自动化重建胎儿心脏MRI动态3D图像,提升效率与临床可用性
SPARC: Slice-to-volume Pipeline for Automated Reconstruction of gated 3D+time fetal Cardiac MRI

- 融合物理模型与深度学习,实现2D切片到3D+时间体积的自动拼接
- 重建速度提升10倍,90%以上病例可成功完成自动处理
- 适合胎儿心脏病研究与临床影像分析人员使用
胎儿心脏MRI(fCMR)为复杂先天性心脏病(CHD)提供超声心动图之外的重要诊断信息。动态电影成像可捕捉心脏运动,但基于2D+时间切片重建3D+时间电影体积仍面临胎儿运动不可预测、缺乏自动化可靠工具等挑战。本文提出SPARC管道(Slice-to-volume Pipeline for Automated Reconstruction of gated 3D+time fetal Cardiac MRI),结合基于多普勒超声门控的切片到体积重建(SVR)与深度学习模型,实现胸腔分割和解剖方向校正。该方法相比逐帧重建显著提速(4.8±1.0分钟 vs 49.0±14.1分钟,p<0.0001),且重建质量更优;集成分割模型的骰子系数达84.7±3.9%,优于人工评估者间一致性(81.4±7.7%);解剖重定向成功率90.1%。在121例独立临床队列中,端到端评估显示82.6%病例可全自动处理,平均耗时7.1±1.3分钟,具备临床部署可行性。SPARC已作为Docker容器公开发布(https://hub.docker.com/r/aboutill/sparc),并在本机构作为临床研究工具部署。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Fetal cardiac MRI (fCMR) provides valuable diagnostic information complementary to echocardiography, particularly for complex congenital heart disease (CHD). Dynamic cine imaging captures cardiac motion essential for assessment of cardiac function; however, the reconstruction of 3D+time cine volumes from 2D+time acquired slices remains challenging due to unpredictable fetal motion and the absence of automated and robust processing tools suitable for clinical deployment. We present the SPARC pipeline (Slice-to-volume Pipeline for Automated Reconstruction of gated 3D+time fetal Cardiac MRI) which combines physics-informed slice-to-volume reconstruction (SVR) of Doppler ultrasound (DUS) gated stacks of slices, assisted by deep learning (DL) models for thoracic segmentation and anatomical reorientation. The proposed SVR algorithm achieves a tenfold reduction in reconstruction time relative to existing frame-wise approaches ($4.8 \pm 1.0$ vs $49.0 \pm 14.1$ min, $p < 0.0001$) while improving the reconstruction quality. Thoracic segmentation performance using ensemble aggregation exceeded inter-rater agreement (Dice $84.7 \pm 3.9\%$ vs $81.4 \pm 7.7\%$, $p<0.05$), while anatomical reorientation achieved a success rate of $90.1\%$. End-to-end evaluation on a large held-out clinical cohort ($n = 121$) demonstrated fully automatic processing in $82.6\%$ of cases with a mean runtime of $7.1 \pm 1.3$ min, compatible with clinical deployment. The complete SPARC pipeline is publicly available as a Docker container https://hub.docker.com/r/aboutill/sparc and is currently deployed at our institution as a clinical research tool.
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