Benefit of dual energy CT for lesion localization and classification with convolutional neural networks

Nadav Shapira; Julia Fokuhl; Manuel Schultheiß; Stefanie Beck; Felix K. Kopp; Daniela Pfeiffer; Julia Dangelmaier; Gregor Pahn; Andreas P. Sauter; Bernhard Renger; Alexander A. Fingerle; Andrew D. A. Maidment; Ernst J. Rummeny; Shadi Albarqouni; Nassir Navab; Peter B. Noël

doi:10.1117/12.2549291

16 March 2020 Benefit of dual energy CT for lesion localization and classification with convolutional neural networks

Nadav Shapira, Julia Fokuhl, Manuel Schultheiß, Stefanie Beck, Felix K. Kopp, Daniela Pfeiffer, Julia Dangelmaier, Gregor Pahn, Andreas P. Sauter, Bernhard Renger, Alexander A. Fingerle, Andrew D. A. Maidment, Ernst J. Rummeny, Shadi Albarqouni, Nassir Navab, Peter B. Noël

Author Affiliations +

Proceedings Volume 11312, Medical Imaging 2020: Physics of Medical Imaging; 113121Q (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2549291
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2020, Houston, Texas, United States

Abstract

Dual Energy CT is a modern imaging technique that is utilized in clinical practice to acquire spectral information for various diagnostic purposes including the identification, classification, and characterization of different liver lesions. It provides additional information that, when compared to the information available from conventional CT datasets, has the potential to benefit existing computer vision techniques by improving their accuracy and reliability. In order to evaluate the additional value of spectral versus conventional datasets when being used as input for machine learning algorithms, we implemented a weakly-supervised Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) that learns liver lesion localization and classification without pixel-level ground truth annotations. We evaluated the lesion classification (healthy, cyst, hypodense metastasis) and localization performance of the network for various conventional and spectral input datasets obtained from the same CT scan. The best results for lesion localization were found for the spectral datasets with distances of 8.22 ± 10.72 mm, 8.78 ± 15.21 mm and 8.29 ± 12.97 mm for iodine maps, 40 keV and 70 keV virtual mono-energetic images, respectively, while lesion localization distances of 10.58 ± 17.65 mm were measured for the conventional dataset. In addition, the 40 keV virtual mono-energetic datasets achieved the highest overall lesion classification accuracy of 0.899 compared to 0.854 measured for the conventional datasets. The enhanced localization and classification results that we observed for spectral CT data demonstrates that combining machine-learning technology with spectral CT information may improve the clinical workflow as well as the diagnostic accuracy.

Citation Download Citation

Nadav Shapira, Julia Fokuhl, Manuel Schultheiß, Stefanie Beck, Felix K. Kopp, Daniela Pfeiffer, Julia Dangelmaier, Gregor Pahn, Andreas P. Sauter, Bernhard Renger, Alexander A. Fingerle, Andrew D. A. Maidment, Ernst J. Rummeny, Shadi Albarqouni, Nassir Navab, and Peter B. Noël "Benefit of dual energy CT for lesion localization and classification with convolutional neural networks", Proc. SPIE 11312, Medical Imaging 2020: Physics of Medical Imaging, 113121Q (16 March 2020); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2549291

ACCESS THE FULL ARTICLE

INSTITUTIONAL
Select your institution to access the SPIE Digital Library.

SELECT YOUR INSTITUTION

PERSONAL
Sign in with your SPIE account to access your personal subscriptions or to use specific features such as save to my library, sign up for alerts, save searches, etc.

PERSONAL SIGN IN

No SPIE Account? Create one

PURCHASE THIS CONTENT

SUBSCRIBE TO DIGITAL LIBRARY

50 downloads per 1-year subscription

Members: $195

Non-members: $335 ADD TO CART

25 downloads per 1 - year subscription

Members: $145

Non-members: $250 ADD TO CART

PURCHASE SINGLE ARTICLE

Includes PDF, HTML & Video, when available

Members: $17.00

Non-members: $21.00 ADD TO CART

PROCEEDINGS
7 PAGES

DOWNLOAD PAPER SAVE TO MY LIBRARY

GET CITATION

RIGHTS & PERMISSIONS

Get copyright permission Get copyright permission on Copyright Marketplace

KEYWORDS

Liver

Iodine

Computed tomography

Image segmentation

Convolutional neural networks

Diagnostics

Dual energy imaging

Show All Keywords

Keywords/Phrases

Search In:

Publication Years