Quantitative analysis of arterial flow properties for detection of non-calcified plaques in ECG-gated coronary CT angiography

Jun Wei; Chuan Zhou; Heang-Ping Chan; Aamer Chughtai; Prachi Agarwal; Jean Kuriakose; Lubomir Hadjiiski; Smita Patel; Ella Kazerooni

doi:10.1117/12.2082367

20 March 2015 Quantitative analysis of arterial flow properties for detection of non-calcified plaques in ECG-gated coronary CT angiography

Jun Wei, Chuan Zhou, Heang-Ping Chan, Aamer Chughtai, Prachi Agarwal, Jean Kuriakose, Lubomir Hadjiiski, Smita Patel, Ella Kazerooni

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Proceedings Volume 9414, Medical Imaging 2015: Computer-Aided Diagnosis; 94141H (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2082367
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2015, Orlando, Florida, United States

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We are developing a computer-aided detection system to assist radiologists in detection of non-calcified plaques (NCPs) in coronary CT angiograms (cCTA). In this study, we performed quantitative analysis of arterial flow properties in each vessel branch and extracted flow information to differentiate the presence and absence of stenosis in a vessel segment. Under rest conditions, blood flow in a single vessel branch was assumed to follow Poiseuille’s law. For a uniform pressure distribution, two quantitative flow features, the normalized arterial compliance per unit length (C_u) and the normalized volumetric flow (Q) along the vessel centerline, were calculated based on the parabolic Poiseuille solution. The flow features were evaluated for a two-class classification task to differentiate NCP candidates obtained by prescreening as true NCPs and false positives (FPs) in cCTA. For evaluation, a data set of 83 cCTA scans was retrospectively collected from 83 patient files with IRB approval. A total of 118 NCPs were identified by experienced cardiothoracic radiologists. The correlation between the two flow features was 0.32. The discriminatory ability of the flow features evaluated as the area under the ROC curve (AUC) was 0.65 for C_u and 0.63 for Q in comparison with AUCs of 0.56-0.69 from our previous luminal features. With stepwise LDA feature selection, volumetric flow (Q) was selected in addition to three other luminal features. With FROC analysis, the test results indicated a reduction of the FP rates to 3.14, 1.98, and 1.32 FPs/scan at sensitivities of 90%, 80%, and 70%, respectively. The study indicated that quantitative blood flow analysis has the potential to provide useful features for the detection of NCPs in cCTA.

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Jun Wei, Chuan Zhou, Heang-Ping Chan, Aamer Chughtai, Prachi Agarwal, Jean Kuriakose, Lubomir Hadjiiski, Smita Patel, and Ella Kazerooni "Quantitative analysis of arterial flow properties for detection of non-calcified plaques in ECG-gated coronary CT angiography", Proc. SPIE 9414, Medical Imaging 2015: Computer-Aided Diagnosis, 94141H (20 March 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2082367

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Arteries

Angiography

Blood circulation

Heart

Quantitative analysis

Computed tomography

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