Hinrich B Winther1, Marcel Gutberlet1, Christian Hundt2, Till F Kaireit1, Tawfik Moher Alsady1, Bertil Schmidt3, Frank Wacker1,4, Yanping Sun5, Sabine Dettmer1,4, Sabine K Maschke1, Jan B Hinrichs1, Sachin Jambawalikar6, Martin R Prince7, R Graham Barr5, Jens Vogel-Claussen1,4. 1. Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany. 2. NVIDIA AI Technology Center, Luxembourg, Luxembourg. 3. Institute for Computer Science, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany. 4. Biomedical Research in Endstage and Obstructive Lung Disease Hannover (BREATH), Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Hannover, Germany. 5. Department of Medicine, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA. 6. Department of Radiology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York, USA. 7. Cornell Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Imaging Laboratory, Radiology Department, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York, USA.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is associated with high morbidity and mortality. Identification of imaging biomarkers for phenotyping is necessary for future treatment and therapy monitoring. However, translation of visual analytic pipelines into clinics or their use in large-scale studies is significantly slowed by time-consuming postprocessing steps. PURPOSE: To implement an automated tool chain for regional quantification of pulmonary microvascular blood flow in order to reduce analysis time and user variability. STUDY TYPE: Prospective. POPULATION: In all, 90 MRI scans of 63 patients, of which 31 had a COPD with a mean Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease status of 1.9 ± 0.64 (μ ± σ). FIELD STRENGTH/SEQUENCE: 1.5T dynamic gadolinium-enhanced MRI measurement using 4D dynamic contrast material-enhanced (DCE) time-resolved angiography acquired in a single breath-hold in inspiration. [Correction added on August 20, 2019, after first online publication: The field strength in the preceding sentence was corrected.] ASSESSMENT: We built a 3D convolutional neural network for semantic segmentation using 29 manually segmented perfusion maps. All five lobes of the lung are denoted, including the middle lobe. Evaluation was performed on 61 independent cases from two sites of the Multi-Ethnic Study of Arteriosclerosis (MESA)-COPD study. We publish our implementation of a model-free deconvolution filter according to Sourbron et al for 4D DCE MRI scans as open source. STATISTICAL TEST: Cross-validation 29/61 (# training / # testing), intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC), Spearman ρ, Pearson r, Sørensen-Dice coefficient, and overlap. RESULTS: Segmentations and derived clinical parameters were processed in ~90 seconds per case on a Xeon E5-2637v4 workstation with Tesla P40 GPUs. Clinical parameters and predicted segmentations exhibit high concordance with the ground truth regarding median perfusion for all lobes with an ICC of 0.99 and a Sørensen-Dice coefficient of 93.4 ± 2.8 (μ ± σ). DATA CONCLUSION: We present a robust end-to-end pipeline that allows for the extraction of perfusion-based biomarkers for all lung lobes in 4D DCE MRI scans by combining model-free deconvolution with deep learning. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: 3 Technical Efficacy: Stage 2 J. Magn. Reson. Imaging 2020;51:571-579.
BACKGROUND: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is associated with high morbidity and mortality. Identification of imaging biomarkers for phenotyping is necessary for future treatment and therapy monitoring. However, translation of visual analytic pipelines into clinics or their use in large-scale studies is significantly slowed by time-consuming postprocessing steps. PURPOSE: To implement an automated tool chain for regional quantification of pulmonary microvascular blood flow in order to reduce analysis time and user variability. STUDY TYPE: Prospective. POPULATION: In all, 90 MRI scans of 63 patients, of which 31 had a COPD with a mean Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease status of 1.9 ± 0.64 (μ ± σ). FIELD STRENGTH/SEQUENCE: 1.5T dynamic gadolinium-enhanced MRI measurement using 4D dynamic contrast material-enhanced (DCE) time-resolved angiography acquired in a single breath-hold in inspiration. [Correction added on August 20, 2019, after first online publication: The field strength in the preceding sentence was corrected.] ASSESSMENT: We built a 3D convolutional neural network for semantic segmentation using 29 manually segmented perfusion maps. All five lobes of the lung are denoted, including the middle lobe. Evaluation was performed on 61 independent cases from two sites of the Multi-Ethnic Study of Arteriosclerosis (MESA)-COPD study. We publish our implementation of a model-free deconvolution filter according to Sourbron et al for 4D DCE MRI scans as open source. STATISTICAL TEST: Cross-validation 29/61 (# training / # testing), intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC), Spearman ρ, Pearson r, Sørensen-Dice coefficient, and overlap. RESULTS: Segmentations and derived clinical parameters were processed in ~90 seconds per case on a Xeon E5-2637v4 workstation with Tesla P40 GPUs. Clinical parameters and predicted segmentations exhibit high concordance with the ground truth regarding median perfusion for all lobes with an ICC of 0.99 and a Sørensen-Dice coefficient of 93.4 ± 2.8 (μ ± σ). DATA CONCLUSION: We present a robust end-to-end pipeline that allows for the extraction of perfusion-based biomarkers for all lung lobes in 4D DCE MRI scans by combining model-free deconvolution with deep learning. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: 3 Technical Efficacy: Stage 2 J. Magn. Reson. Imaging 2020;51:571-579.
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