Morphology-aware multi-source fusion-based intracranial aneurysms rupture prediction

作者:Ou, Chubin; Li, Caizi; Qian, Yi*; Duan, Chuan-Zhi*; Si, Weixin*; Zhang, Xin; Li, Xifeng; Morgan, Michael; Dou, Qi; Heng, Pheng-Ann
来源:European Radiology, 2022, 32(8): 5633-5641.
DOI:10.1007/s00330-022-08608-7

摘要

Objectives We proposed a new approach to train deep learning model for aneurysm rupture prediction which only uses a limited amount of labeled data. Method Using segmented aneurysm mask as input, a backbone model was pretrained using a self-supervised method to learn deep embeddings of aneurysm morphology from 947 unlabeled cases of angiographic images. Subsequently, the backbone model was finetuned using 120 labeled cases with known rupture status. Clinical information was integrated with deep embeddings to further improve prediction performance. The proposed model was compared with radiomics and conventional morphology models in prediction performance. An assistive diagnosis system was also developed based on the model and was tested with five neurosurgeons. Result Our method achieved an area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) of 0.823, outperforming deep learning model trained from scratch (0.787). By integrating with clinical information, the proposed model's performance was further improved to AUC = 0.853, making the results significantly better than model based on radiomics (AUC = 0.805, p = 0.007) or model based on conventional morphology parameters (AUC = 0.766, p = 0.001). Our model also achieved the highest sensitivity, PPV, NPV, and accuracy among the others. Neurosurgeons' prediction performance was improved from AUC=0.877 to 0.945 (p = 0.037) with the assistive diagnosis system. Conclusion Our proposed method could develop competitive deep learning model for rupture prediction using only a limited amount of data. The assistive diagnosis system could be useful for neurosurgeons to predict rupture.

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    中国科学院; y; 南方医科大学