identical to inter-observer variability (mean Dice score = 0.8). The quality control method predicted individual Dice scores with Pearson r = 0.75. Model performance remained high in the whole UKB Imaging cohort and in the external dataset, with medium-good quality segmentation in 94.3% (mean Dice score = 0.77) and 94.4% (mean Dice score = 0.78), respectively. There was high correlation between CMR and CCT PAT measures (Pearson r = 0.72, p-value 5.3 ×10-18). Larger CMR PAT area was associated with significantly greater odds of diabetes independent of age, sex, and body mass index. Conclusions: We present a novel fully automated method for CMR PAT quantification with good model performance on independent and external datasets, high correlation with reference standard CCT PAT measurement, and expected clinical associations with diabetes.</p>
11 Authors
- Andrew Bard
- Zahra Raisi-Estabragh
- Maddalena Ardissino
- Aaron Mark Lee
- Francesca Pugliese
- Damini Dey
- Sandip Sarkar
- Patricia B. Munroe
- Stefan Neubauer
- Nicholas C. Harvey
- Steffen E. Petersen
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