1. MRI-Based End-To-End Pediatric Low-Grade Glioma Segmentation and Classification.
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Vafaeikia, Partoo, Wagner, Matthias W., Hawkins, Cynthia, Tabori, Uri, Ertl-Wagner, Birgit B., and Khalvati, Farzad
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DEEP learning , *CONFIDENCE intervals , *MAGNETIC resonance imaging , *GLIOMAS , *TUMORS in children , *RADIOMICS , *COMPARATIVE studies , *GENETIC markers , *TRANSFERASES , *RESEARCH funding , *PREDICTION models , *RECEIVER operating characteristic curves , *TUMOR grading - Abstract
Purpose: MRI-based radiomics models can predict genetic markers in pediatric low-grade glioma (pLGG). These models usually require tumour segmentation, which is tedious and time consuming if done manually. We propose a deep learning (DL) model to automate tumour segmentation and build an end-to-end radiomics-based pipeline for pLGG classification. Methods: The proposed architecture is a 2-step U-Net based DL network. The first U-Net is trained on downsampled images to locate the tumour. The second U-Net is trained using image patches centred around the located tumour to produce more refined segmentations. The segmented tumour is then fed into a radiomics-based model to predict the genetic marker of the tumour. Results: Our segmentation model achieved a correlation value of over 80% for all volume-related radiomic features and an average Dice score of.795 in test cases. Feeding the auto-segmentation results into a radiomics model resulted in a mean area under the ROC curve (AUC) of.843, with 95% confidence interval (CI) [.78-.906] and.730, with 95% CI [.671-.789] on the test set for 2-class (BRAF V600E mutation BRAF fusion) and 3-class (BRAF V600E mutation BRAF fusion and Other) classification, respectively. This result was comparable to the AUC of.874, 95% CI [.829-.919] and.758, 95% CI [.724-.792] for the radiomics model trained and tested on the manual segmentations in 2-class and 3-class classification scenarios, respectively. Conclusion: The proposed end-to-end pipeline for pLGG segmentation and classification produced results comparable to manual segmentation when it was used for a radiomics-based genetic marker prediction model. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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