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ArticleJournal of imaging informatics in medicine2025

Automated Neural Architecture Search for Cardiac Amyloidosis Classification from [18F]-Florbetaben PET Images.

Filippo Bargagna, Donato Zigrino, Lisa Anita De Santi, Dario Genovesi, Michele Scipioni, Brunella Favilli, Giuseppe Vergaro, Michele Emdin, Assuero Giorgetti, Vincenzo Positano and 1 more

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Article in Journal of imaging informatics in medicine, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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  3. Cardiac amyloidosis: Innovations in diagnosis and treatment.European heart journal supplements : journal of the European Society of Cardiology · 2025
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11 authors.

Filippo Bargagna *Department of Information Engineering, University of Pisa, Via G. Caruso 16, 56122, Pisa, Italy. filippo.bargagna@phd.unipi.it.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0006-6403-0585
Donato Zigrino *Department of Information Engineering, University of Pisa, Via G. Caruso 16, 56122, Pisa, Italy.
Lisa Anita De SantiDepartment of Information Engineering, University of Pisa, Via G. Caruso 16, 56122, Pisa, Italy.
Dario GenovesiNuclear Medicine Unit, Fondazione Toscana G Monasterio, Via Giuseppe Moruzzi, 56124, Pisa, Italy.
Michele ScipioniAthinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Brunella FavilliNuclear Medicine Unit, Fondazione Toscana G Monasterio, Via Giuseppe Moruzzi, 56124, Pisa, Italy.
Giuseppe VergaroDivision of Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Fondazione Toscana G Monasterio, Via Giuseppe Moruzzi, 56124, Pisa, Italy.
Michele EmdinDivision of Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Fondazione Toscana G Monasterio, Via Giuseppe Moruzzi, 56124, Pisa, Italy.
Assuero GiorgettiNuclear Medicine Unit, Fondazione Toscana G Monasterio, Via Giuseppe Moruzzi, 56124, Pisa, Italy.
Vincenzo PositanoBioengineering Unit, Fondazione Toscana G Monasterio, Via Giuseppe Moruzzi, 56124, Pisa, Italy.
Maria Filomena SantarelliBioengineering Unit, Fondazione Toscana G Monasterio, Via Giuseppe Moruzzi, 56124, Pisa, Italy.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Medical image classification using convolutional neural networks (CNNs) is promising but often requires extensive manual tuning for optimal model definition. Neural architecture search (NAS) automates this process, reducing human intervention significantly. This study applies NAS to [18F]-Florbetaben PET cardiac images for classifying cardiac amyloidosis (CA) sub-types (amyloid light chain (AL) and transthyretin amyloid (ATTR)) and controls. Following data preprocessing and augmentation, an evolutionary cell-based NAS approach with a fixed network macro-structure is employed, automatically deriving cells' micro-structure. The algorithm is executed five times, evaluating 100 mutating architectures per run on an augmented dataset of 4048 images (originally 597), totaling 5000 architectures evaluated. The best network (NAS-Net) achieves 76.95% overall accuracy. K-fold analysis yields mean ± SD percentages of sensitivity, specificity, and accuracy on the test dataset: AL subjects (98.7 ± 2.9, 99.3 ± 1.1, 99.7 ± 0.7), ATTR-CA subjects (93.3 ± 7.8, 78.0 ± 2.9, 70.9 ± 3.7), and controls (35.8 ± 14.6, 77.1 ± 2.0, 96.7 ± 4.4). NAS-derived network performance rivals manually determined networks in the literature while using fewer parameters, validating its automatic approach's efficacy.

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AmyloidosisAniline CompoundsNeural Networks, ComputerPositron-Emission TomographyStilbenesAgedAlgorithmsFemaleHumansMaleRadiopharmaceuticals4-(N-methylamino)-4'-(2-(2-(2-fluoroethoxy)ethoxy)ethoxy)stilbeneAniline CompoundsRadiopharmaceuticalsStilbenes[18-F]-FlorbetabenAutoMLCardiac amyloidosisNeural architecture searchNuclear medicine

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PMCPMC12092313

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