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Deep learning methods allow fully automated segmentation of metacarpal bones to quantify volumetric bone mineral density

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العنوان: Deep learning methods allow fully automated segmentation of metacarpal bones to quantify volumetric bone mineral density
المؤلفون: Lukas Folle, Timo Meinderink, David Simon, Anna-Maria Liphardt, Gerhard Krönke, Georg Schett, Arnd Kleyer, Andreas Maier
المصدر: Scientific Reports, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 1-9 (2021)
بيانات النشر: Nature Portfolio, 2021.
سنة النشر: 2021
المجموعة: LCC:Medicine
LCC:Science
مصطلحات موضوعية: Medicine, Science
الوصف: Abstract Arthritis patients develop hand bone loss, which leads to destruction and functional impairment of the affected joints. High resolution peripheral quantitative computed tomography (HR-pQCT) allows the quantification of volumetric bone mineral density (vBMD) and bone microstructure in vivo with an isotropic voxel size of 82 micrometres. However, image-processing to obtain bone characteristics is a time-consuming process as it requires semi-automatic segmentation of the bone. In this work, a fully automatic vBMD measurement pipeline for the metacarpal (MC) bone using deep learning methods is introduced. Based on a dataset of HR-pQCT volumes with MC measurements for 541 patients with arthritis, a segmentation network is trained. The best network achieves an intersection over union as high as 0.94 and a Dice similarity coefficient of 0.97 while taking only 33 s to process a whole patient yielding a speedup between 2.5 and 4.0 for the whole workflow. Strong correlation between the vBMD measurements of the expert and of the automatic pipeline are achieved for the average bone density with 0.999 (Pearson) and 0.996 (Spearman’s rank) with $$p < 0.001$$ p < 0.001 for all correlations. A qualitative assessment of the network predictions and the manual annotations yields a 65.9% probability that the expert favors the network predictions. Further, the steps to integrate the pipeline into the clinical workflow are shown. In order to make these workflow improvements available to others, we openly share the code of this work.
نوع الوثيقة: article
وصف الملف: electronic resource
اللغة: English
تدمد: 2045-2322
Relation: https://doaj.org/toc/2045-2322
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-89111-9
URL الوصول: https://doaj.org/article/fe15b3d6fc804cfc8e6404bf83ab7a66
رقم الأكسشن: edsdoj.fe15b3d6fc804cfc8e6404bf83ab7a66
قاعدة البيانات: Directory of Open Access Journals
الوصف
تدمد:20452322
DOI:10.1038/s41598-021-89111-9