Jiang Dian, Liao Jianxiang, Zhao Cailei, Zhao Xia, Lin Rongbo, Yang Jun, Li Zhi-Cheng, Zhou Yihang, Zhu Yanjie, Liang Dong, Hu Zhanqi, Wang Haifeng
Research Centre for Medical AI, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen 518000, China.
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China.
Bioengineering (Basel). 2023 Jul 22;10(7):870. doi: 10.3390/bioengineering10070870.
Multi-contrast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is wildly applied to identify tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC) children in a clinic. In this work, a deep convolutional neural network with multi-contrast MRI is proposed to diagnose pediatric TSC. Firstly, by combining T2W and FLAIR images, a new synthesis modality named FLAIR was created to enhance the contrast between TSC lesions and normal brain tissues. After that, a deep weighted fusion network (DWF-net) using a late fusion strategy is proposed to diagnose TSC children. In experiments, a total of 680 children were enrolled, including 331 healthy children and 349 TSC children. The experimental results indicate that FLAIR successfully enhances the visibility of TSC lesions and improves the classification performance. Additionally, the proposed DWF-net delivers a superior classification performance compared to previous methods, achieving an AUC of 0.998 and an accuracy of 0.985. The proposed method has the potential to be a reliable computer-aided diagnostic tool for assisting radiologists in diagnosing TSC children.
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