用图Transformer模型实时预测脑动脉瘤血流剪切力,无需耗时的仿真计算。
Real-Time Pulsatile Flow Prediction for Realistic, Diverse Intracranial Aneurysm Morphologies using a Graph Transformer and Steady-Flow Data Augmentation
- 采用带时间信息的图Transformer,从血管表面网格预测血流变化
- 峰值相对L2误差仅2.8%,结构相似性达0.981,精度接近真实仿真
- 用低成本稳态数据增强,小样本下仍保持高性能,适合临床应用
大量研究表明,基于计算流体动力学(CFD)得到的颅内动脉瘤(IA)流体力学指标可指示疾病进展风险,但尚未实现临床转化。这是因为CFD需专业技能、耗时且通量低,难以支撑临床试验。深度学习模型若能将动脉瘤形态映射为生物力学指标,可实现医生实时获取这些参数而无需运行CFD。本文展示,一个结合时间信息的图Transformer模型,在大规模CFD数据监督下,能准确预测心脏周期中动脉瘤壁面剪切应力(WSS)的动态变化。该模型有效捕捉了WSS随时间的变化模式,结构相似性指数(SSIM)最高达0.981,最大相对L2误差仅为2.8%。消融实验与当前最优方法对比验证了其优越性。由于脉动CFD数据生成成本高、样本有限,研究引入大量低成本稳态CFD数据作为数据增强策略,显著提升了网络性能,尤其在脉动数据样本少时效果突出。本研究证明:通过深度学习模型,仅凭几何网格即可实现实时计算心血管流体力学参数序列,即使脉动数据样本量小亦可行。该方法有望推广至其他心血管场景。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Extensive studies suggested that fluid mechanical markers of intracranial aneurysms (IAs) derived from Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) can indicate disease progression risks, but to date this has not been translated clinically. This is because CFD requires specialized expertise and is time-consuming and low throughput, making it difficult to support clinical trials. A deep learning model that maps IA morphology to biomechanical markers can address this, enabling physicians to obtain these markers in real time without performing CFD. Here, we show that a Graph Transformer model that incorporates temporal information, which is supervised by large CFD data, can accurately predict Wall Shear Stress (WSS) across the cardiac cycle from IA surface meshes. The model effectively captures the temporal variations of the WSS pattern, achieving a Structural Similarity Index (SSIM) of up to 0.981 and a maximum-based relative L2 error of 2.8%. Ablation studies and SOTA comparison confirmed its optimality. Further, as pulsatile CFD data is computationally expensive to generate and sample sizes are limited, we engaged a strategy of injecting a large amount of steady-state CFD data, which are extremely low-cost to generate, as augmentation. This approach enhances network performance substantially when pulsatile CFD data sample size is small. Our study provides a proof of concept that temporal sequences cardiovascular fluid mechanical parameters can be computed in real time using a deep learning model from the geometric mesh, and this is achievable even with small pulsatile CFD sample size. Our approach is likely applicable to other cardiovascular scenarios.
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