Journal
JOURNAL OF MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING
Volume 50, Issue 4, Pages 1260-1267Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.26693
Keywords
deep learning; quality assessment; brain MRI; postprocessing
Funding
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke [1R56NS105857-01]
- Endowed Chair in Biomedical Engineering
- Dunn Foundation
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Background Deep learning (DL) is a promising methodology for automatic detection of abnormalities in brain MRI. Purpose To automatically evaluate the quality of multicenter structural brain MRI images using an ensemble DL model based on deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs). Study Type Retrospective. Population The study included 1064 brain images of autism patients and healthy controls from the Autism Brain Imaging Data Exchange (ABIDE) database. MRI data from 110 multiple sclerosis patients from the CombiRx study were included for independent testing. Sequence T-1-weighted MR brain images acquired at 3T. Assessment The ABIDE data were separated into training (60%), validation (20%), and testing (20%) sets. The ensemble DL model combined the results from three cascaded networks trained separately on the three MRI image planes (axial, coronal, and sagittal). Each cascaded network consists of a DCNN followed by a fully connected network. The quality of image slices from each plane was evaluated by the DCNN and the resultant image scores were combined into a volumewise quality rating using the fully connected network. The DL predicted ratings were compared with manual quality evaluation by two experts. Statistical Tests Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve, area under ROC curve (AUC), sensitivity, specificity, accuracy, and positive (PPV) and negative (NPV) predictive values. Results The AUC, sensitivity, specificity, accuracy, PPV, and NPV for image quality evaluation of the ABIDE test set using the ensemble model were 0.90, 0.77, 0.85, 0.84, 0.42, and 0.96, respectively. On the CombiRx set the same model achieved performance of 0.71, 0.41, 0.84, 0.73, 0.48, and 0.80. Data Conclusion This study demonstrated the high accuracy of DL in evaluating image quality of structural brain MRI in multicenter studies. Technical Efficacy: Stage 2 J. Magn. Reson. Imaging 2019;50:1260-1267.
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