How well the heart is functioning can be quantified through measurements of myocardial deformation via echocardiography. Clinical assessment of cardiac function is generally focused on global indices of relative shortening; however, segmental strain indices have been shown to be abnormal in regions of myocardial disease such as scarring. In this work, we propose a single framework to predict myocardial scars at global, territorial, and segmental levels using regional myocardial strain traces as input to a convolutional neural network (CNN). An anatomically meaningful representation of the input data from the clinically standard bullseye representation to a multi-channel 2D image is proposed, thus enabling the use of state-of-the-art neural network configurations. A Fully Convolutional Network (FCN) is trained to detect and localize myocardial scar from regional left ventricular (LV) strain traces. Simulated regional strain data from a controlled dataset of virtual patients with varying degrees and locations of myocardial scar is used for training and validation. The proposed method successfully detects and localizes the scars on 98% of the 5490 left ventricle (LV) segments of the 305 patients in the test set using strain traces only. Due to the sparse existence of scar in the dataset, only 10% of the LV segments are scarred. Taking the imbalance into account, the class balanced accuracy is calculated as 95%. The proposed method proves successful on the strain traces of the virtual cohort and offers the potential to solve the regional myocardial scar detection problem on the strain traces of the real patient cohorts.
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