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A novel unsupervised machine learning clustering strategy to identify PET/MR biomarkers in arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy

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Title: A novel unsupervised machine learning clustering strategy to identify PET/MR biomarkers in arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy
Authors: Brunnhilde Ponsi, Hatem Necib, Lara Marteau, Aurélien Monnet, Thomas Carlier, Thomas Eugène, Jean-Michel Serfaty, Nicolas Piriou
Source: ISMRM Annual Meeting.
Publisher Information: ISMRM, 2025.
Publication Year: 2025
Description: Motivation: Diagnosing arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy (AC) is challenging without gold-standard criteria. LGE, T1/T2 mappings, and PET imaging offer complementary insights on fibrosis and inflammation. Goal(s): This study aims to demonstrate the potential of simultaneous PET/MR and inter-patient data linkage to discover novel regional markers of AC. Approach: Two-step clustering was applied to multimodal images of AC patients. Supervoxels were extracted from each patient, before being clustered to thirty-two inter-patient groups. Patient's health reports were generated and compared to cardiac imagers' reports using balanced accuracy (BA). Results: Clustering reports accurately represented the proportions of hyper-signal combinations per patient, while identifying most cardiac imagers observations (BA=0.76). Impact: A two-step multimodal PET/MR unsupervised clustering method combining supervoxel extraction and inter-patient clustering was developed, enabling robust identification, visualization, and quantification of abnormal regions in arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy patients. It provides an encouraging step toward identifying prognostic clusters and patient profiles.
Document Type: Article
ISSN: 1545-4428
DOI: 10.58530/2025/1887
Accession Number: edsair.doi...........f1dff4e20783b3e9c3d1821ea5bfa13a
Database: OpenAIRE
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