2019 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Segmentation of Vertebral Metastases in MRI Using an U-Net like Convolutional Neural Network
verfasst von : Georg Hille, Max Dünnwald, Mathias Becker, Johannes Steffen, Sylvia Saalfeld, Klaus Tönnies
Erschienen in: Bildverarbeitung für die Medizin 2019
Verlag: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden
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This study’s objective was to segment vertebral metastases in diagnostic MR images by using a deep learning-based approach. Segmentation of such lesions can present a pivotal step towards enhanced therapy planning and implementation of minimally-invasive interventions like radiofrequency ablations. For this purpose, we used a U-Net-like architecture trained with 38 patient-cases. Our proposed method has been evaluated by comparison to expertly annotated lesion segmentations via Dice coeffcients, sensitivity and specificity rates. While the experiments with T1-weighted MRI images yielded promising results (average Dice score of 73:84 %), T2-weighted images were in average rather insufficient (53:02 %). To our best knowledge, our proposed study is the first to tackle this particular issue, which limits direct comparability with related works. In respect to similar deep learning-based lesion segmentations, e.g. in liver MR images or spinal CT images, our experiments with T1-weighted MR images show similar or in some respects superior segmentation quality.