Texture analysis based on U-Net neural network for intracranial hemorrhage identification predicts early enlargement
Introduction
In recent years, the incidence of cerebrovascular diseases has increased year by year, among which cerebral hemorrhage is one of the most common symptoms [[1], [2], [3]]. Cerebral hemorrhage condition is critical, mainly in the middle-aged and elderly population, with the characteristics of disability, high fatality rate, and poor prognosis, which poses a severe threat to patients' life and health [4]. The incidence of early enlargement of intracerebral hemorrhage is 33%, which often indicates poor prognosis, with a fatality rate of up to 30% [5]. Effective prediction of the early expansion of spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage has always been a challenging clinical problem.
With the continuous development and progress of modern medical detection methods, computed tomography (CT) imaging has played an increasingly important role in examining and treating cerebral hemorrhage due to its fast, accurate, and non-invasive characteristics [6,7]. However, the wide application of CT imaging has brought burdens to doctors and convenience to patients. For the diagnosis of cerebral hemorrhage, it has not proposed a machine measurement and calculation model, only by doctors based on experience to do qualitative analysis. Analyzing and reading a large amount of two-dimensional CT image data will cost doctors a lot of time and energy, and doctors with different seniority have different diagnosis and treatment levels, leading to the possibility of missed diagnosis and misdiagnosis in artificial diagnosis [5].
As an effective means of big data processing, artificial intelligence, especially deep learning, has been widely used in medical imaging research. The relevant deep learning algorithm represented by convolutional neural network and adversarial generation network is widely used in medical image annotation, feature classification, diagnosis and prediction, lesion location, medical image segmentation, medical image synthesis, medical image super-resolution reconstruction, and other directions [[8], [9], [10]]. In recent years, scholars at home and abroad have proposed the idea that hematoma has density heterogeneity. Based on baseline CT, some semi-quantitative imaging predictors have been proposed, but all of them have limitations of varying degrees. Radioomics is a new imaging post-processing method that extracts many image features from the image images and converts the image images into high-resolution. It excavates spatial data through high-throughput quantitative analysis. At present, it is mainly used in the study of tumor heterogeneity [11,12]. This study attempts to adopt the radiology method, based on the accurate identification of cerebral hemorrhage lesions by the U-Net neural network model, to quantitatively study the heterogeneity of cerebral hematoma through texture analysis, aiming to provide a more objective and sensitive prediction method for clinical practice.
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General data
From January 2020 to January 2021, 54 patients with hypertensive intracerebral hemorrhage admitted to the Second Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University were selected, including 36 males and 18 females, aged from 15 to 83 years old. Inclusion criteria: (1) history of hypertension; (2) clinical symptoms and signs are consistent with spontaneous cerebral hemorrhage; (3) the first CT scan was performed within six h after onset, and the second CT scan was performed within the nest 48 h; (4)
Incidence of hematoma enlargement
In 54 patients with intracranial hemorrhage, 18 cases of hematoma increased significantly, the occurrence rate was 33.3%. There were 11 males and 7 females paients in the enlarged group (54.7±15.2 years). The remaining 36 patients had no obvious changes in hematoma. There were 25 males and 11 females in the negative group (62.5±17.1 years).
Comparison of general data between the two groups
Except that there were statistically significant differences in Glasgow score, time of first CT examination, and hematoma volume between the two groups (P
Discussion
Scholars have tried to find the risk factors for the early expansion of hypertensive cerebral hemorrhage from the first CT scan in recent years. For morphology in the first CT scan, the hematoma volume > 30 ml, the irregular shape, and uneven density (mixed density, black holes, whirlpool sign) may indicate the early expansion. However, sensitivity and specialty rate is low and have too much subjectivity. The prediction of "point" sign in CTA is more accurate. However, due to contrast agent
Conclusions
In conclusion, this study confirmed that the CT texture analysis method could predict the expansion of cerebral hemorrhage. The parameters of gray level co-occurrence matrix and gray level run matrix under Mi dimensionality reduction have the most significant predictive value. The shortcoming of this study is that the sample size is not large enough. In the future, the sample size will be gradually increased, and more methods will be tried to enrich the study. It is hoped that more forces will
Statements of ethical approval
The study was approved by the Ethics Committee of The Anhui Medical University. All the participants provided their written informed consent to participate in this study.
Declaration of Competing Interest
There are no conflicts of interest to disclose for publication of this paper.
Acknowledgments
The project was funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Reference No: 81200895), and the Interdisciplinary program of Anhui Medical University.
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Yu Liu and Qiong Fang are co-first authors.