Yu Qian1,2, Yue Qiu3, Cheng-Cheng Li4, Zhong-Yuan Wang3, Bo-Wen Cao3, Hong-Xin Huang3, Yi-Hong Ni3, Lu-Lu Chen5,6, Jin-Yu Sun7. 1. Department of Neurosurgery, Jiangsu University Affiliated People's Hospital, Zhenjiang, 212002, Jiangsu, China. 2. Department of Neurosurgery, Zhenjiang Clinical Medical College of Nanjing Medical University, Zhenjiang, 212002, Jiangsu, China. 3. The First Clinical Medical College of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, 210029, Jiangsu, China. 4. College of Intelligence and Computing, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300072, China. 5. Department of Anatomy, Histology, and Embryology, Nanjing Medical University Nanjing, Jiangsu, 211166, China. chenlulu@njmu.edu.cn. 6. Key Laboratory for Aging and Disease, Nanjing Medical University Nanjing, Jiangsu, 210029, China. chenlulu@njmu.edu.cn. 7. The First Clinical Medical College of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, 210029, Jiangsu, China. sunjinyu@njmu.edu.cn.
Abstract
PURPOSE: This study was designed to develop a computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) system based on a convolutional neural network (CNN) to diagnose patients with pituitary tumors. METHODS: We included adult patients clinically diagnosed with pituitary adenoma (pituitary adenoma group), or adult individuals without pituitary adenoma (control group). After pre-processing, all the MRI data were randomly divided into training or testing datasets in a ratio of 8:2 to create or evaluate the CNN model. Multiple CNNs with the same structure were applied for different types of MR images respectively, and a comprehensive diagnosis was performed based on the classification results of different types of MR images using an equal-weighted majority voting strategy. Finally, we assessed the diagnostic performance of the CAD system by accuracy, sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, and F1 score. RESULTS: We enrolled 149 participants with 796 MR images and adopted the data augmentation technology to create 7960 new images. The proposed CAD method showed remarkable diagnostic performance with an overall accuracy of 91.02%, sensitivity of 92.27%, specificity of 75.70%, positive predictive value of 93.45%, and F1-score of 92.67% in separate MRI type. In the comprehensive diagnosis, the CAD achieved better performance with accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity of 96.97%, 94.44%, and 100%, respectively. CONCLUSION: The CAD system could accurately diagnose patients with pituitary tumors based on MR images. Further, we will improve this CAD system by augmenting the amount of dataset and evaluate its performance by external dataset.
PURPOSE: This study was designed to develop a computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) system based on a convolutional neural network (CNN) to diagnose patients with pituitary tumors. METHODS: We included adult patients clinically diagnosed with pituitary adenoma (pituitary adenoma group), or adult individuals without pituitary adenoma (control group). After pre-processing, all the MRI data were randomly divided into training or testing datasets in a ratio of 8:2 to create or evaluate the CNN model. Multiple CNNs with the same structure were applied for different types of MR images respectively, and a comprehensive diagnosis was performed based on the classification results of different types of MR images using an equal-weighted majority voting strategy. Finally, we assessed the diagnostic performance of the CAD system by accuracy, sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, and F1 score. RESULTS: We enrolled 149 participants with 796 MR images and adopted the data augmentation technology to create 7960 new images. The proposed CAD method showed remarkable diagnostic performance with an overall accuracy of 91.02%, sensitivity of 92.27%, specificity of 75.70%, positive predictive value of 93.45%, and F1-score of 92.67% in separate MRI type. In the comprehensive diagnosis, the CAD achieved better performance with accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity of 96.97%, 94.44%, and 100%, respectively. CONCLUSION: The CAD system could accurately diagnose patients with pituitary tumors based on MR images. Further, we will improve this CAD system by augmenting the amount of dataset and evaluate its performance by external dataset.
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