Volume 16, Issue 9 e202300059
RESEARCH ARTICLE

Automatic lumen and anatomical layers segmentation in IVOCT images using meta learning

Peiwen Shi

Peiwen Shi

Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China

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Jingmin Xin

Corresponding Author

Jingmin Xin

Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China

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Jingmin Xin, Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, China.

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Shaoyi Du

Shaoyi Du

Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China

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Jiayi Wu

Jiayi Wu

Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China

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Yangyang Deng

Yangyang Deng

Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China

Cardiovascular Department, First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, China

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Zhuotong Cai

Zhuotong Cai

Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China

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Nanning Zheng

Nanning Zheng

Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China

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First published: 08 June 2023
Citations: 1

Abstract

Automated analysis of the vessel structure in intravascular optical coherence tomography (IVOCT) images is critical to assess the health status of vessels and monitor coronary artery disease progression. However, deep learning-based methods usually require well-annotated large datasets, which are difficult to obtain in the field of medical image analysis. Hence, an automatic layers segmentation method based on meta-learning was proposed, which can simultaneously extract the surfaces of the lumen, intima, media, and adventitia using a handful of annotated samples. Specifically, we leverage a bi-level gradient strategy to train a meta-learner for capturing the shared meta-knowledge among different anatomical layers and quickly adapting to unknown anatomical layers. Then, a Claw-type network and a contrast consistency loss were designed to better learn the meta-knowledge according to the characteristic of annotation of the lumen and anatomical layers. Experimental results on the two cardiovascular IVOCT datasets show that the proposed method achieved state-of-art performance.image

CONFLICT OF INTEREST STATEMENT

The authors have stated explicitly that there are no conflicts of interest in connection with this article.

DATA AVAILABILITY STATEMENT

Data underlying the results presented in this paper was not publicly available at this time but may be obtained from the sponsor upon reasonable request.

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