MultiD4CAD: Multimodal Dataset composed of CT and Clinical Features for Coronary Artery Disease Analysis

Abstract

Multimodal datasets offer valuable support for developing Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDSS), which leverage predictive models to enhance clinicians’ decision-making. In this observational study, we present a dataset of suspected Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) patients - called MultiD4CAD - comprising imaging and clinical data. The imaging data obtained from Coronary Computed Tomography Angiography (CCTA) includes epicardial (EAT) and pericoronary (PAT) adipose tissue segmentations. These metabolically active fat tissues play a key role in cardiovascular diseases. In addition, clinical data include a set of biomarkers recognized as CAD risk factors. The validated EAT and PAT segmentations make the dataset suitable for training predictive models based on radiomics and deep learning architectures. The inclusion of CAD disease labels allows for its application in supervised learning algorithms to predict CAD outcomes. MultiD4CAD has revealed important correlations between imaging features, clinical biomarkers, and CAD status. The article concludes by discussing some challenges, such as classification, segmentation, radiomics, and deep training tasks, that can be investigated and validated using the proposed dataset.