Journal
MAGNETIC RESONANCE IN MEDICINE
Volume 79, Issue 3, Pages 1696-1707Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.26806
Keywords
renal segmentation; machine learning; glomerular filtration rate; dynamic contrast enhanced MRI
Funding
- NIBIB NIH HHS [R01 EB009690, P41 EB015891] Funding Source: Medline
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PurposeTo introduce and evaluate a fully automated renal segmentation technique for glomerular filtration rate (GFR) assessment in children. MethodsAn image segmentation method based on iterative graph cuts (GrabCut) was modified to work on time-resolved 3D dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI data sets. A random forest classifier was trained to further segment the renal tissue into cortex, medulla, and the collecting system. The algorithm was tested on 26 subjects and the segmentation results were compared to the manually drawn segmentation maps using the F1-score metric. A two-compartment model was used to estimate the GFR of each subject using both automatically and manually generated segmentation maps. ResultsSegmentation maps generated automatically showed high similarity to the manually drawn maps for the whole-kidney (F1=0.93) and renal cortex (F1=0.86). GFR estimations using whole-kidney segmentation maps from the automatic method were highly correlated (Spearman's =0.99) to the GFR values obtained from manual maps. The mean GFR estimation error of the automatic method was 2.980.66% with an average segmentation time of 45 s per patient. ConclusionThe automatic segmentation method performs as well as the manual segmentation for GFR estimation and reduces the segmentation time from several hours to 45 s. Magn Reson Med 79:1696-1707, 2018. (c) 2017 International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine.
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