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Spitzer, H. ; Ripart, M.* ; Fawaz, A.* ; Williams, L.Z.J.* ; Robinson, E.C.* ; Iglesias, J.E.* ; Adler, S.* ; Wagstyl, K.*

Robust and Generalisable Segmentation of Subtle Epilepsy-Causing Lesions: A Graph Convolutional Approach.

In: (Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2023). Berlin [u.a.]: Springer, 2023. 420-428 (Lect. Notes Comput. Sc. ; 14227 LNCS)
DOI
Focal cortical dysplasia (FCD) is a leading cause of drug-resistant focal epilepsy, which can be cured by surgery. These lesions are extremely subtle and often missed even by expert neuroradiologists. “Ground truth” manual lesion masks are therefore expensive, limited and have large inter-rater variability. Existing FCD detection methods are limited by high numbers of false positive predictions, primarily due to vertex- or patch-based approaches that lack whole-brain context. Here, we propose to approach the problem as semantic segmentation using graph convolutional networks (GCN), which allows our model to learn spatial relationships between brain regions. To address the specific challenges of FCD identification, our proposed model includes an auxiliary loss to predict distance from the lesion to reduce false positives and a weak supervision classification loss to facilitate learning from uncertain lesion masks. On a multi-centre dataset of 1015 participants with surface-based features and manual lesion masks from structural MRI data, the proposed GCN achieved an AUC of 0.74, a significant improvement against a previously used vertex-wise multi-layer perceptron (MLP) classifier (AUC 0.64). With sensitivity thresholded at 67%, the GCN had a specificity of 71% in comparison to 49% when using the MLP. This improvement in specificity is vital for clinical integration of lesion-detection tools into the radiological workflow, through increasing clinical confidence in the use of AI radiological adjuncts and reducing the number of areas requiring expert review.
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Publikationstyp Artikel: Konferenzbeitrag
Korrespondenzautor
Schlagwörter Graph Convolutional Network ; Lesion Segmentation ; Structural Mri
ISSN (print) / ISBN 0302-9743
e-ISSN 1611-3349
Konferenztitel Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2023
Zeitschrift Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Quellenangaben Band: 14227 LNCS, Heft: , Seiten: 420-428 Artikelnummer: , Supplement: ,
Verlag Springer
Verlagsort Berlin [u.a.]
Nichtpatentliteratur Publikationen
Institut(e) Institute of Computational Biology (ICB)
Förderungen Jack Satter Foundation
NIH
Commonwealth Scholarship Commission (United Kingdom)
Wellcome Trust
Epilepsy Research UK
Rosetrees Trust