ODySSeI: An Open-Source End-to-End Framework for Automated Detection, Segmentation, and Severity Estimation of Lesions in Invasive Coronary Angiography Images

TL;DR

ODySSeI is an open-source, end-to-end deep learning framework that automates detection, segmentation, and severity estimation of coronary lesions in invasive angiography images, improving accuracy and speed for clinical use.

Contribution

The paper introduces ODySSeI, a novel open-source framework with a Pyramidal Augmentation Scheme for robust lesion detection and segmentation, plus a new severity estimation method directly from predicted lesion geometry.

Findings

Significant performance gains with PAS in complex tasks.

High accuracy in lesion severity estimation, within ±2-3 pixels.

Real-time processing speeds on CPU and GPU.

Abstract

Invasive Coronary Angiography (ICA) is the clinical gold standard for the assessment of coronary artery disease. However, its interpretation remains subjective and prone to intra- and inter-operator variability. In this work, we introduce ODySSeI: an Open-source end-to-end framework for automated Detection, Segmentation, and Severity estimation of lesions in ICA images. ODySSeI integrates deep learning-based lesion detection and lesion segmentation models trained using a novel Pyramidal Augmentation Scheme (PAS) to enhance robustness and real-time performance across diverse patient cohorts (2149 patients from Europe, North America, and Asia). Furthermore, we propose a quantitative coronary angiography-free Lesion Severity Estimation (LSE) technique that directly computes the Minimum Lumen Diameter (MLD) and diameter stenosis from the predicted lesion geometry. Extensive evaluation on both in-distribution and out-of-distribution clinical datasets demonstrates ODySSeI's strong generalizability. Our PAS yields large performance gains in highly complex tasks as compared to relatively simpler ones, notably, a 2.5-fold increase in lesion detection performance versus a 1-3\% increase in lesion segmentation performance over their respective baselines. Our LSE technique achieves high accuracy, with predicted MLD values differing by only $\pm$ 2-3 pixels from the corresponding ground truths. On average, ODySSeI processes a raw ICA image within only a few seconds on a CPU and in a fraction of a second on a GPU and is available as a plug-and-play web interface at swisscardia.epfl.ch. Overall, this work establishes ODySSeI as a comprehensive and open-source framework which supports automated, reproducible, and scalable ICA analysis for real-time clinical decision-making.