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Title | ||
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Fully Convolutional Networks for Automated Segmentation of Abdominal Adipose Tissue Depots in Multicenter Water-Fat MRI. |
Abstract | ||
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Purpose: An approach for the automated segmentation of visceral adipose tissue (VAT) and subcutaneous adipose tissue (SAT) in multicenter waterfat MRI scans of the abdomen was investigated, using 2 different neural network architectures. Methods: The 2 fully convolutional network architectures U-Net and V-Net were trained, evaluated, and compared using the waterfat MRI data. Data of the study Tellus with 90 scans from a single center was used for a 10-fold cross-validation in which the most successful configuration for both networks was determined. These configurations were then tested on 20 scans of the multicenter study beta-cell function in JUvenile Diabetes and Obesity (BetaJudo), which involved a different study population and scanning device. Results: The U-Net outperformed the used implementation of the V-Net in both cross-validation and testing. In cross-validation, the U-Net reached average dice scores of 0.988 (VAT) and 0.992 (SAT). The average of the absolute quantification errors amount to 0.67% (VAT) and 0.39% (SAT). On the multicenter test data, the U-Net performs only slightly worse, with average dice scores of 0.970 (VAT) and 0.987 (SAT) and quantification errors of 2.80% (VAT) and 1.65% (SAT). Conclusion: The segmentations generated by the U-Net allow for reliable quantification and could therefore be viable for high-quality automated measurements of VAT and SAT in large-scale studies with minimal need for human intervention. The high performance on the multicenter test data furthermore shows the robustness of this approach for data of different patient demographics and imaging centers, as long as a consistent imaging protocol is used. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2018 | 10.1002/mrm.27550 | MAGNETIC RESONANCE IN MEDICINE |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
abdominal,adipose tissue,deep learning,fully convolutional networks,segmentation,water-fat MRI | Anatomy,Subcutaneous adipose tissue,Segmentation,Abdomen,Chemistry,Adipose tissue,Nuclear magnetic resonance | Journal |
Volume | Issue | ISSN |
81.0 | 4.0 | 0740-3194 |
Citations | PageRank | References |
1 | 0.36 | 5 |
Authors | ||
8 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Taro Langner | 1 | 1 | 1.03 |
| Anders Hedström | 2 | 1 | 0.36 |
| Håkan Ahlström | 3 | 14 | 2.47 |
| Joel Kullberg | 4 | 17 | 3.27 |
| Katharina Paulmichl | 5 | 1 | 0.36 |
| Daniel Weghuber | 6 | 1 | 0.36 |
| Anders Forslund | 7 | 12 | 1.78 |
| Peter Bergsten | 8 | 1 | 0.36 |