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ArticleHuman brain mapping2023

Semisupervised white matter hyperintensities segmentation on MRI.

Fan Huang, Peng Xia, Varut Vardhanabhuti, Sai-Kam Hui, Kui-Kai Lau, Henry Ka-Fung Mak, Peng Cao

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7 authors.

Fan HuangDepartment of Diagnostic Radiology, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
Peng XiaDepartment of Diagnostic Radiology, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.ORCID 0000-0003-3113-7408
Varut VardhanabhutiDepartment of Diagnostic Radiology, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
Sai-Kam HuiDepartment of Rehabilitation Science, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China.
Kui-Kai LauDepartment of Medicine, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
Henry Ka-Fung MakDepartment of Diagnostic Radiology, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.ORCID 0000-0002-2007-0650
Peng CaoDepartment of Diagnostic Radiology, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.ORCID 0000-0002-1116-1171

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This study proposed a semisupervised loss function named level-set loss (LSLoss) for cerebral white matter hyperintensities (WMHs) segmentation on fluid-attenuated inversion recovery images. The training procedure did not require manually labeled WMH masks. Our image preprocessing steps included biased field correction, skull stripping, and white matter segmentation. With the proposed LSLoss, we trained a V-Net using the MRI images from both local and public databases. Local databases were the small vessel disease cohort (HKU-SVD, n = 360) and the multiple sclerosis cohort (HKU-MS, n = 20) from our institutional imaging center. Public databases were the Medical Image Computing Computer-assisted Intervention (MICCAI) WMH challenge database (MICCAI-WMH, n = 60) and the normal control cohort of the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative database (ADNI-CN, n = 15). We achieved an overall dice similarity coefficient (DSC) of 0.81 on the HKU-SVD testing set (n = 20), DSC = 0.77 on the HKU-MS testing set (n = 5), and DSC = 0.78 on MICCAI-WMH testing set (n = 30). The segmentation results obtained by our semisupervised V-Net were comparable with the supervised methods and outperformed the unsupervised methods in the literature.

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Alzheimer DiseaseWhite MatterBrainHumansImage Processing, Computer-AssistedMagnetic Resonance ImagingNeuroimagingSkullbrain MRIconvolutional neural networksdeep learningsegmentationsemisupervised learningsmall vessel diseaseswhite matter hyperintensities

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PMCPMC9921214

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