ME-GraphSAGE: Minority Class Feature Enhanced GraphSAGE for Automatic Labeling of Coronary Arteries

Yang Ding, Tianyu Fu*, Sigeng Chen, Deqiang Xiao, Jingfan Fan, Hong Song, Yang Yu, Jian Yang

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Abstract

Automatic labeling of coronary artery segments improves efficiency in the diagnosis and treatment of coronary artery disease, but faces challenges due to the class imbalance between main and side branches. State-of-the-art methods primarily focus on position-direction and pixel features, which leads to suboptimal performance when dealing with bifurcated segments. In this paper, we propose a minority class feature enhanced GraphSAGE (ME-GraphSAGE), which alleviates class imbalance by generating minority class nodes. We extract bifurcation features from Digital Subtraction Angiography (DSA) images taken from four commonly observed views of coronary arteries. These features, along with other relevant ones, are fed into ME-GraphSAGE to enhance the accuracy of segment labeling in bifurcated regions. By combining the results from the four views, a higher-level sixteen-segment-based coronary labeling is obtained. Our method is evaluated on a dataset of 205 coronary DSA sequences. The experimental results show that ME-GraphSAGE significantly outperforms state-of-the-art methods in labeling coronary artery branches.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationImage and Graphics Technologies and Applications - 18th Chinese Conference, IGTA 2023, Revised Selected Papers
EditorsWang Yongtian, Wu Lifang
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages440-455
Number of pages16
ISBN (Print)9789819975488
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2023
Event18th Chinese Conference on Image and Graphics Technology and Application Conference, IGTA 2023 - Beijing, China
Duration: 17 Aug 202319 Aug 2023

Publication series

NameCommunications in Computer and Information Science
Volume1910 CCIS
ISSN (Print)1865-0929
ISSN (Electronic)1865-0937

Conference

Conference18th Chinese Conference on Image and Graphics Technology and Application Conference, IGTA 2023
Country/TerritoryChina
CityBeijing
Period17/08/2319/08/23

Keywords

  • DSA
  • bifurcation features
  • coronary artery labeling
  • minority class feature enhanced GraphSAGE

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