This study aims to use radiomics analysis and deep learning approaches for seizure focus detection in pediatric patients with temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE). Ten positron emission tomograph (PET) radiomics features related to pediatric temporal bole epilepsy are extracted and modelled, and the Siamese network is trained to automatically locate epileptogenic zones for assistance of diagnosis.
Purpose:The key to successful epilepsy control involves locating epileptogenic focus before treatment. 18F-FDG PET has been considered as a powerful neuroimaging technology used by physicians to assess patients for epilepsy. However, imaging quality, viewing angles, and experiences may easily degrade the consistency in epilepsy diagnosis. In this work, the investigators develop a framework that combines radiomics analysis and deep learning techniques to a computer-assisted diagnosis (CAD) method to detect epileptic foci of pediatric patients with temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) using PET images. Methods:Ten PET radiomics features related to pediatric temporal bole epilepsy are first extracted and modelled. Then a neural network called Siamese network is trained to quanti-fy the asymmetricity and automatically locate epileptic focus for diagnosis.The performance of the proposed framework was tested and compared with both the state-of-art clinician software tool and human physicians with different levels of experiences to validate the accuracy and consistency.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
201
Department of Nuclear Medicine and PET/CT Center, The Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University
Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
The 'area under curve' (AUC ) of our model in detection performance
To evaluate the performance of our model, the investigators calculated the AUC of our model for normal or abnormal classification campared with different methods and and physicians with different levels.
Time frame: Through study completion, about 1 year
The 'dice similarity coefficient' (DSC) of our model in detection performance
The accuracy of focus lesion detection is quantitatively measured through the metric of 'dice similarity coefficient' (DSC) by comparing the spatial overlap between the marked regions between the reference standard and the subject method under test.
Time frame: Through study completion, about 3 months
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