STAR-Echo: A Novel Biomarker for Prognosis of MACE in Chronic Kidney Disease Patients Using Spatiotemporal Analysis and Transformer-Based Radiomics Models

Rohan Dhamdhere, Gourav Modanwal, Mohamed H.E. Makhlouf, Neda Shafiabadi Hassani, Satvika Bharadwaj, Pingfu Fu, Ioannis Milioglou, Mahboob Rahman, Sadeer Al-Kindi, Anant Madabhushi

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Abstract

Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) patients are at higher risk of Major Adverse Cardiovascular Events (MACE). Echocardiography evaluates left ventricle (LV) function and heart abnormalities. LV Wall (LVW) pathophysiology and systolic/diastolic dysfunction are linked to MACE outcomes (O- and O+ ) in CKD patients. However, traditional LV volume-based measurements like ejection-fraction offer limited predictive value as they rely only on end-phase frames. We hypothesize that analyzing LVW morphology over time, through spatiotemporal analysis, can predict MACE risk in CKD patients. However, accurately delineating and analyzing LVW at every frame is challenging due to noise, poor resolution, and the need for manual intervention. Our contribution includes (a) developing an automated pipeline for identifying and standardizing heart-beat cycles and segmenting the LVW, (b) introducing a novel computational biomarker—STAR-Echo—which combines spatiotemporal risk from radiomic (MR ) and deep learning (MT ) models to predict MACE prognosis in CKD patients, and (c) demonstrating the superior prognostic performance of STAR-Echo compared to MR, MT, as well as clinical-biomarkers (EF, BNP, and NT-proBNP) for characterizing cardiac dysfunction. STAR-Echo captured the gray level intensity distribution, perimeter and sphericity of the LVW that changes differently over time in individuals who encounter MACE outcomes. STAR-Echo achieved an AUC of 0.71 [ 0.53 - 0.89 ] for MACE outcome classification and also demonstrated prognostic ability in Kaplan-Meier survival analysis on a holdout cohort (Sv= 44 ) of CKD patients (N= 150 ). It achieved superior MACE prognostication (p-value = 0.037 (log-rank test)), compared to MR (p-value = 0.042), MT (p-value = 0.069), clinical biomarkers—EF, BNP, and NT-proBNP (p-value >0.05).

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationMedical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2023 - 26th International Conference, Proceedings
EditorsHayit Greenspan, Hayit Greenspan, Anant Madabhushi, Parvin Mousavi, Septimiu Salcudean, James Duncan, Tanveer Syeda-Mahmood, Russell Taylor
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages284-294
Number of pages11
ISBN (Print)9783031439865
DOIs
StatePublished - 2023
Event26th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2023 - Vancouver, Canada
Duration: Oct 8 2023Oct 12 2023

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume14225 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference26th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2023
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityVancouver
Period10/8/2310/12/23

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Computer Science(all)

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