Developing an Echocardiography-Based, Automatic Deep Learning Framework for the Differentiation of Increased Left Ventricular Wall Thickness Etiologies

James Li, Chieh Ju Chao, Jiwoong Jason Jeong, Juan Maria Farina, Amith R. Seri, Timothy Barry, Hana Newman, Megan Campany, Merna Abdou, Michael O’Shea, Sean Smith, Bishoy Abraham, Seyedeh Maryam Hosseini, Yuxiang Wang, Steven Lester, Said Alsidawi, Susan Wilansky, Eric Steidley, Julie Rosenthal, Chadi AyoubChristopher P. Appleton, Win Kuang Shen, Martha Grogan, Garvan C. Kane, Jae K. Oh, Bhavik N. Patel, Reza Arsanjani, Imon Banerjee

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Abstract

Aims:Increased left ventricular (LV) wall thickness is frequently encountered in transthoracic echocardiography (TTE). While accurate and early diagnosis is clinically important, given the differences in available therapeutic options and prognosis, an extensive workup is often required to establish the diagnosis. We propose the first echo-based, automated deep learning model with a fusion architecture to facilitate the evaluation and diagnosis of increased left ventricular (LV) wall thickness. Methods and Results: Patients with an established diagnosis of increased LV wall thickness (hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), cardiac amyloidosis (CA), and hypertensive heart disease (HTN)/others) between 1/2015 and 11/2019 at Mayo Clinic Arizona were identified. The cohort was divided into 80%/10%/10% for training, validation, and testing sets, respectively. Six baseline TTE views were used to optimize a pre-trained InceptionResnetV2 model. Each model output was used to train a meta-learner under a fusion architecture. Model performance was assessed by multiclass area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUROC). A total of 586 patients were used for the final analysis (194 HCM, 201 CA, and 191 HTN/others). The mean age was 55.0 years, and 57.8% were male. Among the individual view-dependent models, the apical 4-chamber model had the best performance (AUROC: HCM: 0.94, CA: 0.73, and HTN/other: 0.87). The final fusion model outperformed all the view-dependent models (AUROC: HCM: 0.93, CA: 0.90, and HTN/other: 0.92). Conclusion: The echo-based InceptionResnetV2 fusion model can accurately classify the main etiologies of increased LV wall thickness and can facilitate the process of diagnosis and workup.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number48
JournalJournal of Imaging
Volume9
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Feb 2023

Keywords

  • LV wall thickness
  • deep learning
  • echocardiography

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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