Deep Learning for Prediction of Obstructive Disease From Fast Myocardial Perfusion SPECT: A Multicenter Study.
Betancur JDepartment of Imaging (Division of Nuclear Medicine), Medicine, and Biomedical Sciences, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California.
Commandeur FDepartment of Imaging (Division of Nuclear Medicine), Medicine, and Biomedical Sciences, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California.
Motlagh MDepartment of Imaging (Division of Nuclear Medicine), Medicine, and Biomedical Sciences, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California.
Sharir TDepartment of Nuclear Cardiology, Assuta Medical Centers, Tel Aviv, Israel; Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheba, Israel.
Einstein AJDivision of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center and New York-Presbyterian Hospital, New York, New York; Department of Radiology, Columbia University Medical Center and New York-Presbyterian Hospital, New York, New York.
Bokhari SDivision of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center and New York-Presbyterian Hospital, New York, New York.
Fish MBOregon Heart and Vascular Institute, Sacred Heart Medical Center, Springfield, Oregon.
Ruddy TDDivision of Cardiology, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, Canada.
Kaufmann PDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, Cardiac Imaging, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Sinusas AJSection of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.
Miller EJSection of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.
Bateman TMCardiovascular Imaging Technologies LLC, Kansas City, Missouri.
Dorbala SDepartment of Radiology, Division of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
Di Carli MDepartment of Radiology, Division of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
Germano GDepartment of Imaging (Division of Nuclear Medicine), Medicine, and Biomedical Sciences, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California.
Otaki YDepartment of Imaging (Division of Nuclear Medicine), Medicine, and Biomedical Sciences, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California.
Tamarappoo BKDepartment of Imaging (Division of Nuclear Medicine), Medicine, and Biomedical Sciences, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California.
Dey DDepartment of Imaging (Division of Nuclear Medicine), Medicine, and Biomedical Sciences, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California.
Berman DSDepartment of Imaging (Division of Nuclear Medicine), Medicine, and Biomedical Sciences, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California.
Slomka PJDepartment of Imaging (Division of Nuclear Medicine), Medicine, and Biomedical Sciences, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California. Electronic address: piotr.slomka@cshs.org.
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OBJECTIVES The study evaluated the automatic prediction of obstructive disease from myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) by deep learning as compared with total perfusion deficit (TPD).
BACKGROUND Deep convolutional neural networks trained with a large multicenter population may provide improved prediction of per-patient and per-vessel coronary artery disease from single-photon emission computed tomography MPI.
METHODS A total of 1,638 patients (67% men) without known coronary artery disease, undergoing stress 99mTc-sestamibi or tetrofosmin MPI with new generation solid-state scanners in 9 different sites, with invasive coronary angiography performed within 6 months of MPI, were studied. Obstructive disease was defined as ≥70% narrowing of coronary arteries (≥50% for left main artery). Left ventricular myocardium was segmented using clinical nuclear cardiology software and verified by an expert reader. Stress TPD was computed using sex- and camera-specific normal limits. Deep learning was trained using raw and quantitative polar maps and evaluated for prediction of obstructive stenosis in a stratified 10-fold cross-validation procedure.
RESULTS A total of 1,018 (62%) patients and 1,797 of 4,914 (37%) arteries had obstructive disease. Area under the receiver-operating characteristic curve for disease prediction by deep learning was higher than for TPD (per patient: 0.80 vs. 0.78; per vessel: 0.76 vs. 0.73: p < 0.01). With deep learning threshold set to the same specificity as TPD, per-patient sensitivity improved from 79.8% (TPD) to 82.3% (deep learning) (p < 0.05), and per-vessel sensitivity improved from 64.4% (TPD) to 69.8% (deep learning) (p < 0.01).
CONCLUSIONS Deep learning has the potential to improve automatic interpretation of MPI as compared with current clinical methods.