Abstract
AbstractHeart failure caused by iron deposits in the myocardium is the primary cause of mortality in beta-thalassemia major patients. Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMRI) T2* is the primary screening technique used to detect myocardial iron overload, but inherently bears some limitations. In this study, we aimed to differentiate beta-thalassemia major patients with myocardial iron overload from those without myocardial iron overload (detected by T2*CMRI) based on radiomic features extracted from echocardiography images and machine learning (ML) in patients with normal left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF > 55%) in echocardiography. Out of 91 cases, 44 patients with thalassemia major with normal LVEF (> 55%) and T2* ≤ 20 ms and 47 people with LVEF > 55% and T2* > 20 ms as the control group were included in the study. Radiomic features were extracted for each end-systolic (ES) and end-diastolic (ED) image. Then, three feature selection (FS) methods and six different classifiers were used. The models were evaluated using various metrics, including the area under the ROC curve (AUC), accuracy (ACC), sensitivity (SEN), and specificity (SPE). Maximum relevance-minimum redundancy-eXtreme gradient boosting (MRMR-XGB) (AUC = 0.73, ACC = 0.73, SPE = 0.73, SEN = 0.73), ANOVA-MLP (AUC = 0.69, ACC = 0.69, SPE = 0.56, SEN = 0.83), and recursive feature elimination-K-nearest neighbors (RFE-KNN) (AUC = 0.65, ACC = 0.65, SPE = 0.64, SEN = 0.65) were the best models in ED, ES, and ED&ES datasets. Using radiomic features extracted from echocardiographic images and ML, it is feasible to predict cardiac problems caused by iron overload.
Funder
Iran University of Medical Sciences
University of Geneva
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Subject
Computer Science Applications,Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging,Radiological and Ultrasound Technology
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