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ArticleJournal of imaging informatics in medicine2025

Automated Detection of Hydrocephalus in Pediatric Head Computed Tomography Using VGG 16 CNN Deep Learning Architecture and Based Automated Segmentation Workflow for Ventricular Volume Estimation.

Hamza Sekkat, Abdellah Khallouqi, Omar El Rhazouani, Abdellah Halimi

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Hamza SekkatSciences and Engineering of Biomedicals, Biophysics and Health Laboratory, Higher Institute of Health Sciences, Hassan 1st University, Settat, 26000, Morocco. sekkat.isss@uhp.ac.ma.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0005-1530-4837
Abdellah KhallouqiSciences and Engineering of Biomedicals, Biophysics and Health Laboratory, Higher Institute of Health Sciences, Hassan 1st University, Settat, 26000, Morocco.
Omar El RhazouaniSciences and Engineering of Biomedicals, Biophysics and Health Laboratory, Higher Institute of Health Sciences, Hassan 1st University, Settat, 26000, Morocco.
Abdellah HalimiSciences and Engineering of Biomedicals, Biophysics and Health Laboratory, Higher Institute of Health Sciences, Hassan 1st University, Settat, 26000, Morocco.

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Abstract

Hydrocephalus, particularly congenital hydrocephalus in infants, remains underexplored in deep learning research. While deep learning has been widely applied to medical image analysis, few studies have specifically addressed the automated classification of hydrocephalus. This study proposes a convolutional neural network (CNN) model based on the VGG16 architecture to detect hydrocephalus in infant head CT images. The model integrates an automated method for ventricular volume extraction, applying windowing, histogram equalization, and thresholding techniques to segment the ventricles from surrounding brain structures. Morphological operations refine the segmentation and contours are extracted for visualization and volume measurement. The dataset consists of 105 head CT scans, each with 60 slices covering the ventricular volume, resulting in 6300 slices. Manual segmentation by three trained radiologists served as the reference standard. The automated method showed a high correlation with manual measurements, with R

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Cerebral VentriclesDeep LearningHydrocephalusTomography, X-Ray ComputedFemaleHumansInfantInfant, NewbornMaleNeural Networks, ComputerWorkflowComputed tomographyDeep learningHydrocephalusVentricular volumeVGG-16

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PMID40108068
PMCPMC12701175

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