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Detection of abdominopelvic lymph nodes in multi-parametric MRI.
Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics : the Official Journal of the Computerized Medical Imaging Society 2024 March 2
Reliable localization of lymph nodes (LNs) in multi-parametric MRI (mpMRI) studies plays a major role in the assessment of lymphadenopathy and staging of metastatic disease. Radiologists routinely measure the nodal size in order to distinguish benign from malignant nodes, which require subsequent cancer staging. However, identification of lymph nodes is a cumbersome task due to their myriad appearances in mpMRI studies. Multiple sequences are acquired in mpMRI studies, including T2 fat suppressed (T2FS) and diffusion weighted imaging (DWI) sequences among others; consequently, the sizing of LNs is rendered challenging due to the variety of signal intensities in these sequences. Furthermore, radiologists can miss potentially metastatic LNs during a busy clinical day. To lighten these imaging and workflow challenges, we propose a computer-aided detection (CAD) pipeline to detect both benign and malignant LNs in the body for their subsequent measurement. We employed the recently proposed Dynamic Head (DyHead) neural network to detect LNs in mpMRI studies that were acquired using a variety of scanners and exam protocols. The T2FS and DWI series were co-registered, and a selective augmentation technique called Intra-Label LISA (ILL) was used to blend the two volumes with the interpolation factor drawn from a Beta distribution. In this way, ILL diversified the samples that the model encountered during the training phase, while the requirement for both sequences to be present at test time was nullified. Our results showed a mean average precision (mAP) of 53.5% and a sensitivity of ∼78% with ILL at 4 FP/vol. This corresponded to an improvement of ≥10% in mAP and ≥12% in sensitivity at 4FP (p ¡ 0.05) respectively over current LN detection approaches evaluated on the same dataset. We also established the out-of-distribution robustness of the DyHead model by training it on data acquired by a Siemens Aera scanner and testing it on data from the Siemens Verio, Siemens Biograph mMR, and Philips Achieva scanners. Our pilot work represents an important first step towards automated detection, segmentation, and classification of lymph nodes in mpMRI.
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