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Area of Science:

  • Cardiovascular physiology and biomedical engineering.
  • Application of artificial intelligence in medical diagnostics.

Background:

  • Arterial stiffness is a key indicator of cardiovascular disease risk.
  • Current methods for assessing arterial stiffness, like pulse wave velocity (PWV), primarily use peripheral pressure signals.
  • Assessing arterial stiffness via the pressure-strain hysteresis loop offers a more comprehensive analysis.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To explore the capability of generative adversarial networks (GANs) in transferring peripheral arterial pressure signals to central arterial pressure and area signals.
  • To reconstruct and evaluate the pressure-strain hysteresis loop for arterial stiffness assessment using deep learning.
  • To compare the performance of different GAN loss functions, specifically Least-Square GAN (LSGAN) and Wasserstein GAN with gradient penalty (WGAN-GP).

Main Methods:

  • Utilized a public, validated virtual database of arterial signals.
  • Employed deep learning models, specifically GANs (LSGAN and WGAN-GP), for signal transfer and reconstruction.
  • Reconstructed the pressure-strain hysteresis loop from peripheral signals.
  • Evaluated the reconstructed loop using machine learning metrics and clinical parameters.

Main Results:

  • LSGAN demonstrated superior performance compared to WGAN-GP in reconstructing central arterial pressure and area waveforms.
  • LSGAN achieved a mean error of 0.8 ± 0.4 mmHg for pressure waveforms and 0.1 ± 0.1 cm² for area waveforms.
  • The pressure-strain elastic modulus was estimated with a mean absolute percentage error of 6.5 ± 5.1% using LSGAN.

Conclusions:

  • GAN-based deep learning models can effectively recover the pressure-strain loop characteristics of central arteries by analyzing peripheral pressure signals.
  • This methodology provides a promising non-invasive approach for assessing arterial stiffness and cardiovascular health.
  • The findings suggest LSGAN is a suitable model for this complex signal transfer and reconstruction task in cardiovascular analysis.