用神经网络从医学影像数据反推心脏肌肉的收缩特性,提升心脏病诊断精度。
Physics-informed neural network estimation of active material properties in time-dependent cardiac biomechanical models
- 用物理约束神经网络联合求解心脏收缩场与参数,实现高分辨率重建。
- 在含噪数据下仍能准确还原时变主动应力分布,支持组织异质性分析。
- 适合心脏病学研究者、生物力学建模人员及医学影像算法开发者。
心肌生物力学中的主动应力模型可反映肌肉活动引起的机械变形,建立电生理与力学特性间的联系。准确评估主动应力参数对理解心肌功能至关重要,但在临床中因仅能获取医学影像的位移与应变数据而难以实现。本文通过仿真研究,探索物理信息神经网络(PINNs)从此类影像数据中反演时变心脏生物力学模型中的主动收缩参数的可行性。通过分别用两个神经网络参数化待求状态场与参数场,并构建能量最小化问题以优化网络参数,实现了在不同噪声条件与高空间分辨率下的主动应力场重建。为此,改进了基础PINN算法,引入自适应权重、定制正则化策略、傅里叶特征与合适网络结构。同时系统分析了损失权重对参数重建的影响。最后,将方法应用于心肌组织异质性表征与纤维化瘢痕检测。该方法为改善与心肌纤维化相关的心脏病诊断、治疗规划与管理提供了新路径。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Active stress models in cardiac biomechanics account for the mechanical deformation caused by muscle activity, thus providing a link between the electrophysiological and mechanical properties of the tissue. The accurate assessment of active stress parameters is fundamental for a precise understanding of myocardial function but remains difficult to achieve in a clinical setting, especially when only displacement and strain data from medical imaging modalities are available. This work investigates, through an in-silico study, the application of physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) for inferring active contractility parameters in time-dependent cardiac biomechanical models from these types of imaging data. In particular, by parametrising the sought state and parameter field with two neural networks, respectively, and formulating an energy minimisation problem to search for the optimal network parameters, we are able to reconstruct in various settings active stress fields in the presence of noise and with a high spatial resolution. To this end, we also advance the vanilla PINN learning algorithm with the use of adaptive weighting schemes, ad-hoc regularisation strategies, Fourier features, and suitable network architectures. In addition, we thoroughly analyse the influence of the loss weights in the reconstruction of active stress parameters. Finally, we apply the method to the characterisation of tissue inhomogeneities and detection of fibrotic scars in myocardial tissue. This approach opens a new pathway to significantly improve the diagnosis, treatment planning, and management of heart conditions associated with cardiac fibrosis.
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