A Quantitative Imaging Biomarker Supporting Radiological Assessment of Hippocampal Sclerosis Derived From Deep Learning-Based Segmentation of T1w-MRI.

Rebsamen, Michael; Radojewski, Piotr; McKinley, Richard; Reyes, Mauricio; Wiest, Roland; Rummel, Christian (2022). A Quantitative Imaging Biomarker Supporting Radiological Assessment of Hippocampal Sclerosis Derived From Deep Learning-Based Segmentation of T1w-MRI. Frontiers in neurology, 13, p. 812432. Frontiers Media S.A. 10.3389/fneur.2022.812432

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Purpose

Hippocampal volumetry is an important biomarker to quantify atrophy in patients with mesial temporal lobe epilepsy. We investigate the sensitivity of automated segmentation methods to support radiological assessments of hippocampal sclerosis (HS). Results from FreeSurfer and FSL-FIRST are contrasted to a deep learning (DL)-based segmentation method.

Materials and Methods

We used T1-weighted MRI scans from 105 patients with epilepsy and 354 healthy controls. FreeSurfer, FSL, and a DL-based method were applied for brain anatomy segmentation. We calculated effect sizes (Cohen's d) between left/right HS and healthy controls based on the asymmetry of hippocampal volumes. Additionally, we derived 14 shape features from the segmentations and determined the most discriminating feature to identify patients with hippocampal sclerosis by a support vector machine (SVM).

Results

Deep learning-based segmentation of the hippocampus was the most sensitive to detecting HS. The effect sizes of the volume asymmetries were larger with the DL-based segmentations (HS left d= -4.2, right = 4.2) than with FreeSurfer (left= -3.1, right = 3.7) and FSL (left= -2.3, right = 2.5). For the classification based on the shape features, the surface-to-volume ratio was identified as the most important feature. Its absolute asymmetry yielded a higher area under the curve (AUC) for the deep learning-based segmentation (AUC = 0.87) than for FreeSurfer (0.85) and FSL (0.78) to dichotomize HS from other epilepsy cases. The robustness estimated from repeated scans was statistically significantly higher with DL than all other methods.

Conclusion

Our findings suggest that deep learning-based segmentation methods yield a higher sensitivity to quantify hippocampal sclerosis than atlas-based methods and derived shape features are more robust. We propose an increased asymmetry in the surface-to-volume ratio of the hippocampus as an easy-to-interpret quantitative imaging biomarker for HS.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

04 Faculty of Medicine > Department of Radiology, Neuroradiology and Nuclear Medicine (DRNN) > Institute of Diagnostic and Interventional Neuroradiology
10 Strategic Research Centers > ARTORG Center for Biomedical Engineering Research

Graduate School:

Graduate School for Cellular and Biomedical Sciences (GCB)

UniBE Contributor:

Rebsamen, Michael Andreas, Radojewski, Piotr, McKinley, Richard Iain, Reyes, Mauricio, Wiest, Roland Gerhard Rudi, Rummel, Christian

Subjects:

600 Technology > 610 Medicine & health
500 Science > 570 Life sciences; biology

ISSN:

1664-2295

Publisher:

Frontiers Media S.A.

Language:

English

Submitter:

Pubmed Import

Date Deposited:

08 Mar 2022 10:27

Last Modified:

02 Mar 2023 23:36

Publisher DOI:

10.3389/fneur.2022.812432

PubMed ID:

35250818

Uncontrolled Keywords:

MRI brain morphometry deep learning epilepsy hippocampal sclerosis hippocampus segmentation

BORIS DOI:

10.48350/166750

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/166750

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