arXiv:2604.22258cs.LGcs.AI2026-04

用2.5D U-Net实现实时检测心脏手术中的气泡微栓塞,精度高且速度快。

Protect the Brain When Treating the Heart: Feasibility of 2.5D U-Net for Real-Time Gaseous Microemboli Detection

论文配图:Protect the Brain When Treating the Heart: Feasibility of 2.5D U-Net for Real-Time Gaseous Microemboli Detection
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  • 采用2.5D U-Net处理时空连续的超声视频,提升运动气泡检测能力。
  • 在留一患者交叉验证中,精确率达92.55%,召回率达80.54%,支持实时推理。
  • 适合心血管外科医生用于术中快速识别微栓塞,辅助安全决策。

气泡微栓塞(GME)是心脏结构介入治疗中常见并发症,无论外科或经导管方式均可能发生。术中经食道超声(TEE)是监测和可视化循环中GME的便捷方法,但因其受操作者视角影响、移动速度快、背景结构相似,检测与量化极具挑战。本文提出基于2.5D U-Net架构的可行性研究,用于在时空连续数据中检测GME。在包含8名患者、每秒60帧、分辨率600×800像素的初步数据集上测试,该模型相比传统点检测算法和2D U-Net显著提升对运动GME的检测效果,同时保持与复杂深度学习模型相当的实时性。在留一患者交叉验证下,采用三像素容忍区评估,模型达到92.55%精确率、80.54%召回率,对应半径容忍交并比(IoU)为73.95%,Dice系数为84.13%;严格像素分割评估则获得41.74% IoU与57.98% Dice系数。平均单批推理时间仅0.12秒。额外在外部无GME的TEE数据集上验证,模型输出几乎为空掩码,表明误检率低。结果证实了实时GME分割的技术可行性。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Gaseous microemboli (GME) represent a common complication of cardiac structural interventions across both surgical and transcatheter approaches. Intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) represents a convenient methodology to monitor and visualize the presence of circulating GME. However, their detection and quantification are far from trivial due to operator-dependent view, high velocity, and objects with similar structure in the background. Here, we propose a feasibility study based on a 2.5D U-Net architecture to detect GME in space-time connected data. We applied and tested such an architecture on a pilot dataset of eight TEE recordings ($60$ fps, $600\times 800$ pixels) from eight different patients undergoing cardiac surgery, resulting in improved detection of moving GMEs against the background with respect to classical spot detection algorithms and 2D U-Net, yet retaining real-time execution speed with respect to more complex deep-learning architectures. Under leave-one-patient-out cross-validation, the selected model achieved strong detection performance under a three-pixel radius-tolerant grace-zone evaluation, with a precision of 92.55\% and recall of 80.54\%, corresponding to radius-tolerant Intersection over Union (IoU) and Dice coefficients of 73.95\% and 84.13\%, respectively. Complementarily, strict pixel-based segmentation metrics were also computed, yielding an IoU of 41.74\% and a Dice coefficient of 57.98\%. The selected model achieved an average inference time of $0.12 s$ per batch on the tested hardware. To assess specificity on unseen data, we additionally evaluated the model on an external GME-negative TEE dataset, where it produced predominantly empty or near-empty masks, indicating a low rate of spurious detections. These results support the technical feasibility of real-time GME segmentation.

医学图像实时检测超声深度学习

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