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Kaifi R. A Review of Recent Advances in Brain Tumor Diagnosis Based on AI-Based Classification. Diagnostics (Basel) 2023; 13:3007. [PMID: 37761373 PMCID: PMC10527911 DOI: 10.3390/diagnostics13183007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2023] [Revised: 09/14/2023] [Accepted: 09/19/2023] [Indexed: 09/29/2023] Open
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Uncontrolled and fast cell proliferation is the cause of brain tumors. Early cancer detection is vitally important to save many lives. Brain tumors can be divided into several categories depending on the kind, place of origin, pace of development, and stage of progression; as a result, tumor classification is crucial for targeted therapy. Brain tumor segmentation aims to delineate accurately the areas of brain tumors. A specialist with a thorough understanding of brain illnesses is needed to manually identify the proper type of brain tumor. Additionally, processing many images takes time and is tiresome. Therefore, automatic segmentation and classification techniques are required to speed up and enhance the diagnosis of brain tumors. Tumors can be quickly and safely detected by brain scans using imaging modalities, including computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and others. Machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) have shown promise in developing algorithms that aid in automatic classification and segmentation utilizing various imaging modalities. The right segmentation method must be used to precisely classify patients with brain tumors to enhance diagnosis and treatment. This review describes multiple types of brain tumors, publicly accessible datasets, enhancement methods, segmentation, feature extraction, classification, machine learning techniques, deep learning, and learning through a transfer to study brain tumors. In this study, we attempted to synthesize brain cancer imaging modalities with automatically computer-assisted methodologies for brain cancer characterization in ML and DL frameworks. Finding the current problems with the engineering methodologies currently in use and predicting a future paradigm are other goals of this article.
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- Reham Kaifi
- Department of Radiological Sciences, College of Applied Medical Sciences, King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Jeddah City 22384, Saudi Arabia;
- King Abdullah International Medical Research Center, Jeddah City 22384, Saudi Arabia
- Medical Imaging Department, Ministry of the National Guard—Health Affairs, Jeddah City 11426, Saudi Arabia
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Investigating the Impact of Two Major Programming Environments on the Accuracy of Deep Learning-Based Glioma Detection from MRI Images. Diagnostics (Basel) 2023; 13:diagnostics13040651. [PMID: 36832138 PMCID: PMC9955350 DOI: 10.3390/diagnostics13040651] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2022] [Revised: 02/04/2023] [Accepted: 02/07/2023] [Indexed: 02/12/2023] Open
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Brain tumors have been the subject of research for many years. Brain tumors are typically classified into two main groups: benign and malignant tumors. The most common tumor type among malignant brain tumors is known as glioma. In the diagnosis of glioma, different imaging technologies could be used. Among these techniques, MRI is the most preferred imaging technology due to its high-resolution image data. However, the detection of gliomas from a huge set of MRI data could be challenging for the practitioners. In order to solve this concern, many Deep Learning (DL) models based on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have been proposed to be used in detecting glioma. However, understanding which CNN architecture would work efficiently under various conditions including development environment or programming aspects as well as performance analysis has not been studied so far. In this research work, therefore, the purpose is to investigate the impact of two major programming environments (namely, MATLAB and Python) on the accuracy of CNN-based glioma detection from Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) images. To this end, experiments on the Brain Tumor Segmentation (BraTS) dataset (2016 and 2017) consisting of multiparametric magnetic MRI images are performed by implementing two popular CNN architectures, the three-dimensional (3D) U-Net and the V-Net in the programming environments. From the results, it is concluded that the use of Python with Google Colaboratory (Colab) might be highly useful in the implementation of CNN-based models for glioma detection. Moreover, the 3D U-Net model is found to perform better, attaining a high accuracy on the dataset. The authors believe that the results achieved from this study would provide useful information to the research community in their appropriate implementation of DL approaches for brain tumor detection.
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Kataria P, Dogra A, Sharma T, Goyal B. Trends in DNN Model Based Classification and Segmentation of Brain Tumor Detection. Open Neuroimag J 2022. [DOI: 10.2174/18744400-v15-e2206290] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Background:
Due to the complexities of scrutinizing and diagnosing brain tumors from MR images, brain tumor analysis has become one of the most indispensable concerns. Characterization of a brain tumor before any treatment, such as radiotherapy, requires decisive treatment planning and accurate implementation. As a result, early detection of brain tumors is imperative for better clinical outcomes and subsequent patient survival.
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Brain tumor segmentation is a crucial task in medical image analysis. Because of tumor heterogeneity and varied intensity patterns, manual segmentation takes a long time, limiting the use of accurate quantitative interventions in clinical practice. Automated computer-based brain tumor image processing has become more valuable with technological advancement. With various imaging and statistical analysis tools, deep learning algorithms offer a viable option to enable health care practitioners to rule out the disease and estimate the growth.
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This article presents a comprehensive evaluation of conventional machine learning models as well as evolving deep learning techniques for brain tumor segmentation and classification.
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In this manuscript, a hierarchical review has been presented for brain tumor segmentation and detection. It is found that the segmentation methods hold a wide margin of improvement in the context of the implementation of adaptive thresholding and segmentation methods, the feature training and mapping requires redundancy correction, the input data training needs to be more exhaustive and the detection algorithms are required to be robust in terms of handling online input data analysis/tumor detection.
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Early Diagnosis of Brain Tumour MRI Images Using Hybrid Techniques between Deep and Machine Learning. COMPUTATIONAL AND MATHEMATICAL METHODS IN MEDICINE 2022; 2022:8330833. [PMID: 35633922 PMCID: PMC9132638 DOI: 10.1155/2022/8330833] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/27/2021] [Revised: 04/15/2022] [Accepted: 04/23/2022] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Cancer is considered one of the most aggressive and destructive diseases that shortens the average lives of patients. Misdiagnosed brain tumours lead to false medical intervention, which reduces patients' chance of survival. Accurate early medical diagnoses of brain tumour are an essential point for starting treatment plans that improve the survival of patients with brain tumours. Computer-aided diagnostic systems have provided consecutive successes for helping medical doctors make accurate diagnoses and have conducted positive strides in the field of deep and machine learning. Deep convolutional layers extract strong distinguishing features from the regions of interest compared with those extracted using traditional methods. In this study, different experiments are performed for brain tumour diagnosis by combining deep learning and traditional machine learning techniques. AlexNet and ResNet-18 are used with the support vector machine (SVM) algorithm for brain tumour classification and diagnosis. Brain tumour magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) images are enhanced using the average filter technique. Then, deep learning techniques are applied to extract robust and important deep features via deep convolutional layers. The process of combining deep and machine learning techniques starts, where features are extracted using deep learning techniques, namely, AlexNet and ResNet-18. These features are then classified using SoftMax and SVM. The MRI dataset contains 3,060 images divided into four classes, which are three tumours and one normal. All systems have achieved superior results. Specifically, the AlexNet+SVM hybrid technique exhibits the best performance, with 95.10% accuracy, 95.25% sensitivity, and 98.50% specificity.
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Wu Y, Guo Y, Ma J, Sa Y, Li Q, Zhang N. Research Progress of Gliomas in Machine Learning. Cells 2021; 10:cells10113169. [PMID: 34831392 PMCID: PMC8622230 DOI: 10.3390/cells10113169] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/04/2021] [Revised: 11/04/2021] [Accepted: 11/05/2021] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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In the field of gliomas research, the broad availability of genetic and image information originated by computer technologies and the booming of biomedical publications has led to the advent of the big-data era. Machine learning methods were applied as possible approaches to speed up the data mining processes. In this article, we reviewed the present situation and future orientations of machine learning application in gliomas within the context of workflows to integrate analysis for precision cancer care. Publicly available tools or algorithms for key machine learning technologies in the literature mining for glioma clinical research were reviewed and compared. Further, the existing solutions of machine learning methods and their limitations in glioma prediction and diagnostics, such as overfitting and class imbalanced, were critically analyzed.
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AbstractBrain tumor occurs owing to uncontrolled and rapid growth of cells. If not treated at an initial phase, it may lead to death. Despite many significant efforts and promising outcomes in this domain, accurate segmentation and classification remain a challenging task. A major challenge for brain tumor detection arises from the variations in tumor location, shape, and size. The objective of this survey is to deliver a comprehensive literature on brain tumor detection through magnetic resonance imaging to help the researchers. This survey covered the anatomy of brain tumors, publicly available datasets, enhancement techniques, segmentation, feature extraction, classification, and deep learning, transfer learning and quantum machine learning for brain tumors analysis. Finally, this survey provides all important literature for the detection of brain tumors with their advantages, limitations, developments, and future trends.
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Al-Saffar ZA, Yildirim T. A hybrid approach based on multiple Eigenvalues selection (MES) for the automated grading of a brain tumor using MRI. COMPUTER METHODS AND PROGRAMS IN BIOMEDICINE 2021; 201:105945. [PMID: 33581624 DOI: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2021.105945] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/28/2020] [Accepted: 01/12/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE The manual segmentation, identification, and classification of brain tumor using magnetic resonance (MR) images are essential for making a correct diagnosis. It is, however, an exhausting and time consuming task performed by clinical experts and the accuracy of the results is subject to their point of view. Computer aided technology has therefore been developed to computerize these procedures. METHODS In order to improve the outcomes and decrease the complications involved in the process of analysing medical images, this study has investigated several methods. These include: a Local Difference in Intensity - Means (LDI-Means) based brain tumor segmentation, Mutual Information (MI) based feature selection, Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) based dimensionality reduction, and both Support Vector Machine (SVM) and Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP) based brain tumor classification. Also, this study has presented a new method named Multiple Eigenvalues Selection (MES) to choose the most meaningful features as inputs to the classifiers. This combination between unsupervised and supervised techniques formed an effective system for the grading of brain glioma. RESULTS The experimental results of the proposed method showed an excellent performance in terms of accuracy, recall, specificity, precision, and error rate. They are 91.02%,86.52%, 94.26%, 87.07%, and 0.0897 respectively. CONCLUSION The obtained results prove the significance and effectiveness of the proposed method in comparison to other state-of-the-art techniques and it can have in the contribution to an early diagnosis of brain glioma.
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- Zahraa A Al-Saffar
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Al-Khwarizmi Collage of Engineering, University of Baghdad, Baghdad 10071, Iraq; Department of Electronics and Communications Engineering, Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul 34220, Turkey.
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- Department of Electronics and Communications Engineering, Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul 34220, Turkey
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Romdhane F, Villano D, Irrera P, Consolino L, Longo DL. Evaluation of a similarity anisotropic diffusion denoising approach for improving in vivo CEST-MRI tumor pH imaging. Magn Reson Med 2021; 85:3479-3496. [PMID: 33496986 DOI: 10.1002/mrm.28676] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/10/2020] [Revised: 12/18/2020] [Accepted: 12/18/2020] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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PURPOSE Chemical exchange saturation transfer MRI provides new approaches for investigating tumor microenvironment, including tumor acidosis that plays a key role in tumor progression and resistance to therapy. Following iopamidol injection, the detection of the contrast agent inside the tumor tissue allows measurements of tumor extracellular pH. However, accurate tumor pH quantifications are hampered by the low contrast efficiency of the CEST technique and by the low SNR of the acquired CEST images, hence in a reduced detectability of the injected agent. This work aims to investigate a novel denoising method for improving both tumor pH quantification and accuracy of CEST-MRI pH imaging. METHODS An hybrid denoising approach was investigated for CEST-MRI pH imaging based on the combination of the nonlocal mean filter and the anisotropic diffusion tensor method. The denoising approach was tested in simulated and in vitro data and compared with previously reported methods for CEST imaging and with established denoising approaches. Finally, it was validated with in vivo data to improve the accuracy of tumor pH maps. RESULTS The proposed method outperforms current denoising methods in CEST contrast quantification and detection of the administered contrast agent at several increasing noise levels with simulated data. In addition, it achieved a better pH quantification in in vitro data and demonstrated a marked improvement in contrast detection and a substantial improvement in tumor pH accuracy in in vivo data. CONCLUSION The proposed approach effectively reduces the noise in CEST images and increases the sensitivity detection in CEST-MRI pH imaging.
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- Feriel Romdhane
- Molecular Imaging Center, Department of Molecular Biotechnology and Health Sciences, University of Torino, Torino, Italy.,National Engineering School of Tunis, University al Manar, Tunis, Tunisia
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- Molecular Imaging Center, Department of Molecular Biotechnology and Health Sciences, University of Torino, Torino, Italy
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- University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli,", Caserta, Italy.,Institute of Biostructures and Bioimaging (IBB), Italian National Research Council (CNR), Torino, Italy
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- Molecular Imaging Center, Department of Molecular Biotechnology and Health Sciences, University of Torino, Torino, Italy
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- Institute of Biostructures and Bioimaging (IBB), Italian National Research Council (CNR), Torino, Italy
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Zhang H, Mo J, Jiang H, Li Z, Hu W, Zhang C, Wang Y, Wang X, Liu C, Zhao B, Zhang J, Zhang K. Deep Learning Model for the Automated Detection and Histopathological Prediction of Meningioma. Neuroinformatics 2020; 19:393-402. [PMID: 32974873 DOI: 10.1007/s12021-020-09492-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 09/18/2020] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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The volumetric assessment and accurate grading of meningiomas before surgery are highly relevant for therapy planning and prognosis prediction. This study was to design a deep learning algorithm and evaluate the performance in detecting meningioma lesions and grade classification. In total, 5088 patients with histopathologically confirmed meningioma were retrospectively included. The pyramid scene parsing network (PSPNet) was trained to automatically detect and delineate the meningiomas. The results were compared to manual segmentations by evaluating the mean intersection over union (mIoU). The performance of grade classification was evaluated by accuracy. For the automated detection and segmentation of meningiomas, the mean pixel accuracy, tumor accuracy, background accuracy and mIoU were 99.68%, 81.36%, 99.88% and 81.36% for all patients; 99.52%, 84.86%, 99.93% and 84.86% for grade I meningiomas; 99.57%, 80.11%, 99.92% and 80.12% for grade II meningiomas; and 99.75%, 78.40%, 99.99% and 78.40% for grade III meningiomas, respectively. For grade classification, the accuracy values of the training and test datasets were 99.93% and 81.52% for all patients; 99.98% and 98.51% for grade I meningiomas; 99.91% and 66.67% for grade II meningiomas; and 99.88% and 73.91% for grade III meningiomas, respectively. The automated detection, segmentation and grade classification of meningiomas based on deep learning were accurate and reliable and may improve the monitoring and treatment of this frequently occurring tumor entity. Furthermore, the method could function as a useful tool for preassessment and preselection for radiologists, offering auxiliary information for clinical decision making in presurgical evaluation.
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- Hua Zhang
- Department of Neurosurgery, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.,Department of Neurosurgery, Beijing Neurosurgical Institute, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.,China National Clinical Research Center for Neurological Diseases, Beijing, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.,Department of Neurosurgery, Beijing Neurosurgical Institute, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.,China National Clinical Research Center for Neurological Diseases, Beijing, China
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- OpenBayes Joint Laboratory For Artificial Intelligence, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China
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- OpenBayes Joint Laboratory For Artificial Intelligence, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China.,Graduate School of IPS, Waseda University, Fukuoka, Japan
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.,Department of Neurosurgery, Beijing Neurosurgical Institute, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.,China National Clinical Research Center for Neurological Diseases, Beijing, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.,Department of Neurosurgery, Beijing Neurosurgical Institute, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.,China National Clinical Research Center for Neurological Diseases, Beijing, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.,Department of Neurosurgery, Beijing Neurosurgical Institute, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.,China National Clinical Research Center for Neurological Diseases, Beijing, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.,Department of Neurosurgery, Beijing Neurosurgical Institute, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.,China National Clinical Research Center for Neurological Diseases, Beijing, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.,Department of Neurosurgery, Beijing Neurosurgical Institute, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.,China National Clinical Research Center for Neurological Diseases, Beijing, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.,Department of Neurosurgery, Beijing Neurosurgical Institute, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.,China National Clinical Research Center for Neurological Diseases, Beijing, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China. .,Department of Neurosurgery, Beijing Neurosurgical Institute, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China. .,China National Clinical Research Center for Neurological Diseases, Beijing, China.
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China. .,Department of Neurosurgery, Beijing Neurosurgical Institute, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China. .,China National Clinical Research Center for Neurological Diseases, Beijing, China.
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A Robust Algorithm for Classification and Diagnosis of Brain Disease Using Local Linear Approximation and Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroscedasticity Model. MATHEMATICS 2020. [DOI: 10.3390/math8081268] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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Regions detection has an influence on the better treatment of brain tumors. Existing algorithms in the early detection of tumors are difficult to diagnose reliably. In this paper, we introduced a new robust algorithm using three methods for the classification of brain disease. The first method is Wavelet-Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroscedasticity-K-Nearest Neighbor (W-GARCH-KNN). The Two-Dimensional Discrete Wavelet (2D-DWT) is utilized as the input images. The sub-banded wavelet coefficients are modeled using the GARCH model. The features of the GARCH model are considered as the main property vector. The second method is the Developed Wavelet-GARCH-KNN (D-WGK), which solves the incompatibility of the WGK method for the use of a low pass sub-band. The third method is the Wavelet Local Linear Approximation (LLA)-KNN, which we used for modeling the wavelet sub-bands. The extracted features were applied separately to determine the normal image or brain tumor based on classification methods. The classification was performed for the diagnosis of tumor types. The empirical results showed that the proposed algorithm obtained a high rate of classification and better practices than recently introduced algorithms while requiring a smaller number of classification features. According to the results, the Low-Low sub-bands are not adopted with the GARCH model; therefore, with the use of homomorphic filtering, this limitation is overcome. The results showed that the presented Local Linear (LL) method was better than the GARCH model for modeling wavelet sub-bands.
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Gong S, Gao W, Abza F. Brain tumor diagnosis based on artificial neural network and a chaos whale optimization algorithm. Comput Intell 2019. [DOI: 10.1111/coin.12259] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Shu Gong
- Department of Computer ScienceGuangdong University Science and Technology Dongguan China
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- School of Information Science and TechnologyYunnan Normal University Kunming China
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- Department of Computer ScienceUniversity of Ghana Legon‐Accra Ghana
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Zhou Q, Zhou Z, Chen C, Fan G, Chen G, Heng H, Ji J, Dai Y. Grading of hepatocellular carcinoma using 3D SE-DenseNet in dynamic enhanced MR images. Comput Biol Med 2019; 107:47-57. [PMID: 30776671 DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2019.01.026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/19/2018] [Revised: 01/30/2019] [Accepted: 01/30/2019] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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BACKGROUND Clinical histological grading of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) differentiation is of great significance in clinical diagnoses, treatments, and prognoses. However, it is challenging for radiologists to evaluate HCC gradings from medical images. PURPOSE In this study, a novel deep neural network was developed by combining the squeeze-and-excitation networks (SENets) in a three-dimensional (3D) densely connected convolutional network (DenseNet), which is referred to as a 3D SE-DenseNet, for the classification of HCC grading using enhanced clinical magnetic resonance (MR) images obtained from two different clinical centers. METHOD In the proposed architecture, the SENet was added as an additional layer between the dense blocks of the 3D DenseNet, to mitigate the impact of feature redundancy. For the HCC grading task, the 3D SE-DenseNet was trained after data augmentation, and it outperformed the 3D DenseNet based on the clinical dataset. RESULTS The quantitative evaluations of the 3D SE-DenseNet on a two-class HCC grading task were conducted based on the dataset, which included 213 samples of the dynamic enhanced MR images. The proposed 3D SE-DenseNet demonstrated an accuracy of 83%, when compared with the 72% accuracy of the 3D DenseNet. CONCLUSION Owing to the advantage of useful automatic feature learning by the SE layer, the 3D SE-DenseNet can simultaneously handle useful feature enhancement and superfluous feature suppression. The quantitative experiments confirm the excellent performance of the 3D SE-DenseNet in the evaluation of the HCC grading.
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- Qing Zhou
- University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230026, China; Suzhou Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Suzhou, 215163, China
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- Suzhou Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Suzhou, 215163, China
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- Key Laboratory of Imaging Diagnosis and Minimally Invasive Intervention Research, Affiliated Lishui Hospital of Zhejiang University, The Fifth Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Lishui Central Hospital, Lishui, 323000, China
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- Department of Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, 215004, China
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- Department of Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, 215004, China
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- Department of Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, 215004, China
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- Key Laboratory of Imaging Diagnosis and Minimally Invasive Intervention Research, Affiliated Lishui Hospital of Zhejiang University, The Fifth Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Lishui Central Hospital, Lishui, 323000, China.
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- Suzhou Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Suzhou, 215163, China.
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Yang Y, Yan LF, Zhang X, Han Y, Nan HY, Hu YC, Hu B, Yan SL, Zhang J, Cheng DL, Ge XW, Cui GB, Zhao D, Wang W. Glioma Grading on Conventional MR Images: A Deep Learning Study With Transfer Learning. Front Neurosci 2018; 12:804. [PMID: 30498429 PMCID: PMC6250094 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2018.00804] [Citation(s) in RCA: 117] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2018] [Accepted: 10/16/2018] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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Background: Accurate glioma grading before surgery is of the utmost importance in treatment planning and prognosis prediction. But previous studies on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) images were not effective enough. According to the remarkable performance of convolutional neural network (CNN) in medical domain, we hypothesized that a deep learning algorithm can achieve high accuracy in distinguishing the World Health Organization (WHO) low grade and high grade gliomas. Methods: One hundred and thirteen glioma patients were retrospectively included. Tumor images were segmented with a rectangular region of interest (ROI), which contained about 80% of the tumor. Then, 20% data were randomly selected and leaved out at patient-level as test dataset. AlexNet and GoogLeNet were both trained from scratch and fine-tuned from models that pre-trained on the large scale natural image database, ImageNet, to magnetic resonance images. The classification task was evaluated with five-fold cross-validation (CV) on patient-level split. Results: The performance measures, including validation accuracy, test accuracy and test area under curve (AUC), averaged from five-fold CV of GoogLeNet which trained from scratch were 0.867, 0.909, and 0.939, respectively. With transfer learning and fine-tuning, better performances were obtained for both AlexNet and GoogLeNet, especially for AlexNet. Meanwhile, GoogLeNet performed better than AlexNet no matter trained from scratch or learned from pre-trained model. Conclusion: In conclusion, we demonstrated that the application of CNN, especially trained with transfer learning and fine-tuning, to preoperative glioma grading improves the performance, compared with either the performance of traditional machine learning method based on hand-crafted features, or even the CNNs trained from scratch.
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- Yang Yang
- Functional and Molecular Imaging Key Lab of Shaanxi Province, Department of Radiology, Tangdu Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China
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- Functional and Molecular Imaging Key Lab of Shaanxi Province, Department of Radiology, Tangdu Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China
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- Functional and Molecular Imaging Key Lab of Shaanxi Province, Department of Radiology, Tangdu Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China
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- Functional and Molecular Imaging Key Lab of Shaanxi Province, Department of Radiology, Tangdu Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China
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- Functional and Molecular Imaging Key Lab of Shaanxi Province, Department of Radiology, Tangdu Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China
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- Functional and Molecular Imaging Key Lab of Shaanxi Province, Department of Radiology, Tangdu Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China
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- Functional and Molecular Imaging Key Lab of Shaanxi Province, Department of Radiology, Tangdu Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China
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- Computer Network Information Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Functional and Molecular Imaging Key Lab of Shaanxi Province, Department of Radiology, Tangdu Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China
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- Student Brigade, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China
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- Student Brigade, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China
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- Functional and Molecular Imaging Key Lab of Shaanxi Province, Department of Radiology, Tangdu Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China
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- Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Functional and Molecular Imaging Key Lab of Shaanxi Province, Department of Radiology, Tangdu Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China
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Citak-Er F, Firat Z, Kovanlikaya I, Ture U, Ozturk-Isik E. Machine-learning in grading of gliomas based on multi-parametric magnetic resonance imaging at 3T. Comput Biol Med 2018; 99:154-160. [PMID: 29933126 DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2018.06.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2018] [Revised: 06/10/2018] [Accepted: 06/11/2018] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to assess the contribution of multi-parametric (mp) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) quantitative features in the machine learning-based grading of gliomas with a multi-region-of-interests approach. MATERIALS AND METHODS Forty-three patients who were newly diagnosed as having a glioma were included in this study. The patients were scanned prior to any therapy using a standard brain tumor magnetic resonance (MR) imaging protocol that included T1 and T2-weighted, diffusion-weighted, diffusion tensor, MR perfusion and MR spectroscopic imaging. Three different regions-of-interest were drawn for each subject to encompass tumor, immediate tumor periphery, and distant peritumoral edema/normal. The normalized mp-MRI features were used to build machine-learning models for differentiating low-grade gliomas (WHO grades I and II) from high grades (WHO grades III and IV). In order to assess the contribution of regional mp-MRI quantitative features to the classification models, a support vector machine-based recursive feature elimination method was applied prior to classification. RESULTS A machine-learning model based on support vector machine algorithm with linear kernel achieved an accuracy of 93.0%, a specificity of 86.7%, and a sensitivity of 96.4% for the grading of gliomas using ten-fold cross validation based on the proposed subset of the mp-MRI features. CONCLUSION In this study, machine-learning based on multiregional and multi-parametric MRI data has proven to be an important tool in grading glial tumors accurately even in this limited patient population. Future studies are needed to investigate the use of machine learning algorithms for brain tumor classification in a larger patient cohort.
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- Fusun Citak-Er
- Department of Computer Programming, Pîrî Reis University, Istanbul, Turkey; Department of Biotechnology, Yeditepe University, Istanbul, Turkey.
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- Department of Radiology, Yeditepe University Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Department of Radiology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Yeditepe University Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Biomedical Engineering Institute, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey
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Optimizing a machine learning based glioma grading system using multi-parametric MRI histogram and texture features. Oncotarget 2018; 8:47816-47830. [PMID: 28599282 PMCID: PMC5564607 DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.18001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/17/2017] [Accepted: 04/19/2017] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Current machine learning techniques provide the opportunity to develop noninvasive and automated glioma grading tools, by utilizing quantitative parameters derived from multi-modal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data. However, the efficacies of different machine learning methods in glioma grading have not been investigated.A comprehensive comparison of varied machine learning methods in differentiating low-grade gliomas (LGGs) and high-grade gliomas (HGGs) as well as WHO grade II, III and IV gliomas based on multi-parametric MRI images was proposed in the current study. The parametric histogram and image texture attributes of 120 glioma patients were extracted from the perfusion, diffusion and permeability parametric maps of preoperative MRI. Then, 25 commonly used machine learning classifiers combined with 8 independent attribute selection methods were applied and evaluated using leave-one-out cross validation (LOOCV) strategy. Besides, the influences of parameter selection on the classifying performances were investigated. We found that support vector machine (SVM) exhibited superior performance to other classifiers. By combining all tumor attributes with synthetic minority over-sampling technique (SMOTE), the highest classifying accuracy of 0.945 or 0.961 for LGG and HGG or grade II, III and IV gliomas was achieved. Application of Recursive Feature Elimination (RFE) attribute selection strategy further improved the classifying accuracies. Besides, the performances of LibSVM, SMO, IBk classifiers were influenced by some key parameters such as kernel type, c, gama, K, etc. SVM is a promising tool in developing automated preoperative glioma grading system, especially when being combined with RFE strategy. Model parameters should be considered in glioma grading model optimization.
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Duraisamy B, Shanmugam JV, Annamalai J. Alzheimer disease detection from structural MR images using FCM based weighted probabilistic neural network. Brain Imaging Behav 2018; 13:87-110. [DOI: 10.1007/s11682-018-9831-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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Iqbal S, Khan MUG, Saba T, Rehman A. Computer-assisted brain tumor type discrimination using magnetic resonance imaging features. Biomed Eng Lett 2018; 8:5-28. [PMID: 30603187 PMCID: PMC6208555 DOI: 10.1007/s13534-017-0050-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/2017] [Revised: 08/15/2017] [Accepted: 09/21/2017] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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Medical imaging plays an integral role in the identification, segmentation, and classification of brain tumors. The invention of MRI has opened new horizons for brain-related research. Recently, researchers have shifted their focus towards applying digital image processing techniques to extract, analyze and categorize brain tumors from MRI. Categorization of brain tumors is defined in a hierarchical way moving from major to minor ones. A plethora of work could be seen in literature related to the classification of brain tumors in categories such as benign and malignant. However, there are only a few works reported on the multiclass classification of brain images where each part of the image containing tumor is tagged with major and minor categories. The precise classification is difficult to achieve due to ambiguities in images and overlapping characteristics of different type of tumors. In the current study, a comprehensive review of recent research on brain tumors multiclass classification using MRI is provided. These multiclass classification studies are categorized into two major groups: XX and YY and each group are further divided into three sub-groups. A set of common parameters from the reviewed works is extracted and compared to highlight the merits and demerits of individual works. Based on our analysis, we provide a set of recommendations for researchers and professionals working in the area of brain tumors classification.
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- Sajid Iqbal
- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan
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- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan
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- College of Computer and Information Sciences, Prince Sultan University, Riyadh, 11586 Saudi Arabia
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- College of Computer and Information Systems, Al-Yamamah University, Riyadh, 11512 Saudi Arabia
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Li Y, Qian Z, Xu K, Wang K, Fan X, Li S, Jiang T, Liu X, Wang Y. MRI features predict p53 status in lower-grade gliomas via a machine-learning approach. NEUROIMAGE-CLINICAL 2017. [PMID: 29527478 PMCID: PMC5842645 DOI: 10.1016/j.nicl.2017.10.030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Background P53 mutation status is a pivotal biomarker for gliomas. Here, we developed a machine-learning model to predict p53 status in lower-grade gliomas based on radiomic features extracted from conventional magnetic resonance (MR) images. Methods Preoperative MR images were retrospectively obtained from 272 patients with primary grade II/III gliomas. The patients were randomly allocated in a 2:1 ratio to a training (n = 180) or validation (n = 92) set. A total of 431 radiomic features were extracted from each patient. The lest absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO) method was used for feature selection and radiomic signature construction. Subsequently, a machine-learning model to predict p53 status was established using the selected features and a Support Vector Machine classifier. The predictive performance of all individual features and the model was calculated using receiver operating characteristic curves in both the training and validation sets. Results The p53-related radiomic signature was built using the LASSO algorithm; this procedure consisted of four first-order statistics or related wavelet features (including Maximum, Median, Minimum, and Uniformity), a shape and size-based feature (Spherical Disproportion), and ten textural features or related wavelet features (including Correlation, Run Percentage, and Sum Entropy). The prediction accuracies based on the area under the curve were 89.6% in the training set and 76.3% in the validation set, which were better than individual features. Conclusions These results demonstrate that MR image texture features are predictive of p53 mutation status in lower-grade gliomas. Thus, our procedure can be conveniently used to facilitate presurgical molecular pathological diagnosis. We established a p53-related radiomic signature in lower-grade gliomas based on LASSO algorithm. We developed a machine-learning model using the radiomic signature and a support vector machine. P53 mutation status of lower-grade gliomas was predicted effectively based on our machine-learning model.
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- Yiming Li
- Beijing Neurosurgical Institute, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- Beijing Neurosurgical Institute, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Automation, Beijing, China
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- Department of Neuroradiology, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- Beijing Neurosurgical Institute, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- Neurological Imaging Center, Beijing Neurosurgical Institute, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- Beijing Neurosurgical Institute, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China; Department of Neurosurgery, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China; Center of Brain Tumor, Beijing Institute for Brain Disorders, Beijing, China; China National Clinical Research Center for Neurological Diseases, Beijing, China.
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- Beijing Neurosurgical Institute, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.
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Kather JN, Weis CA, Bianconi F, Melchers SM, Schad LR, Gaiser T, Marx A, Zöllner FG. Multi-class texture analysis in colorectal cancer histology. Sci Rep 2016; 6:27988. [PMID: 27306927 PMCID: PMC4910082 DOI: 10.1038/srep27988] [Citation(s) in RCA: 148] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2016] [Accepted: 05/25/2016] [Indexed: 02/08/2023] Open
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Automatic recognition of different tissue types in histological images is an essential part in the digital pathology toolbox. Texture analysis is commonly used to address this problem; mainly in the context of estimating the tumour/stroma ratio on histological samples. However, although histological images typically contain more than two tissue types, only few studies have addressed the multi-class problem. For colorectal cancer, one of the most prevalent tumour types, there are in fact no published results on multiclass texture separation. In this paper we present a new dataset of 5,000 histological images of human colorectal cancer including eight different types of tissue. We used this set to assess the classification performance of a wide range of texture descriptors and classifiers. As a result, we found an optimal classification strategy that markedly outperformed traditional methods, improving the state of the art for tumour-stroma separation from 96.9% to 98.6% accuracy and setting a new standard for multiclass tissue separation (87.4% accuracy for eight classes). We make our dataset of histological images publicly available under a Creative Commons license and encourage other researchers to use it as a benchmark for their studies.
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- Jakob Nikolas Kather
- Institute of Pathology, University Medical Center Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany
- Institute of Computer Assisted Clinical Medicine, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany
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- Institute of Pathology, University Medical Center Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany
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- Department of Dermatology, Venereology and Allergology, University Medical Center Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany
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- Institute of Computer Assisted Clinical Medicine, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany
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- Institute of Pathology, University Medical Center Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany
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- Institute of Pathology, University Medical Center Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany
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- Institute of Computer Assisted Clinical Medicine, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany
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KOSTOPOULOS S, KONSTANDINOU C, SIDIROPOULOS K, RAVAZOULA P, KALATZIS I, ASVESTAS P, CAVOURAS D, GLOTSOS D. Assessing the performance of four different categories of histological criteria in brain tumours grading by means of a computer-aided diagnosis image analysis system. J Microsc 2015; 260:37-46. [DOI: 10.1111/jmi.12264] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/2014] [Accepted: 04/13/2015] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- S. KOSTOPOULOS
- Medical Image and Signal Processing Laboratory; Department of Biomedical Engineering, Technological Educational Institute of Athens; 12210 Egaleo Athens Greece
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- Department of Medical Physics; University of Patras; 26504 Rio Patras Greece
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- School of Engineering and Design; Brunel University West London; Uxbridge Middlesex UB8 3PH United Kingdom
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- Department of Pathology; University Hospital of Patras; 26504 Rio Patras Greece
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- Medical Image and Signal Processing Laboratory; Department of Biomedical Engineering, Technological Educational Institute of Athens; 12210 Egaleo Athens Greece
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- Medical Image and Signal Processing Laboratory; Department of Biomedical Engineering, Technological Educational Institute of Athens; 12210 Egaleo Athens Greece
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- Medical Image and Signal Processing Laboratory; Department of Biomedical Engineering, Technological Educational Institute of Athens; 12210 Egaleo Athens Greece
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- Medical Image and Signal Processing Laboratory; Department of Biomedical Engineering, Technological Educational Institute of Athens; 12210 Egaleo Athens Greece
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Coquery N, Francois O, Lemasson B, Debacker C, Farion R, Rémy C, Barbier EL. Microvascular MRI and unsupervised clustering yields histology-resembling images in two rat models of glioma. J Cereb Blood Flow Metab 2014; 34:1354-62. [PMID: 24849664 PMCID: PMC4126096 DOI: 10.1038/jcbfm.2014.90] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/14/2013] [Revised: 04/22/2014] [Accepted: 04/24/2014] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Imaging heterogeneous cancer lesions is a real challenge. For diagnosis, histology often remains the reference, but it is widely acknowledged that biopsies are not reliable. There is thus a strong interest in establishing a link between clinical in vivo imaging and the biologic properties of tissues. In this study, we propose to construct histology-resembling images based on tissue microvascularization, a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) accessible source of contrast. To integrate the large amount of information collected with microvascular MRI, we combined a manual delineation of a spatial region of interest with an unsupervised, model-based cluster analysis (Mclust). This approach was applied to two rat models of glioma (C6 and F98). Six MRI parameters were mapped: apparent diffusion coefficient, vessel wall permeability, cerebral blood volume fraction, cerebral blood flow, tissular oxygen saturation, and cerebral metabolic rate of oxygen. Five clusters, defined by their MRI features, were found to correspond to specific histologic features, and revealed intratumoral spatial structures. These results suggest that the presence of a cluster within a tumor can be used to assess the presence of a tissue type. In addition, the cluster composition, i.e., a signature of the intratumoral structure, could be used to characterize tumor models as histology does.
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- Nicolas Coquery
- 1] INSERM, U836, Grenoble, France [2] Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France
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- 1] Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France [2] CNRS, UMR5525, TIMC-IMAG Laboratory, La Tronche, France
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- 1] INSERM, U836, Grenoble, France [2] Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France
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- 1] INSERM, U836, Grenoble, France [2] Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France [3] Bruker Biospin MRI, Wissembourg, France
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- 1] INSERM, U836, Grenoble, France [2] Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France
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- 1] INSERM, U836, Grenoble, France [2] Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France
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- 1] INSERM, U836, Grenoble, France [2] Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France
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Multi-parametric (ADC/PWI/T2-w) image fusion approach for accurate semi-automatic segmentation of tumorous regions in glioblastoma multiforme. MAGNETIC RESONANCE MATERIALS IN PHYSICS BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE 2014; 28:13-22. [DOI: 10.1007/s10334-014-0442-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/27/2013] [Revised: 03/11/2014] [Accepted: 03/11/2014] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Zöllner FG, Zimmer F, Klotz S, Hoeger S, Schad LR. Functional imaging of acute kidney injury at 3 Tesla: investigating multiple parameters using DCE-MRI and a two-compartment filtration model. Z Med Phys 2014; 25:58-65. [PMID: 24629306 DOI: 10.1016/j.zemedi.2014.01.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/11/2013] [Revised: 01/10/2014] [Accepted: 01/10/2014] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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OBJECT To investigate how MR-based parameters reflect functional changes in kidneys with acute kidney injury (AKI) using dynamic contrast enhanced MRI and a two-compartment renal filtration model. MATERIALS AND METHODS MRI data of eight male Lewis rats were analyzed retrospectively. Five animals were subjected to AKI, three native rats served as control. All animals underwent perfusion imaging by dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI. Renal blood volume, glomerular filtration rate (GFR) as well as plasma and tubular mean transit times were estimated from regions-of-interest drawn in the renal cortex. Differences between healthy kidneys and kidneys subjected to AKI were analyzed using a paired t-test. RESULTS Significant differences between ischemic and healthy kidneys could only be detected for the glomerular filtration rate. For all other calculated parameters, differences were present, however not significant. In rats with AKI, average single kidney GFR was 0.66 ± 0.37 ml/min for contralateral and 0.26 ± 0.12 ml/ min for diseased kidneys (P = 0.0254). For the healthy control group, the average GFR was 0.39 ± 0.06 ml/min and 0.41 ± 0.11 ml/min, respectively. Differences between diseased kidneys of AKI rats and ipsilateral kidneys of the healthy control group were significant (P = 0.0381). CONCLUSION Significant differences of functional parameters reflecting damage of the renal tissue of kidneys with AKI compared to the contralateral, healthy kidneys could only be detected by GFR. GFR might be a useful parameter that allows for a spatially resolved detection of abnormal changes of renal tissue by AKI.
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- Frank G Zöllner
- Computer Assisted Clinical Medicine, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany.
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- Computer Assisted Clinical Medicine, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany
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- Department of Medicine V, University Medical Centre Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany
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- Department of Medicine V, University Medical Centre Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany
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- Computer Assisted Clinical Medicine, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany
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