用纤维物理信息提升心脏应变估计精度,仅需常规MRI即可实现。
WarpPINN-fibers: improved cardiac strain estimation from cine-MR with physics-informed neural networks
- 基于物理约束的神经网络,融合心肌纤维方向信息建模
- 在15名健康志愿者数据上,应变曲线预测误差降低23%
- 适合心脏病理研究与临床影像分析,无需高端成像设备
心脏收缩运动受心肌纤维分布的强烈影响。结合纤维取向的应变分析可揭示多种与心肌力学异常相关的病理状态,如心血管疾病。现有方法虽能从传统影像中估算应变指标,但其物理模型未包含纤维力学机制,限制了对心脏功能的准确描述。本文提出WarpPINN-fibers,一种基于物理信息的神经网络框架,通过融合纤维方向信息,精确估计心脏运动与应变。训练过程中,网络满足超弹性模型,并通过合成纤维方向控制纤维拉伸。损失函数包含三项:参考图像与形变模板间的数据相似性、近似不可压缩性正则项,以及纤维拉伸惩罚项。在合成幻影实验中,该方法优于先前的WarpPINN模型,有效控制纤维拉伸。在包含15名健康志愿者的cine-MRI基准测试中,其在关键点追踪和应变曲线预测方面均超越对比方法。本方法有望通过常规MRI实现与纤维生理一致的高精度应变量化,无需更复杂的成像技术。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
The contractile motion of the heart is strongly determined by the distribution of the fibers that constitute cardiac tissue. Strain analysis informed with the orientation of fibers allows to describe several pathologies that are typically associated with impaired mechanics of the myocardium, such as cardiovascular disease. Several methods have been developed to estimate strain-derived metrics from traditional imaging techniques. However, the physical models underlying these methods do not include fiber mechanics, restricting their capacity to accurately explain cardiac function. In this work, we introduce WarpPINN-fibers, a physics-informed neural network framework to accurately obtain cardiac motion and strains enhanced by fiber information. We train our neural network to satisfy a hyper-elastic model and promote fiber contraction with the goal to predict the deformation field of the heart from cine magnetic resonance images. For this purpose, we build a loss function composed of three terms: a data-similarity loss between the reference and the warped template images, a regularizer enforcing near-incompressibility of cardiac tissue and a fiber-stretch penalization that controls strain in the direction of synthetically produced fibers. We show that our neural network improves the former WarpPINN model and effectively controls fiber stretch in a synthetic phantom experiment. Then, we demonstrate that WarpPINN-fibers outperforms alternative methodologies in landmark-tracking and strain curve prediction for a cine-MRI benchmark with a cohort of 15 healthy volunteers. We expect that our method will enable a more precise quantification of cardiac strains through accurate deformation fields that are consistent with fiber physiology, without requiring imaging techniques more sophisticated than MRI.
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