1. An Automated Method for Artifical Intelligence Assisted Diagnosis of Active Aortitis Using Radiomic Analysis of FDG PET-CT Images.
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Duff, Lisa M., Scarsbrook, Andrew F., Ravikumar, Nishant, Frood, Russell, van Praagh, Gijs D., Mackie, Sarah L., Bailey, Marc A., Tarkin, Jason M., Mason, Justin C., van der Geest, Kornelis S. M., Slart, Riemer H. J. A., Morgan, Ann W., and Tsoumpas, Charalampos
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POSITRON emission tomography computed tomography ,AORTITIS ,RECEIVER operating characteristic curves ,CONVOLUTIONAL neural networks ,FEATURE selection ,SPACE surveillance - Abstract
The aim of this study was to develop and validate an automated pipeline that could assist the diagnosis of active aortitis using radiomic imaging biomarkers derived from [18F]-Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography-Computed Tomography (FDG PET-CT) images. The aorta was automatically segmented by convolutional neural network (CNN) on FDG PET-CT of aortitis and control patients. The FDG PET-CT dataset was split into training (43 aortitis:21 control), test (12 aortitis:5 control) and validation (24 aortitis:14 control) cohorts. Radiomic features (RF), including SUV metrics, were extracted from the segmented data and harmonized. Three radiomic fingerprints were constructed: A—RFs with high diagnostic utility removing highly correlated RFs; B used principal component analysis (PCA); C—Random Forest intrinsic feature selection. The diagnostic utility was evaluated with accuracy and area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC). Several RFs and Fingerprints had high AUC values (AUC > 0.8), confirmed by balanced accuracy, across training, test and external validation datasets. Good diagnostic performance achieved across several multi-centre datasets suggests that a radiomic pipeline can be generalizable. These findings could be used to build an automated clinical decision tool to facilitate objective and standardized assessment regardless of observer experience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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