融合多模型结构,精准生成心超图像的动态心脏网格。
GHOST-CAT: An Efficient and Practical Network for Mesh Generation from 3D Echocardiography

- 结合CNN、GCN与Transformer的两阶段网络设计
- 心腔与心肌Dice达0.87和0.75,表面误差3.3~3.5mm
- 适合临床心功能分析与数字孪生应用
深度学习显著加速了心脏影像处理流程,从分割到计算建模用网格生成。然而,3D心超图像因低信噪比、锥形视野及声影干扰带来独特挑战。本文提出一种高效实用的网络,用于生成左心室的时变3D网格。方法采用两阶段架构,融合卷积神经网络、图卷积网络与Transformer,生成拓扑一致且时间连贯的网格。在包含100张3D心超图像的独立测试集上,相较现有最优方法,心腔与心肌的Dice系数分别为0.87±0.05和0.75±0.07,内膜与外膜平均表面距离为3.3±0.6 mm与3.5±0.5 mm,参考标准来自心脏磁共振成像。重建网格支持自动计算容积、质量、应变等临床指标,并可拓展至生物物理数字孪生应用。源码已开源于https://github.com/EdwardFerdian/ghost-cat。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Recent advances in deep learning have significantly accelerated cardiac imaging workflows, from segmentation to the generation of meshes for computational modelling. Nevertheless, analysis of 3D echocardiograms presents unique challenges due to their low contrast-to-noise ratio, conical field of view, and susceptibility to acoustic shadowing. Here, we present an efficient and practical network tailored for 3D echocardiograms. Our method consists of a two-stage network that combines convolutional neural networks, graph convolutional networks, and transformers, to create accurate time-varying 3D meshes of the left ventricle that are topologically consistent and temporally coherent throughout the cardiac cycle. Our model achieved superior mesh reconstruction accuracy compared to current state-of-the-art methods on a held-out test dataset of 100 3D echo images, with a Dice coefficient of 0.87 +/- 0.05 (cavity) and 0.75 +/- 0.07 (myocardium), and mean +/- SD surface distances of 3.3 +/- 0.6 mm (endocardium) and 3.5 +/- 0.5 mm (epicardium), against reference segmentations derived from cardiac magnetic resonance imaging. The reconstructed mesh enables automated calculation of routine clinical indices, such as volume, mass, and strain, and enables advanced applications with biophysical digital twins. Source code is openly shared at https://github.com/EdwardFerdian/ghost-cat.
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