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ArticleBrain sciences2023

Efficient Brain Age Prediction from 3D MRI Volumes Using 2D Projections.

Johan Jönemo, Muhammad Usman Akbar, Robin Kämpe, J Paul Hamilton, Anders Eklund

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Article in Brain sciences, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Encoding 3D information in 2D feature maps for brain CT-Angiography.Computerized medical imaging and graphics : the official journal of the Computerized Medical Imaging Society · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Johan JönemoDivision of Medical Informatics, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Linköping University, 581 83 Linköping, Sweden.
Muhammad Usman AkbarDivision of Medical Informatics, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Linköping University, 581 83 Linköping, Sweden.
Robin KämpeCenter for Medical Image Science and Visualization (CMIV), Linköping University, 581 83 Linköping, Sweden.
J Paul HamiltonDepartment of Biological and Medical Psychology, University of Bergen, 5020 Bergen, Norway.
Anders EklundDivision of Medical Informatics, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Linköping University, 581 83 Linköping, Sweden.

Funding

VINNOVA 2021-01954
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Using 3D CNNs on high-resolution medical volumes is very computationally demanding, especially for large datasets like UK Biobank, which aims to scan 100,000 subjects. Here, we demonstrate that using 2D CNNs on a few 2D projections (representing mean and standard deviation across axial, sagittal and coronal slices) of 3D volumes leads to reasonable test accuracy (mean absolute error of about 3.5 years) when predicting age from brain volumes. Using our approach, one training epoch with 20,324 subjects takes 20-50 s using a single GPU, which is two orders of magnitude faster than a small 3D CNN. This speedup is explained by the fact that 3D brain volumes contain a lot of redundant information, which can be efficiently compressed using 2D projections. These results are important for researchers who do not have access to expensive GPU hardware for 3D CNNs.

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2D projections3D CNNbrain agedeep learning

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PMID37759930
PMCPMC10526282

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