Differentiation of pre-ablation and post-ablation late gadolinium-enhanced cardiac MRI scans of longstanding persistent atrial fibrillation patients

Guang Yang; Xiahai Zhuang; Habib Khan; Shouvik Haldar; Eva Nyktari; Lei Li; Xujiong Ye; Greg Slabaugh; Tom Wong; Raad Mohiaddin; Jennifer Keegan; David Firmin

doi:10.1117/12.2250910

3 March 2017 Differentiation of pre-ablation and post-ablation late gadolinium-enhanced cardiac MRI scans of longstanding persistent atrial fibrillation patients

Guang Yang, Xiahai Zhuang, Habib Khan, Shouvik Haldar, Eva Nyktari, Lei Li, Xujiong Ye, Greg Slabaugh, Tom Wong, Raad Mohiaddin, Jennifer Keegan, David Firmin

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Proceedings Volume 10134, Medical Imaging 2017: Computer-Aided Diagnosis; 101340O (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2250910
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2017, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

Late Gadolinium-Enhanced Cardiac MRI (LGE CMRI) is an emerging non-invasive technique to image and quantify preablation native and post-ablation atrial scarring. Previous studies have reported that enhanced image intensities of the atrial scarring in the LGE CMRI inversely correlate with the left atrial endocardial voltage invasively obtained by electro-anatomical mapping. However, the reported reproducibility of using LGE CMRI to identify and quantify atrial scarring is variable. This may be due to two reasons: first, delineation of the left atrium (LA) and pulmonary veins (PVs) anatomy generally relies on manual operation that is highly subjective, and this could substantially affect the subsequent atrial scarring segmentation; second, simple intensity based image features may not be good enough to detect subtle changes in atrial scarring. In this study, we hypothesized that texture analysis can provide reliable image features for the LGE CMRI images subject to accurate and objective delineation of the heart anatomy based on a fully-automated whole heart segmentation (WHS) method. We tested the extracted texture features to differentiate between pre-ablation and post-ablation LGE CMRI studies in longstanding persistent atrial fibrillation patients. These patients often have extensive native scarring and differentiation from post-ablation scarring can be difficult. Quantification results showed that our method is capable of solving this classification task, and we can envisage further deployment of this texture analysis based method for other clinical problems using LGE CMRI.

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Guang Yang, Xiahai Zhuang, Habib Khan, Shouvik Haldar, Eva Nyktari, Lei Li, Xujiong Ye, Greg Slabaugh, Tom Wong, Raad Mohiaddin, Jennifer Keegan, and David Firmin "Differentiation of pre-ablation and post-ablation late gadolinium-enhanced cardiac MRI scans of longstanding persistent atrial fibrillation patients", Proc. SPIE 10134, Medical Imaging 2017: Computer-Aided Diagnosis, 101340O (3 March 2017); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2250910

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