NeCA: 3D Coronary Artery Tree Reconstruction from Two 2D Projections via Neural Implicit Representation

Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the most common health threats worldwide. 2D X-ray invasive coronary angiography (ICA) remains the most widely adopted imaging modality for CVD assessment during real-time cardiac interventions. However, it is often difficult for the cardiologists to interpret the...

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Main Authors: Yiying Wang, Abhirup Banerjee, Vicente Grau
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description Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the most common health threats worldwide. 2D X-ray invasive coronary angiography (ICA) remains the most widely adopted imaging modality for CVD assessment during real-time cardiac interventions. However, it is often difficult for the cardiologists to interpret the 3D geometry of coronary vessels based on 2D planes. Moreover, due to the radiation limit, often only two angiographic projections are acquired, providing limited information of the vessel geometry and necessitating 3D coronary tree reconstruction based only on two ICA projections. In this paper, we propose a self-supervised deep learning method called NeCA, which is based on neural implicit representation using the multiresolution hash encoder and differentiable cone-beam forward projector layer, in order to achieve 3D coronary artery tree reconstruction from two 2D projections. We validate our method using six different metrics on a dataset generated from coronary computed tomography angiography of right coronary artery and left anterior descending artery. The evaluation results demonstrate that our NeCA method, without requiring 3D ground truth for supervision or large datasets for training, achieves promising performance in both vessel topology and branch-connectivity preservation compared to the supervised deep learning model.
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spelling doaj-art-b32f9a0011fd44469daf831c1f208b522024-12-27T14:11:33ZengMDPI AGBioengineering2306-53542024-12-011112122710.3390/bioengineering11121227NeCA: 3D Coronary Artery Tree Reconstruction from Two 2D Projections via Neural Implicit RepresentationYiying Wang0Abhirup Banerjee1Vicente Grau2Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7DQ, UKInstitute of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7DQ, UKInstitute of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7DQ, UKCardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the most common health threats worldwide. 2D X-ray invasive coronary angiography (ICA) remains the most widely adopted imaging modality for CVD assessment during real-time cardiac interventions. However, it is often difficult for the cardiologists to interpret the 3D geometry of coronary vessels based on 2D planes. Moreover, due to the radiation limit, often only two angiographic projections are acquired, providing limited information of the vessel geometry and necessitating 3D coronary tree reconstruction based only on two ICA projections. In this paper, we propose a self-supervised deep learning method called NeCA, which is based on neural implicit representation using the multiresolution hash encoder and differentiable cone-beam forward projector layer, in order to achieve 3D coronary artery tree reconstruction from two 2D projections. We validate our method using six different metrics on a dataset generated from coronary computed tomography angiography of right coronary artery and left anterior descending artery. The evaluation results demonstrate that our NeCA method, without requiring 3D ground truth for supervision or large datasets for training, achieves promising performance in both vessel topology and branch-connectivity preservation compared to the supervised deep learning model.https://www.mdpi.com/2306-5354/11/12/12273D coronary artery tree reconstructioninvasive coronary angiographylimited-projection reconstructionneural implicit representationself-supervised learningdeep learning
spellingShingle Yiying Wang
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NeCA: 3D Coronary Artery Tree Reconstruction from Two 2D Projections via Neural Implicit Representation
Bioengineering
3D coronary artery tree reconstruction
invasive coronary angiography
limited-projection reconstruction
neural implicit representation
self-supervised learning
deep learning
title NeCA: 3D Coronary Artery Tree Reconstruction from Two 2D Projections via Neural Implicit Representation
title_full NeCA: 3D Coronary Artery Tree Reconstruction from Two 2D Projections via Neural Implicit Representation
title_fullStr NeCA: 3D Coronary Artery Tree Reconstruction from Two 2D Projections via Neural Implicit Representation
title_full_unstemmed NeCA: 3D Coronary Artery Tree Reconstruction from Two 2D Projections via Neural Implicit Representation
title_short NeCA: 3D Coronary Artery Tree Reconstruction from Two 2D Projections via Neural Implicit Representation
title_sort neca 3d coronary artery tree reconstruction from two 2d projections via neural implicit representation
topic 3D coronary artery tree reconstruction
invasive coronary angiography
limited-projection reconstruction
neural implicit representation
self-supervised learning
deep learning
url https://www.mdpi.com/2306-5354/11/12/1227
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