Ultrasound video transformers for cardiac ejection fraction estimation
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Author(s)
Type
Conference Paper
Abstract
Cardiac ultrasound imaging is used to diagnose various heart diseases. Common analysis pipelines involve manual processing of the video frames by expert clinicians. This suffers from intra- and inter-observer variability. We propose a novel approach to ultrasound video analysis using a transformer architecture based on a Residual Auto-Encoder Network and a BERT model adapted for token classification. This enables videos of any length to be processed. We apply our model to the task of End-Systolic (ES) and End-Diastolic (ED) frame detection and the automated computation of the left ventricular ejection fraction. We achieve an average frame distance of 3.36 frames for the ES and 7.17 frames for the ED on videos of arbitrary length. Our end-to-end learnable approach can estimate the ejection fraction with a MAE of 5.95 and R2 of 0.52 in 0.15 s per video, showing that segmentation is not the only way to predict ejection fraction. Code and models are available at https://github.com/HReynaud/UVT.
Date Issued
2021-09-21
Date Acceptance
2021-06-11
Citation
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2021, 12906, pp.495-505
ISSN
0302-9743
Publisher
Springer
Start Page
495
End Page
505
Journal / Book Title
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume
12906
Copyright Statement
© 2021 Springer Nature Switzerland AG. The final publication is available at Springer via https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-87231-1_48
Source
24th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention
Subjects
Science & Technology
Life Sciences & Biomedicine
Technology
Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems
Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Computer Science, Software Engineering
Engineering, Biomedical
Imaging Science & Photographic Technology
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging
Cardiovascular System & Cardiology
Computer Science
Engineering
Transformers
Cardiac
Ultrasound
REAL-TIME
AUTOMATIC DETECTION
END-DIASTOLE
ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY
Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing
Publication Status
Published
Start Date
2021-09-27
Finish Date
2021-10-01
Coverage Spatial
Strassburg, France
Date Publish Online
2021-09-21