期刊
KIDNEY INTERNATIONAL
卷 99, 期 3, 页码 763-766出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.kint.2020.07.040
关键词
deep learning; murine; polycystic kidney disease; segmentation; similarity metrics; total kidney volume
资金
- Mayo Clinic Robert M. and Billie Kelley Pirnie Translational Polycystic Kidney Disease Center
- National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases [P30DK090728, K01DK110136]
The study validated a fully automated total kidney volume measurement method for pre-clinical rodent trials, which is fast, accurate, reproducible, and provided these resources to the research community. The method showed comparable performance to manual segmentations in terms of similarity metrics and longitudinal analysis, making it suitable for longitudinal, pre-clinical trials involving the segmentation of rodent kidneys in T2-weighted MRIs.
The objective of this study was to validate a fully automated total kidney volume measurement method for pre-clinical rodent trials that is fast, accurate, reproducible, and to provide these resources to the research community. Rodent studies that involve imaging are crucial for monitoring treatment efficacy in diseases such as polycystic kidney disease. Previous studies utilize manual or semi-automated segmentations, which are time consuming and potentially biased. To develop our automated system, a total of 150 axial magnetic resonance images (MRI) from a variety of mouse models were manually segmented and used to train/validate an automated algorithm. To test the longitudinal application of the model, four mutant and four wild-type mice were imaged sequentially over three to twelve weeks via MRI. Segmentations of the kidneys (excluding the renal pelvis) were generated by the automated method and two different readers, with one reader repeating the measurements. Similarity metrics and longitudinal analysis were calculated to assess the performance of the automated compared to the manual methods. The automated approach required no user input, besides a final visual quality control step. Similarity metrics of the automated method versus the manual segmentations were on par with inter- and intra-reader comparisons. Thus, our fully automated approach described here can be safely used in longitudinal, pre-clinical trials that involve the segmentation of rodent kidneys in T2-weighted MRIs.
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