Deep learning for staging liver fibrosis on CT: a pilot study.

Objectives: To investigate whether liver fibrosis can be staged by deep learning techniques based on CT images.Methods: This clinical retrospective study, approved by our institutional review board, included 496 CT examinations of 286 patients who underwent dynamic contrast-enhanced CT for evaluatio...

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Publicado en:European Radiology Vol. 28; no. 11; pp. 4578 - 4586
Autores principales: Yasaka, Koichiro, Akai, Hiroyuki, Kunimatsu, Akira, Abe, Osamu, Kiryu, Shigeru
Formato: Journal Article
Publicado: Springer Nature Nov2018
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          Yasaka, Koichiro
          Akai, Hiroyuki
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          Kiryu, Shigeru
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          Tomography, X-Ray Computed Methods
          Liver Cirrhosis Diagnosis
          Image Interpretation, Computer Assisted Methods
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          Retrospective Design
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          ROC Curve
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      ab: Objectives: To investigate whether liver fibrosis can be staged by deep learning techniques based on CT images.Methods: This clinical retrospective study, approved by our institutional review board, included 496 CT examinations of 286 patients who underwent dynamic contrast-enhanced CT for evaluations of the liver and for whom histopathological information regarding liver fibrosis stage was available. The 396 portal phase images with age and sex data of patients (F0/F1/F2/F3/F4 = 113/36/56/66/125) were used for training a deep convolutional neural network (DCNN); the data for the other 100 (F0/F1/F2/F3/F4 = 29/9/14/16/32) were utilised for testing the trained network, with the histopathological fibrosis stage used as reference. To improve robustness, additional images for training data were generated by rotating or parallel shifting the images, or adding Gaussian noise. Supervised training was used to minimise the difference between the liver fibrosis stage and the fibrosis score obtained from deep learning based on CT images (FDLCT score) output by the model. Testing data were input into the trained DCNNs to evaluate their performance.Results: The FDLCT scores showed a significant correlation with liver fibrosis stage (Spearman's correlation coefficient = 0.48, p < 0.001). The areas under the receiver operating characteristic curves (with 95% confidence intervals) for diagnosing significant fibrosis (≥ F2), advanced fibrosis (≥ F3) and cirrhosis (F4) by using FDLCT scores were 0.74 (0.64-0.85), 0.76 (0.66-0.85) and 0.73 (0.62-0.84), respectively.Conclusions: Liver fibrosis can be staged by using a deep learning model based on CT images, with moderate performance.Key Points: • Liver fibrosis can be staged by a deep learning model based on magnified CT images including the liver surface, with moderate performance. • Scores from a trained deep learning model showed moderate correlation with histopathological liver fibrosis staging. • Further improvement are necessary before utilisation in clinical settings.
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