Abdominal radiology (New York) · 2025
Analysis of deep learning-based segmentation of lymph nodes on full-dose and reduced-dose body CT.
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Bloom Lindsey H, Mathai Tejas Sudharshan, Liu Bohan, Khoury Brandon, Patel Naiya, Wei Olivia, Balamuralikrishna Praveen T S, Hou Benjamin, Solomon Justin, Pucar Darko, Samei Ehsan, Jones Elizabeth C, Summers Ronald M
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OBJECTIVES: The performance of fully automated deep learning-based models for the detection and segmentation of lymph nodes (LNs) on full- and simulated reduced-dose CT was validated.
METHODS: A total of 15,341 LNs were annotated in 151 patient CTs (age 52 ± 14 years, 87 males) from the public TCIA NIH CT Lymph Nodes dataset. Two 3D nnU-Net models were trained on 90 CT scans: (1) only full dose CTs (NoAugmentation), and (2) both full- and reduced-dose CTs (Augmentation). Dose reduction from 75% to 5% of the full-dose was simulated using a noise-addition tool. Performance was validated on the remaining 61 CTs and an external TCIA Mediastinal LNQ dataset (120 CTs, 64 females).
RESULTS: On 61 full-dose CTs, the Augmentation model detected all LNs with 67.3% precision and 84.6% sensitivity. For all LNs and large nodes (short axis diameter ≥ 8 mm), Dice Similarity Coefficient (DSC) was 0.83 ± 0.07 and 0.80 ± 0.14, while Hausdorff Distance (HD) error was 1.47 ± 0.91 mm and 3.2 ± 2.28 mm, respectively. Performance decreased with dose reduction (p < 0.01), reaching 73.8% detection sensitivity and 0.75 DSC at 5% dose. Statistically significant differences between Augmentation vs. NoAugmentation models were seen for all nodes (p < 0.001) and small nodes (p < 0.05) at 10% and 5% doses. On the external LNQ dataset, the Augmentation model attained a DSC of 0.76 ± 0.12 and HD of 4.7 ± 3.23 (p < 0.01) for all LNs.
CONCLUSION: Degraded image quality impacted nodal delineation on reduced-dose CT. Performance improved when a model trained on both full- and reduced-dose CTs was used.
METHODS: A total of 15,341 LNs were annotated in 151 patient CTs (age 52 ± 14 years, 87 males) from the public TCIA NIH CT Lymph Nodes dataset. Two 3D nnU-Net models were trained on 90 CT scans: (1) only full dose CTs (NoAugmentation), and (2) both full- and reduced-dose CTs (Augmentation). Dose reduction from 75% to 5% of the full-dose was simulated using a noise-addition tool. Performance was validated on the remaining 61 CTs and an external TCIA Mediastinal LNQ dataset (120 CTs, 64 females).
RESULTS: On 61 full-dose CTs, the Augmentation model detected all LNs with 67.3% precision and 84.6% sensitivity. For all LNs and large nodes (short axis diameter ≥ 8 mm), Dice Similarity Coefficient (DSC) was 0.83 ± 0.07 and 0.80 ± 0.14, while Hausdorff Distance (HD) error was 1.47 ± 0.91 mm and 3.2 ± 2.28 mm, respectively. Performance decreased with dose reduction (p < 0.01), reaching 73.8% detection sensitivity and 0.75 DSC at 5% dose. Statistically significant differences between Augmentation vs. NoAugmentation models were seen for all nodes (p < 0.001) and small nodes (p < 0.05) at 10% and 5% doses. On the external LNQ dataset, the Augmentation model attained a DSC of 0.76 ± 0.12 and HD of 4.7 ± 3.23 (p < 0.01) for all LNs.
CONCLUSION: Degraded image quality impacted nodal delineation on reduced-dose CT. Performance improved when a model trained on both full- and reduced-dose CTs was used.