Precise localization of coronary arteries in Computed Tomography (CT) scans is critical from the perspective of medical assessment of coronary artery disease. Although various methods exist that offer high-quality segmentation of coronary arteries in cardiac contrast-enhanced CT scans, the potential of less invasive, non-contrast CT in this area is still not fully exploited. Since such fine anatomical structures are hardly visible in this type of medical images, the existing methods are characterized by high recall and low precision, and are used mainly for filtering of atherosclerotic plaques in the context of calcium scoring. In this paper, we address this research gap and introduce a deep learning algorithm for segmenting coronary arteries in multi-vendor ECG-gated non-contrast cardiac CT images which benefits from a novel framework for semi-automatic generation of Ground Truth (GT) via image registration. We hypothesize that the proposed GT generation process is much more efficient in this case than manual segmentation, since it allows for a fast generation of large volumes of diverse data, which leads to well-generalizing models. To investigate and thoroughly evaluate the segmentation quality based on such an approach, we propose a novel method for manual mesh-to-image registration, which is used to create our test-GT. The experimental study shows that the trained model has significantly higher accuracy than the GT used for training, and leads to the Dice and clDice metrics close to the interrater variability.
Multivessel Coronary Artery Segmentation and Stenosis Localisation using Ensemble Learning
Birmingham City University（伯明翰城市大学）；University of the West of England (UWE)（西英格兰大学）；Institute of Accounting and Administration, University of Aveiro（阿威罗大学会计与行政学院）；NUS High School of Math and Science（新加坡国立大学数学与科学高中）；Qatar University（卡塔尔大学）；Information Technology University（信息技术大学）；Bristol Heart Institute, University of Bristol（布里斯托大学布里斯托心脏研究所）
Myocardial Segmentation of Cardiac MRI Sequences with Temporal Consistency for Coronary Artery Disease Diagnosis
Guangdong Cardiovascular Institute（广东省心血管病研究所）；Guangdong Provincial People’s Hospital（广东省人民医院）；Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences（广东省医学科学院）；University of Notre Dame（圣母大学）
Myocardial Region-guided Feature Aggregation Net for Automatic Coronary artery Segmentation and Stenosis Assessment using Coronary Computed Tomography Angiography
School of Computer Science and Technology, Zhengzhou University of Light Industry（郑州轻工业大学计算机与通信工程学院）；School of Information Management and Engineering, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics（上海财经大学信息管理与工程学院）；Department of Applied Computing, Michigan Technological University（密歇根理工大学应用计算系）；Health Research Institute, Michigan Technological University（密歇根理工大学健康研究所）；Department of Computer Science, Kennesaw State University（肯尼索州立大学计算机科学系）
Federated Learning for Coronary Artery Plaque Detection in Atherosclerosis Using IVUS Imaging: A Multi-Hospital Collaboration
Research Center for Information Technology Innovation, Academia Sinica（中央研究院资讯科技创新研究中心）；National Taiwan University（台湾大学）；Taipei Veterans General Hospital（台北荣民总医院）；National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University（阳明交通大学）
O2CTA: Introducing Annotations from OCT to CCTA in Coronary Plaque Analysis
Dushu Lake Hospital Affiliated to Soochow University（苏州大学附属独墅湖医院）；Institution for Hypertension of Soochow University（苏州大学高血压研究所）；University of Science and Technology of China（中国科学技术大学）
Machine-Learning Based Detection of Coronary Artery Calcification Using Synthetic Chest X-Rays
School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales（新南威尔士大学计算机科学与工程学院）；School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, University of New South Wales（新南威尔士大学机械与制造工程学院）；Independent Researcher, Sydney, Australia（独立研究者）
Coronary Artery Disease Classification with Different Lesion Degree Ranges based on Deep Learning
University of Málaga（马拉加大学）；Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de Málaga y Plataforma en Nanomedicina-IBIMA Plataforma BIONAND（马拉加生物医学与纳米医学平台研究所-IBIMA BIONAND平台）；Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Cardiovasculares (CIBERCV)（心血管疾病 red 生物医学研究中心（CIBERCV））；Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII)（卡洛斯三世卫生研究所（ISCIII））；Hospital Universitario Virgen de la Victoria（维多利亚圣母大学医院）
GReAT: leveraging geometric artery data to improve wall shear stress assessment
Technical University of Munich（慕尼黑技术大学）；Munich Center for Machine Learning（慕尼黑机器学习中心）；Erasmus Medical Center（埃因霍温医学中心）；University of Twente（埃因霍温大学）；Imperial College London（伦敦帝国理工学院）
A Framework for Cross-Domain Generalization in Coronary Artery Calcium Scoring Across Gated and Non-Gated Computed Tomography
Center for Applied AI, University of Kentucky（应用人工智能中心，肯塔基大学）；EduceLab, University of Kentucky（EduceLab，肯塔基大学）；Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine and the Gill Heart and Vascular Institute, University of Kentucky（医学部，心血管医学分会和吉尔心脏和血管研究所，肯塔基大学）；Department of Radiology, College of Medicine, University of Kentucky（放射学部，医学院，肯塔基大学）
LWT-ARTERY-LABEL: A Lightweight Framework for Automated Coronary Artery Identification
School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, University of New South Wales（机械与制造工程学院，新南威尔士大学）；School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales（计算机科学与工程学院，新南威尔士大学）；Department of Radiology, Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney, Australia（放射科，威尔士王子医院，悉尼，澳大利亚）；School of Medicine, University of New South Wales（医学院，新南威尔士大学）
Direct Quantification for Coronary Artery Stenosis Using Multiview Learning
School of Computer Science and Technology, Anhui University（安徽大学计算机科学与技术学院）；National Heart & Lung Institute, Imperial College London（帝国理工学院国家心肺研究所）；Key Laboratory of Intelligent Computing and Signal Processing, Ministry of Education, Anhui University（安徽大学智能计算与信号处理教育部重点实验室）；Cardiovascular Research Centre, Royal Brompton Hospital（皇家布朗普顿医院心血管研究中心）；School of Biomedical Engineering, Sun Yat-Sen University（中山大学生物医学工程学院）；Western University（韦仕敦大学）
Henan University of Chinese Medicine（河南中医药大学）；Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications（北京邮电大学）；Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院自动化研究所）
3DGR-CAR: Coronary artery reconstruction from ultra-sparse 2D X-ray views with a 3D Gaussians representation
School of Biomedical Engineering, Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC)（中国科学技术大学生命科学与医学部生物医学工程学院）；Center for Medical Imaging, Robotics, Analytic Computing & Learning (MIRACLE), Suzhou Institute for Advance Research, USTC（中国科学技术大学苏州研究院医学影像、机器人、分析计算与学习中心）
Automated Coronary Artery Atherosclerosis Detection and Weakly Supervised Localization on Coronary CT Angiography with a Deep 3-Dimensional Convolutional Neural Network
The Ohio State University College of Medicine（俄亥俄州立大学医学院）
Learning Hemodynamic Scalar Fields on Coronary Artery Meshes: A Benchmark of Geometric Deep Learning Models
Politecnico di Milano（米兰理工大学）；University of Twente（特文特大学）；Centro Cardiologico Monzino IRCCS（蒙齐诺心脏中心IRCCS）；University of Milan（米兰大学）；Amsterdam UMC（阿姆斯特丹大学医学中心）；University of Amsterdam（阿姆斯特丹大学）
Combined analysis of coronary arteries and the left ventricular myocardium in cardiac CT angiography for detection of patients with functionally significant stenosis
Image Sciences Institute, University Medical Center Utrecht（乌得勒支大学医学中心影像科学研究所）；University Medical Center Utrecht（乌得勒支大学医学中心）；Utrecht University（乌得勒支大学）；Amsterdam University Medical Center（阿姆斯特丹大学医学中心）
A Deep Learning Model for Coronary Artery Segmentation and Quantitative Stenosis Detection in Angiographic Images
School of Mathematical Sciences, Ocean University of China（中国海洋大学数学科学学院）；School of Haide, Ocean University of China（中国海洋大学海德学院）；School of Ocean and Atmosphere, Ocean University of China（中国海洋大学海洋与大气学院）；Qilu Hospital (Qingdao), Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University（山东大学齐鲁医院（青岛））
Cross-Task Data Augmentation by Pseudo-label Generation for Region Based Coronary Artery Instance Segmentation
Nepal Applied Mathematics and Informatics Institute for research(NAAMII)（尼泊尔应用数学与信息学研究所）；Fogsphere(Redev AI Ltd.)（Fogsphere（Redev AI有限公司））；University of Lausanne（洛桑大学）；School of Natural and Computing Sciences, University of Aberdeen（阿伯丁大学自然与计算科学学院）
Coronary Artery Segmentation in Angiographic Videos Using A 3D-2D CE-Net
Tsinghua University（清华大学）；Beijing Anzhen Hospital, Capital Medical University（首都医科大学附属北京安贞医院）；The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University（郑州大学第一附属医院）
ImageCAS: A Large-Scale Dataset and Benchmark for Coronary Artery Segmentation based on Computed Tomography Angiography Images
Guangdong University of Technology（广东工业大学）；Guangdong Provincial People’s Hospital (Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences)（广东省人民医院（广东省医学科学院））；Southern Medical University（南方医科大学）；Missouri University of Science and Technology（密苏里科技大学）
A topology-preserving three-stage framework for fully-connected coronary artery extraction
Center for Digital Media Computing, School of Film, School of Informatics, Xiamen University（厦门大学电影学院、信息学院数字媒体计算中心）；Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Xiamen University（厦门大学人工智能研究院）；Peking Union Medical College Hospital（北京协和医院）；Shanghai United Imaging Intelligence Co., Ltd.（上海联影智能医疗科技有限公司）；City University of Hong Kong（香港城市大学）；Shanghai Clinical Research and Trial Center（上海临床研究与试验中心）
DeepCA: Deep Learning-based 3D Coronary Artery Tree Reconstruction from Two 2D Non-simultaneous X-ray Angiography Projections
University of Oxford（牛津大学）；Institute of Biomedical Engineering（生物医学工程研究所）；Division of Cardiovascular Medicine（心血管医学部）；Radcliffe Department of Medicine（拉德克利夫医学系）；Oxford Acute Vascular Imaging Centre（牛津急性血管成像中心）
CADICA: a new dataset for coronary artery disease detection by using invasive coronary angiography
University of Málaga（马拉加大学）；Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de Málaga y Plataforma en Nanomedicina-IBIMA Plataforma BIONAND（马拉加生物医学与纳米医学平台研究所-IBIMA BIONAND平台）；Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Cardiovasculares (CIBERCV)（心血管疾病网络生物医学研究中心）；Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII)（卡洛斯三世卫生研究所）
Automated Deep Learning Analysis of Angiography Video Sequences for Coronary Artery Disease
Bioinformatics Institute, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)（新加坡科技研究局生物信息学研究所）；Hwa Chong Institution (College)（华侨中学（高中部））；National Heart Centre Singapore（新加坡国家心脏中心）；Duke-NUS Medical School（杜克-新加坡国立大学医学院）；School of Computing, National University of Singapore（新加坡国立大学计算学院）；Singapore Eye Research Institute (SERI)（新加坡眼科研究所）；Rehabilitation Research Institute of Singapore（新加坡康复研究所）；Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, A*STAR（新加坡科技研究局生物工程与纳米技术研究所）
Deep learning analysis of coronary arteries in cardiac CT angiography for detection of patients requiring invasive coronary angiography
Image Sciences Institute, University Medical Center Utrecht（乌得勒支大学医学中心影像科学研究所）；University Medical Center Utrecht（乌得勒支大学医学中心）；Amsterdam University Medical Center（阿姆斯特丹大学医学中心）；Utrecht University（乌得勒支大学）
Unleashing Vision Foundation Models for Coronary Artery Segmentation: Parallel ViT-CNN Encoding and Variational Fusion
National-Local Joint Engineering Research Center of Biodiagnosis \& Biotherapy, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, 710004, China Institute of Medical Artificial Intelligence, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, 710004, China Viadrina European University, Frankfurt (Oder), 15230, Germany
