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A Novel and Automated Approach to Classify Radiation Induced Lung Tissue Damage on CT Scans

Szmul, Adam; Chandy, Edward; Veiga, Catarina; Jacob, Joseph; Stavropoulou, Alkisti; Landau, David; Hiley, Crispin T; (2022) A Novel and Automated Approach to Classify Radiation Induced Lung Tissue Damage on CT Scans. Cancers , 14 (5) , Article 1341. 10.3390/cancers14051341. Green open access

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Abstract

Radiation-induced lung damage (RILD) is a common side effect of radiotherapy (RT). The ability to automatically segment, classify, and quantify different types of lung parenchymal change is essential to uncover underlying patterns of RILD and their evolution over time. A RILD dedicated tissue classification system was developed to describe lung parenchymal tissue changes on a voxel-wise level. The classification system was automated for segmentation of five lung tissue classes on computed tomography (CT) scans that described incrementally increasing tissue density, ranging from normal lung (Class 1) to consolidation (Class 5). For ground truth data generation, we employed a two-stage data annotation approach, akin to active learning. Manual segmentation was used to train a stage one auto-segmentation method. These results were manually refined and used to train the stage two auto-segmentation algorithm. The stage two auto-segmentation algorithm was an ensemble of six 2D Unets using different loss functions and numbers of input channels. The development dataset used in this study consisted of 40 cases, each with a pre-radiotherapy, 3-, 6-, 12-, and 24-month follow-up CT scans (n = 200 CT scans). The method was assessed on a hold-out test dataset of 6 cases (n = 30 CT scans). The global Dice score coefficients (DSC) achieved for each tissue class were: Class (1) 99% and 98%, Class (2) 71% and 44%, Class (3) 56% and 26%, Class (4) 79% and 47%, and Class (5) 96% and 92%, for development and test subsets, respectively. The lowest values for the test subsets were caused by imaging artefacts or reflected subgroups that occurred infrequently and with smaller overall parenchymal volumes. We performed qualitative evaluation on the test dataset presenting manual and auto-segmentation to a blinded independent radiologist to rate them as 'acceptable', 'minor disagreement' or 'major disagreement'. The auto-segmentation ratings were similar to the manual segmentation, both having approximately 90% of cases rated as acceptable. The proposed framework for auto-segmentation of different lung tissue classes produces acceptable results in the majority of cases and has the potential to facilitate future large studies of RILD.

Type: Article
Title: A Novel and Automated Approach to Classify Radiation Induced Lung Tissue Damage on CT Scans
Location: Switzerland
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.3390/cancers14051341
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.3390/cancers14051341
Language: English
Additional information: This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited
Keywords: Deep learning, lung segmentation, lung tissue classification, radiation induced lung damage
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URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10145362
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