Zbinden, Lukas; Catucci, Damiano; Suter, Yannick Raphael; Hulbert, Leona; Berzigotti, Annalisa; Brönnimann, Michael; Ebner, Lukas; Christe, Andreas; Obmann, Verena Carola; Sznitman, Raphael; Huber, Adrian Thomas (2023). Automated liver segmental volume ratio quantification on non-contrast T1-Vibe Dixon liver MRI using deep learning. European journal of radiology, 167, p. 111047. Elsevier 10.1016/j.ejrad.2023.111047
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PURPOSE
To evaluate the effectiveness of automated liver segmental volume quantification and calculation of the liver segmental volume ratio (LSVR) on a non-contrast T1-vibe Dixon liver MRI sequence using a deep learning segmentation pipeline.
METHOD
A dataset of 200 liver MRI with a non-contrast 3 mm T1-vibe Dixon sequence was manually labeledslice-by-sliceby an expert for Couinaud liver segments, while portal and hepatic veins were labeled separately. A convolutional neural networkwas trainedusing 170 liver MRI for training and 30 for evaluation. Liver segmental volumes without liver vessels were retrieved and LSVR was calculated as the liver segmental volumes I-III divided by the liver segmental volumes IV-VIII. LSVR was compared with the expert manual LSVR calculation and the LSVR calculated on CT scans in 30 patients with CT and MRI within 6 months.
RESULTS
Theconvolutional neural networkclassified the Couinaud segments I-VIII with an average Dice score of 0.770 ± 0.03, ranging between 0.726 ± 0.13 (segment IVb) and 0.810 ± 0.09 (segment V). The calculated mean LSVR with liver MRI unseen by the model was 0.32 ± 0.14, as compared with manually quantified LSVR of 0.33 ± 0.15, resulting in a mean absolute error (MAE) of 0.02. A comparable LSVR of 0.35 ± 0.14 with a MAE of 0.04 resulted with the LSRV retrieved from the CT scans. The automated LSVR showed significant correlation with the manual MRI LSVR (Spearman r = 0.97, p < 0.001) and CT LSVR (Spearman r = 0.95, p < 0.001).
CONCLUSIONS
A convolutional neural network allowed for accurate automated liver segmental volume quantification and calculation of LSVR based on a non-contrast T1-vibe Dixon sequence.
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