Boosting Cardiac Color Doppler Frame Rates with Deep Learning - Physics, Radiobiology, Medical Imaging, and Simulation (PRIMES)
Preprints, Working Papers, ... Year : 2024

Boosting Cardiac Color Doppler Frame Rates with Deep Learning

Abstract

Color Doppler echocardiography enables visualization of blood flow within the heart. However, the limited frame rate impedes the quantitative assessment of blood velocity throughout the cardiac cycle, thereby compromising a comprehensive analysis of ventricular filling. Concurrently, deep learning is demonstrating promising outcomes in post-processing of echocardiographic data for various applications. This work explores the use of deep learning models for intracardiac Doppler velocity estimation from a reduced number of filtered I/Q signals. We used a supervised learning approach by simulating patient-based cardiac color Doppler acquisitions and proposed data augmentation strategies to enlarge the training dataset. We implemented architectures based on convolutional neural networks. In particular, we focused on comparing the U-Net model and the recent ConvNeXt models, alongside assessing real-valued versus complex-valued representations. We found that both models outperformed the state-of-the-art autocorrelator method, effectively mitigating aliasing and noise. We did not observe significant differences between the use of real and complex data. Finally, we validated the models on in vitro and in vivo experiments. All models produced quantitatively comparable results to the baseline and were more robust to noise. ConvNeXt emerged as the sole model to achieve high-quality results on in vivo aliased samples. These results demonstrate the interest of supervised deep learning methods for Doppler velocity estimation from a reduced number of acquisitions.
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hal-04495325 , version 1 (27-03-2024)

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Julia Puig, Denis Friboulet, Hang Jung Ling, François Varray, Jonathan Porée, et al.. Boosting Cardiac Color Doppler Frame Rates with Deep Learning. 2024. ⟨hal-04495325⟩
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