arXiv:2503.05322cs.CVcs.AI2025-03被引 2

用双坐标系分析心内OCT图像,自动识别血迹与气泡导致的伪影严重程度。

Attenuation artifact detection and severity classification in intracoronary OCT using mixed image representations

  • 融合笛卡尔与极坐标图像特征,提升伪影检测能力
  • 轻度与重度伪影检测F-score分别达0.77和0.94
  • 适合介入心脏病学中实时图像质量评估与重扫指导

在心内光学相干断层扫描(OCT)中,血液残留和气泡会引起衰减伪影,掩盖关键血管结构。这些伪影的存在与严重程度可能需要重新采集图像,延长操作时间并增加造影剂使用量。准确检测可指导针对性重扫,减少重复扫描次数,提升诊断图像质量。然而,伪影外观高度异质,自动化检测面临挑战。为此,我们提出一种卷积神经网络,对衰减线(A-lines)进行三分类:无伪影、轻度伪影、严重伪影。模型同时提取并融合笛卡尔与极坐标表示下的图像特征,每列图像代表一条A-line。该方法在完整OCT帧中检测轻度与重度伪影的F-score分别为0.77和0.94,单次全扫描推理时间约6秒。实验表明,结合两种坐标系的分析优于仅使用极坐标,说明二者包含互补特征。本研究为心内OCT图像的自动化伪影评估与采集引导奠定基础。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

In intracoronary optical coherence tomography (OCT), blood residues and gas bubbles cause attenuation artifacts that can obscure critical vessel structures. The presence and severity of these artifacts may warrant re-acquisition, prolonging procedure time and increasing use of contrast agent. Accurate detection of these artifacts can guide targeted re-acquisition, reducing the amount of repeated scans needed to achieve diagnostically viable images. However, the highly heterogeneous appearance of these artifacts poses a challenge for the automated detection of the affected image regions. To enable automatic detection of the attenuation artifacts caused by blood residues and gas bubbles based on their severity, we propose a convolutional neural network that performs classification of the attenuation lines (A-lines) into three classes: no artifact, mild artifact and severe artifact. Our model extracts and merges features from OCT images in both Cartesian and polar coordinates, where each column of the image represents an A-line. Our method detects the presence of attenuation artifacts in OCT frames reaching F-scores of 0.77 and 0.94 for mild and severe artifacts, respectively. The inference time over a full OCT scan is approximately 6 seconds. Our experiments show that analysis of images represented in both Cartesian and polar coordinate systems outperforms the analysis in polar coordinates only, suggesting that these representations contain complementary features. This work lays the foundation for automated artifact assessment and image acquisition guidance in intracoronary OCT imaging.

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