Multichannel three-dimensional fully convolutional residual network-based focal liver lesion detection and classification in Gd-EOB-DTPA-enhanced MRI.

Tomomi Takenaga, Shouhei Hanaoka, Yukihiro Nomura, Takahiro Nakao, Hisaichi Shibata, Soichiro Miki, Takeharu Yoshikawa, Naoto Hayashi, Osamu Abe

International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery 2021 Sep

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Gadolinium ethoxybenzyl diethylenetriamine pentaacetic acid (Gd-EOB-DTPA)-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has high diagnostic accuracy in the detection of liver lesions. There is a demand for computer-aided detection/diagnosis software for Gd-EOB-DTPA-enhanced MRI. We propose a deep learning-based method using one three-dimensional fully convolutional residual network (3D FC-ResNet) for liver segmentation and another 3D FC-ResNet for simultaneous detection and classification of a focal liver lesion in Gd-EOB-DTPA-enhanced MRI. We prepared a five-phase (unenhanced, arterial, portal venous, equilibrium, and hepatobiliary phases) series as the input image sets and labeled focal liver lesion (hepatocellular carcinoma, metastasis, hemangiomas, cysts, and scars) images as the output image sets. We used 100 cases to train our model, 42 cases to determine the hyperparameters of our model, and 42 cases to evaluate our model. We evaluated our model by free-response receiver operating characteristic curve analysis and using a confusion matrix. Our model simultaneously detected and classified focal liver lesions. In the test cases, the detection accuracy for whole focal liver lesions had a true-positive ratio of 0.6 at an average of 25 false positives per case. The classification accuracy was 0.790. We proposed the simultaneous detection and classification of a focal liver lesion in Gd-EOB-DTPA-enhanced MRI using multichannel 3D FC-ResNet. Our results indicated simultaneous detection and classification are possible using a single network. It is necessary to further improve detection sensitivity to help radiologists. © 2021. CARS.

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Tomomi Takenaga, Shouhei Hanaoka, Yukihiro Nomura, Takahiro Nakao, Hisaichi Shibata, Soichiro Miki, Takeharu Yoshikawa, Naoto Hayashi, Osamu Abe. Multichannel three-dimensional fully convolutional residual network-based focal liver lesion detection and classification in Gd-EOB-DTPA-enhanced MRI. International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery. 2021 Sep;16(9):1527-1536