arXiv:2505.05518eess.IVcs.CV2025-05

AI预测心脏超声中导管尖端角度,保持实时可见性。

Guidance for Intra-cardiac Echocardiography Manipulation to Maintain Continuous Therapy Device Tip Visibility

  • 用真实与合成数据混合训练模型,提升泛化能力。
  • 定位误差仅3.32度,旋转误差12.76度,精度高。
  • 适合做机器人辅助心脏介入的医生或研发人员。

经心腔超声(ICE)在电生理和结构性心脏病介入中提供实时心内结构可视化,但手动操作时导管尖端常失联。为此,我们提出一种基于AI的跟踪模型,可估计导管尖端在超声图像中的入射角与穿行点,确保连续可视,并支持机器人控制。关键创新在于混合数据集生成策略:在水箱中采集带电磁传感器的真实序列,同时通过叠加导管尖端到真实图像生成合成序列,保持运动连续性并模拟多样解剖场景。最终数据集包含5,698对冰超-导管尖端图像,覆盖全面。模型采用预训练超声基础模型(3740万张图像)提取特征,结合基于Transformer的网络处理时序帧,利用历史信息提升预测精度。实验显示,入射角误差为3.32度,旋转角误差为12.76度。该框架为实时机器人调节提供支持,降低操作负担,保障治疗导管始终可见。未来将扩展临床数据以增强泛化能力。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Intra-cardiac Echocardiography (ICE) plays a critical role in Electrophysiology (EP) and Structural Heart Disease (SHD) interventions by providing real-time visualization of intracardiac structures. However, maintaining continuous visibility of the therapy device tip remains a challenge due to frequent adjustments required during manual ICE catheter manipulation. To address this, we propose an AI-driven tracking model that estimates the device tip incident angle and passing point within the ICE imaging plane, ensuring continuous visibility and facilitating robotic ICE catheter control. A key innovation of our approach is the hybrid dataset generation strategy, which combines clinical ICE sequences with synthetic data augmentation to enhance model robustness. We collected ICE images in a water chamber setup, equipping both the ICE catheter and device tip with electromagnetic (EM) sensors to establish precise ground-truth locations. Synthetic sequences were created by overlaying catheter tips onto real ICE images, preserving motion continuity while simulating diverse anatomical scenarios. The final dataset consists of 5,698 ICE-tip image pairs, ensuring comprehensive training coverage. Our model architecture integrates a pretrained ultrasound (US) foundation model, trained on 37.4M echocardiography images, for feature extraction. A transformer-based network processes sequential ICE frames, leveraging historical passing points and incident angles to improve prediction accuracy. Experimental results demonstrate that our method achieves 3.32 degree entry angle error, 12.76 degree rotation angle error. This AI-driven framework lays the foundation for real-time robotic ICE catheter adjustments, minimizing operator workload while ensuring consistent therapy device visibility. Future work will focus on expanding clinical datasets to further enhance model generalization.

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