DeepPVC: prediction of a partial volume-corrected map for brain positron emission tomography studies via a deep convolutional neural network. 2022

Keisuke Matsubara, and Masanobu Ibaraki, and Toshibumi Kinoshita, and
Department of Management Science and Engineering, Faculty of System Science and Technology, Akita Prefectural University, 84-4 Aza Ebinokuchi Tsuchiya, Yurihonjo, 015-0055, Japan. matsubara@akita-pu.ac.jp.

BACKGROUND Partial volume correction with anatomical magnetic resonance (MR) images (MR-PVC) is useful for accurately quantifying tracer uptake on brain positron emission tomography (PET) images. However, MR segmentation processes for MR-PVC are time-consuming and prevent the widespread clinical use of MR-PVC. Here, we aimed to develop a deep learning model to directly predict PV-corrected maps from PET and MR images, ultimately improving the MR-PVC throughput. METHODS We used MR T1-weighted and [11C]PiB PET images as input data from 192 participants from the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative database. We calculated PV-corrected maps as the training target using the region-based voxel-wise PVC method. Two-dimensional U-Net model was trained and validated by sixfold cross-validation with the dataset from the 156 participants, and then tested using MR T1-weighted and [11C]PiB PET images from 36 participants acquired at sites other than the training dataset. We calculated the structural similarity index (SSIM) of the PV-corrected maps and intraclass correlation (ICC) of the PV-corrected standardized uptake value between the region-based voxel-wise (RBV) PVC and deepPVC as indicators for validation and testing. RESULTS A high SSIM (0.884 ± 0.021) and ICC (0.921 ± 0.042) were observed in the validation and test data (SSIM, 0.876 ± 0.028; ICC, 0.894 ± 0.051). The computation time required to predict a PV-corrected map for a participant (48 s without a graphics processing unit) was much shorter than that for the RBV PVC and MR segmentation processes. CONCLUSIONS These results suggest that the deepPVC model directly predicts PV-corrected maps from MR and PET images and improves the throughput of MR-PVC by skipping the MR segmentation processes.

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