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ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Development of the vascular condition classifier using supervised machine learning methods
1 Vladimir Zelman Center for Neurobiology and Neurorehabilitation Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Moscow
2 Artificial Intelligence Center Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Moscow
3 Center for Photonics and Photonic Technologies Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Moscow
4 Center for Molecular and Cellular Biology Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Moscow
Correspondence should be addressed: Zlata Besedovskaia
Bolshoy Bulvar, 30, Building 1, Moscow, 121205; moc.liamg@dlogantari
Acknowledgments: All authors of this article express their gratitude to the authors of article [15] for providing the open data used in this study.
Author contribution: Z. Besedovskaya — development of the pipeline and clustering tools, image preparation for publication, and draft publication. A. Korobov — creation and integration of new vessel segment features into the pipeline and draft publication. N. Kudryashova — medical conceptualization and validation of the vessel segment features and draft publication. All authors contributed equally to this study.
Quantitative processing of optoacoustic angiograms is an important task, the solution of which will potentially enable the early diagnosis of vascular diseases. The aim of this study is to refine and conduct biomedical validation of a software tool for the analysis of optoacoustic angiograms, focusing on the application of machine learning methods. The work was conducted on an open dataset containing three-dimensional optoacoustic angiograms of an experimental animal (mouse) in three temperature conditions: cold temperature (16 °C), room temperature (23 °C), and body temperature (30 °C), as well as a dataset with basic vascular features obtained by processing using Amira/Avizo (Thermo Fisher Scientific), a general-purpose software for visualization and analysis of scientific and industrial data. Various vascular features missing from previous work were developed and calculated, after which basic methods of unsupervised/supervised clustering and supervised classification were applied to determine different temperature conditions of vessel segments. Supervised classification methods demonstrated high overall accuracy: CatBoost — 98.9%, SGDClassifier — 95.7%, and logistic regression — 99.7%. The results are consistent with existing descriptions of vascular changes during temperature tests. The applied methodology is universal, meaning with minor modifications it can be adapted to patients. Therefore, the results of this study may potentially improve the diagnosis of vascular pathologies.
Keywords: classification, ptoacoustics, clustering of vascular changes, vasodilation, vasoconstriction, angiography, photoacoustics, vessels, vascular features