Jiantao Pu1,2, Jacob Sechrist1, Xin Meng1, Joseph K Leader1, Frank C Sciurba3. 1. Department of Radiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. 2. Department of Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. 3. Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Abstract
PURPOSE: The potential to compute volume metrics of emphysema from planar scout images was investigated in this study. The successful implementation of this concept will have a wide impact in different fields, and specifically, maximize the diagnostic potential of the planar medical images. METHODS: We investigated our premise using a well-characterized chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) cohort. In this cohort, planar scout images from computed tomography (CT) scans were used to compute lung volume and percentage of emphysema. Lung volume and percentage of emphysema were quantified on the volumetric CT images and used as the "ground truth" for developing the models to compute the variables from the corresponding scout images. We trained two classical convolutional neural networks (CNNs), including VGG19 and InceptionV3, to compute lung volume and the percentage of emphysema from the scout images. The scout images (n = 1,446) were split into three subgroups: (1) training (n = 1,235), (2) internal validation (n = 99), and (3) independent test (n = 112) at the subject level in a ratio of 8:1:1. The mean absolute difference (MAD) and R-square (R2) were the performance metrics to evaluate the prediction performance of the developed models. RESULTS: The lung volumes and percentages of emphysema computed from a single planar scout image were significantly linear correlated with the measures quantified using volumetric CT images (VGG19: R2 = 0.934 for lung volume and R2 = 0.751 for emphysema percentage, and InceptionV3: R2 = 0.977 for lung volume and R2 = 0.775 for emphysema percentage). The mean absolute differences (MADs) for lung volume and percentage of emphysema were 0.302 ± 0.247L and 2.89 ± 2.58%, respectively, for VGG19, and 0.366 ± 0.287L and 3.19 ± 2.14, respectively, for InceptionV3. CONCLUSIONS: Our promising results demonstrated the feasibility of inferring volume metrics from planar images using CNNs.
PURPOSE: The potential to compute volume metrics of emphysema from planar scout images was investigated in this study. The successful implementation of this concept will have a wide impact in different fields, and specifically, maximize the diagnostic potential of the planar medical images. METHODS: We investigated our premise using a well-characterized chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) cohort. In this cohort, planar scout images from computed tomography (CT) scans were used to compute lung volume and percentage of emphysema. Lung volume and percentage of emphysema were quantified on the volumetric CT images and used as the "ground truth" for developing the models to compute the variables from the corresponding scout images. We trained two classical convolutional neural networks (CNNs), including VGG19 and InceptionV3, to compute lung volume and the percentage of emphysema from the scout images. The scout images (n = 1,446) were split into three subgroups: (1) training (n = 1,235), (2) internal validation (n = 99), and (3) independent test (n = 112) at the subject level in a ratio of 8:1:1. The mean absolute difference (MAD) and R-square (R2) were the performance metrics to evaluate the prediction performance of the developed models. RESULTS: The lung volumes and percentages of emphysema computed from a single planar scout image were significantly linear correlated with the measures quantified using volumetric CT images (VGG19: R2 = 0.934 for lung volume and R2 = 0.751 for emphysema percentage, and InceptionV3: R2 = 0.977 for lung volume and R2 = 0.775 for emphysema percentage). The mean absolute differences (MADs) for lung volume and percentage of emphysema were 0.302 ± 0.247L and 2.89 ± 2.58%, respectively, for VGG19, and 0.366 ± 0.287L and 3.19 ± 2.14, respectively, for InceptionV3. CONCLUSIONS: Our promising results demonstrated the feasibility of inferring volume metrics from planar images using CNNs.
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