LT-YOLO: long-term temporal enhanced YOLO for stenosis detection on invasive coronary angiography
Coronary artery stenosis detection by invasive coronary angiography plays a pivotal role in computer-aided diagnosis and treatment. However, it faces the challenge of stenotic morphology confusion stemming from coronary-background similarity, varied morphology, and small-area stenoses. Furthermore,...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2025-04-01
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| Series: | Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences |
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| Online Access: | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmolb.2025.1558495/full |
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| Summary: | Coronary artery stenosis detection by invasive coronary angiography plays a pivotal role in computer-aided diagnosis and treatment. However, it faces the challenge of stenotic morphology confusion stemming from coronary-background similarity, varied morphology, and small-area stenoses. Furthermore, existing automated methods ignore long-temporal information mining. To address these limitations, this paper proposes a long-term temporal enhanced You Only Look Once (YOLO) method for automatic stenosis detection and assessment in invasive coronary angiography. Our approach integrates long-term temporal information and spatial information for stenosis detection with state-space models and YOLOv8. First, a spatial-aware backbone based on a dynamic Transformer and C2f Convolution of YOLOv8 combines the local and global feature extraction to distinguish the coronary regions from the background. Second, a spatial–temporal multi-level fusion neck integrates the long-term temporal and spatial features to handle varied stenotic morphology. Third, a detail-aware detection head leverages low-level information for accurate identification of small stenoses. Extensive experiments on 350 invasive coronary angiography (ICA) video sequences demonstrate the model’s superior performance over seven state-of-the-art methods, particularly in detecting small stenoses (<50%), which were previously underexplored. |
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| ISSN: | 2296-889X |