用几何深度学习预测冠脉血流动力学,变压器模型表现最佳。
Learning Hemodynamic Scalar Fields on Coronary Artery Meshes: A Benchmark of Geometric Deep Learning Models
- 用6种网络在冠脉网格上学习血流动力学,比较不同变量的预测效果
- 压力降是最优输出,变压器模型在患者数据上误差最小且准确率最高
- 适合心血管建模、医学影像分析的研究者参考
冠状动脉疾病是全球主要致死原因,由动脉粥样硬化导致血管狭窄。诊断金标准为血流储备分数(FFR),需在最大扩张下测量跨狭窄压差,但具有侵入性和高成本。为此发展了基于计算流体动力学(CFD)的虚拟FFR(vFFR)。几何深度学习算法在网格上学习特征方面展现出潜力,尤其适用于心血管研究。本研究系统评估多种后端模型作为冠脉中血流动力学场的替代方案,使用CFD解作为真实值,共分析六种模型。第一部分基于1500个合成左冠状动脉分叉结构,训练模型预测与压力相关的场以重建vFFR,比较不同学习变量;第二部分在427例患者特异性CFD模拟上重复实验,聚焦合成数据中表现最优的学习变量。大多数后端在合成数据上表现良好,尤其是预测流形上的压力降。基于变压器的后端在预测压力和vFFR场时优于其他模型,是唯一在患者数据上保持强性能的模型,在平均点误差和狭窄病变处的vFFR准确性方面均表现优异。结果表明,几何深度学习可有效替代简单几何的CFD,而变压器网络在复杂异构数据上更具优势。压力降被确认为学习压力相关场的最佳输出。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Coronary artery disease, caused by the narrowing of coronary vessels due to atherosclerosis, is the leading cause of death worldwide. The diagnostic gold standard, fractional flow reserve (FFR), measures the trans-stenotic pressure ratio during maximal vasodilation but is invasive and costly. This has driven the development of virtual FFR (vFFR) using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) to simulate coronary flow. Geometric deep learning algorithms have shown promise for learning features on meshes, including cardiovascular research applications. This study empirically analyzes various backends for predicting vFFR fields in coronary arteries as CFD surrogates, comparing six backends for learning hemodynamics on meshes using CFD solutions as ground truth. The study has two parts: i) Using 1,500 synthetic left coronary artery bifurcations, models were trained to predict pressure-related fields for vFFR reconstruction, comparing different learning variables. ii) Using 427 patient-specific CFD simulations, experiments were repeated focusing on the best-performing learning variable from the synthetic dataset. Most backends performed well on the synthetic dataset, especially when predicting pressure drop over the manifold. Transformer-based backends outperformed others when predicting pressure and vFFR fields and were the only models achieving strong performance on patient-specific data, excelling in both average per-point error and vFFR accuracy in stenotic lesions. These results suggest geometric deep learning backends can effectively replace CFD for simple geometries, while transformer-based networks are superior for complex, heterogeneous datasets. Pressure drop was identified as the optimal network output for learning pressure-related fields.
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