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Automated Quantification of Pneumonia Infected Volume in Lung CT Images: A Comparison with Subjective Assessment of Radiologists

Objective: To help improve radiologists’ efficacy of disease diagnosis in reading computed tomography (CT) images, this study aims to investigate the feasibility of applying a modified deep learning (DL) method as a new strategy to automatically segment disease-infected regions and predict disease s...

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Autores principales: Mirniaharikandehei, Seyedehnafiseh, Abdihamzehkolaei, Alireza, Choquehuanca, Angel, Aedo, Marco, Pacheco, Wilmer, Estacio, Laura, Cahui, Victor, Huallpa, Luis, Quiñonez, Kevin, Calderón, Valeria, Gutierrez, Ana Maria, Vargas, Ana, Gamero, Dery, Castro-Gutierrez, Eveling, Qiu, Yuchen, Zheng, Bin, Jo, Javier A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10044796/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36978712
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bioengineering10030321
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author Mirniaharikandehei, Seyedehnafiseh
Abdihamzehkolaei, Alireza
Choquehuanca, Angel
Aedo, Marco
Pacheco, Wilmer
Estacio, Laura
Cahui, Victor
Huallpa, Luis
Quiñonez, Kevin
Calderón, Valeria
Gutierrez, Ana Maria
Vargas, Ana
Gamero, Dery
Castro-Gutierrez, Eveling
Qiu, Yuchen
Zheng, Bin
Jo, Javier A.
author_facet Mirniaharikandehei, Seyedehnafiseh
Abdihamzehkolaei, Alireza
Choquehuanca, Angel
Aedo, Marco
Pacheco, Wilmer
Estacio, Laura
Cahui, Victor
Huallpa, Luis
Quiñonez, Kevin
Calderón, Valeria
Gutierrez, Ana Maria
Vargas, Ana
Gamero, Dery
Castro-Gutierrez, Eveling
Qiu, Yuchen
Zheng, Bin
Jo, Javier A.
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description Objective: To help improve radiologists’ efficacy of disease diagnosis in reading computed tomography (CT) images, this study aims to investigate the feasibility of applying a modified deep learning (DL) method as a new strategy to automatically segment disease-infected regions and predict disease severity. Methods: We employed a public dataset acquired from 20 COVID-19 patients, which includes manually annotated lung and infections masks, to train a new ensembled DL model that combines five customized residual attention U-Net models to segment disease infected regions followed by a Feature Pyramid Network model to predict disease severity stage. To test the potential clinical utility of the new DL model, we conducted an observer comparison study. First, we collected another set of CT images acquired from 80 COVID-19 patients and process images using the new DL model. Second, we asked two chest radiologists to read images of each CT scan and report the estimated percentage of the disease-infected lung volume and disease severity level. Third, we also asked radiologists to rate acceptance of DL model-generated segmentation results using a 5-scale rating method. Results: Data analysis results show that agreement of disease severity classification between the DL model and radiologists is >90% in 45 testing cases. Furthermore, >73% of cases received a high rating score (≥4) from two radiologists. Conclusion: This study demonstrates the feasibility of developing a new DL model to automatically segment disease-infected regions and quantitatively predict disease severity, which may help avoid tedious effort and inter-reader variability in subjective assessment of disease severity in future clinical practice.
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spelling pubmed-100447962023-03-29 Automated Quantification of Pneumonia Infected Volume in Lung CT Images: A Comparison with Subjective Assessment of Radiologists Mirniaharikandehei, Seyedehnafiseh Abdihamzehkolaei, Alireza Choquehuanca, Angel Aedo, Marco Pacheco, Wilmer Estacio, Laura Cahui, Victor Huallpa, Luis Quiñonez, Kevin Calderón, Valeria Gutierrez, Ana Maria Vargas, Ana Gamero, Dery Castro-Gutierrez, Eveling Qiu, Yuchen Zheng, Bin Jo, Javier A. Bioengineering (Basel) Article Objective: To help improve radiologists’ efficacy of disease diagnosis in reading computed tomography (CT) images, this study aims to investigate the feasibility of applying a modified deep learning (DL) method as a new strategy to automatically segment disease-infected regions and predict disease severity. Methods: We employed a public dataset acquired from 20 COVID-19 patients, which includes manually annotated lung and infections masks, to train a new ensembled DL model that combines five customized residual attention U-Net models to segment disease infected regions followed by a Feature Pyramid Network model to predict disease severity stage. To test the potential clinical utility of the new DL model, we conducted an observer comparison study. First, we collected another set of CT images acquired from 80 COVID-19 patients and process images using the new DL model. Second, we asked two chest radiologists to read images of each CT scan and report the estimated percentage of the disease-infected lung volume and disease severity level. Third, we also asked radiologists to rate acceptance of DL model-generated segmentation results using a 5-scale rating method. Results: Data analysis results show that agreement of disease severity classification between the DL model and radiologists is >90% in 45 testing cases. Furthermore, >73% of cases received a high rating score (≥4) from two radiologists. Conclusion: This study demonstrates the feasibility of developing a new DL model to automatically segment disease-infected regions and quantitatively predict disease severity, which may help avoid tedious effort and inter-reader variability in subjective assessment of disease severity in future clinical practice. MDPI 2023-03-02 /pmc/articles/PMC10044796/ /pubmed/36978712 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bioengineering10030321 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Mirniaharikandehei, Seyedehnafiseh
Abdihamzehkolaei, Alireza
Choquehuanca, Angel
Aedo, Marco
Pacheco, Wilmer
Estacio, Laura
Cahui, Victor
Huallpa, Luis
Quiñonez, Kevin
Calderón, Valeria
Gutierrez, Ana Maria
Vargas, Ana
Gamero, Dery
Castro-Gutierrez, Eveling
Qiu, Yuchen
Zheng, Bin
Jo, Javier A.
Automated Quantification of Pneumonia Infected Volume in Lung CT Images: A Comparison with Subjective Assessment of Radiologists
title Automated Quantification of Pneumonia Infected Volume in Lung CT Images: A Comparison with Subjective Assessment of Radiologists
title_full Automated Quantification of Pneumonia Infected Volume in Lung CT Images: A Comparison with Subjective Assessment of Radiologists
title_fullStr Automated Quantification of Pneumonia Infected Volume in Lung CT Images: A Comparison with Subjective Assessment of Radiologists
title_full_unstemmed Automated Quantification of Pneumonia Infected Volume in Lung CT Images: A Comparison with Subjective Assessment of Radiologists
title_short Automated Quantification of Pneumonia Infected Volume in Lung CT Images: A Comparison with Subjective Assessment of Radiologists
title_sort automated quantification of pneumonia infected volume in lung ct images: a comparison with subjective assessment of radiologists
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10044796/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36978712
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bioengineering10030321
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