Automatic Multiparametric Magnetic Resonance Imaging‐Based Prostate Lesions Assessment with Unsupervised Domain Adaptation

Multiparametric magnetic resonance imaging (mpMRI) has emerged as a valuable diagnostic tool in prostate lesion assessment. However, training convolutional neural networks (CNNs) inevitably involves magnetic resonance (MR) images from multiple cohorts. There always exists variation in scanning proto...

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Main Authors: Jing Dai, Xiaomei Wang, Yingqi Li, Zhiyu Liu, Yui-Lun Ng, Jiaren Xiao, Joe King Man Fan, James Lam, Qi Dou, Varut Vardhanabhuti, Ka-Wai Kwok
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Language:English
Published: Wiley 2023-09-01
Series:Advanced Intelligent Systems
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1002/aisy.202200246
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author Jing Dai
Xiaomei Wang
Yingqi Li
Zhiyu Liu
Yui-Lun Ng
Jiaren Xiao
Joe King Man Fan
James Lam
Qi Dou
Varut Vardhanabhuti
Ka-Wai Kwok
author_facet Jing Dai
Xiaomei Wang
Yingqi Li
Zhiyu Liu
Yui-Lun Ng
Jiaren Xiao
Joe King Man Fan
James Lam
Qi Dou
Varut Vardhanabhuti
Ka-Wai Kwok
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description Multiparametric magnetic resonance imaging (mpMRI) has emerged as a valuable diagnostic tool in prostate lesion assessment. However, training convolutional neural networks (CNNs) inevitably involves magnetic resonance (MR) images from multiple cohorts. There always exists variation in scanning protocol among cohorts, inducing significant changes in data distribution between source and target domains. This challenge has greatly limited clinical adoption on a large scale. Herein, a coarse mask‐guided deep domain adaptation network (CMD2A‐Net) is proposed to develop a fully automated framework for prostate lesion detection and classification (PLDC). No category or mask label is required from the target domain. A coarse segmentation module is trained to cover the possible lesion‐related regions, so that attention maps can be generated to dedicate the local feature extraction of lesions within those regions. Experiments are performed on 512 mpMRI sets from datasets of PROSTATEx (330 sets) and two cohorts, A (74 sets) and B (108 sets). Using ensemble learning, CMD2A‐Net accomplishes an AUC of 0.921 in cohort A and 0.913 in cohort B, demonstrating its transferability from a large‐scale public dataset PROSTATEx to small‐scale target domains. Results from an ablation study also support its effectiveness in classification between benign and malignant lesions, compared to the state‐of‐the‐art models. An interactive preprint version of the article can be found here: https://doi.org/10.22541/au.166081031.11420810/v1.
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spelling doaj.art-983e13490619470db7d7ca6e308e259f2023-09-23T07:09:23ZengWileyAdvanced Intelligent Systems2640-45672023-09-0159n/an/a10.1002/aisy.202200246Automatic Multiparametric Magnetic Resonance Imaging‐Based Prostate Lesions Assessment with Unsupervised Domain AdaptationJing Dai0Xiaomei Wang1Yingqi Li2Zhiyu Liu3Yui-Lun Ng4Jiaren Xiao5Joe King Man Fan6James Lam7Qi Dou8Varut Vardhanabhuti9Ka-Wai Kwok10Department of Mechanical Engineering The University of Hong Kong Hong Kong 999077 ChinaDepartment of Mechanical Engineering The University of Hong Kong Hong Kong 999077 ChinaDepartment of Mechanical Engineering The University of Hong Kong Hong Kong 999077 ChinaDepartment of Mechanical Engineering The University of Hong Kong Hong Kong 999077 ChinaDepartment of Mechanical Engineering The University of Hong Kong Hong Kong 999077 ChinaDepartment of Mechanical Engineering The University of Hong Kong Hong Kong 999077 ChinaDepartment of Surgery The University of Hong Kong-Shenzhen Hospital Shenzhen Guangdong 518000 ChinaDepartment of Mechanical Engineering The University of Hong Kong Hong Kong 999077 ChinaDepartment of Computer Science and Engineering The Chinese University of Hong Kong Hong Kong 999077 ChinaDepartment of Diagnostic Radiology The University of Hong Kong Hong Kong 999077 ChinaDepartment of Mechanical Engineering The University of Hong Kong Hong Kong 999077 ChinaMultiparametric magnetic resonance imaging (mpMRI) has emerged as a valuable diagnostic tool in prostate lesion assessment. However, training convolutional neural networks (CNNs) inevitably involves magnetic resonance (MR) images from multiple cohorts. There always exists variation in scanning protocol among cohorts, inducing significant changes in data distribution between source and target domains. This challenge has greatly limited clinical adoption on a large scale. Herein, a coarse mask‐guided deep domain adaptation network (CMD2A‐Net) is proposed to develop a fully automated framework for prostate lesion detection and classification (PLDC). No category or mask label is required from the target domain. A coarse segmentation module is trained to cover the possible lesion‐related regions, so that attention maps can be generated to dedicate the local feature extraction of lesions within those regions. Experiments are performed on 512 mpMRI sets from datasets of PROSTATEx (330 sets) and two cohorts, A (74 sets) and B (108 sets). Using ensemble learning, CMD2A‐Net accomplishes an AUC of 0.921 in cohort A and 0.913 in cohort B, demonstrating its transferability from a large‐scale public dataset PROSTATEx to small‐scale target domains. Results from an ablation study also support its effectiveness in classification between benign and malignant lesions, compared to the state‐of‐the‐art models. An interactive preprint version of the article can be found here: https://doi.org/10.22541/au.166081031.11420810/v1.https://doi.org/10.1002/aisy.202200246convolutional neural networksdomain adaptationmultiparametric magnetic resonance imaging (mpMRI)prostate lesion detection and classification
spellingShingle Jing Dai
Xiaomei Wang
Yingqi Li
Zhiyu Liu
Yui-Lun Ng
Jiaren Xiao
Joe King Man Fan
James Lam
Qi Dou
Varut Vardhanabhuti
Ka-Wai Kwok
Automatic Multiparametric Magnetic Resonance Imaging‐Based Prostate Lesions Assessment with Unsupervised Domain Adaptation
Advanced Intelligent Systems
convolutional neural networks
domain adaptation
multiparametric magnetic resonance imaging (mpMRI)
prostate lesion detection and classification
title Automatic Multiparametric Magnetic Resonance Imaging‐Based Prostate Lesions Assessment with Unsupervised Domain Adaptation
title_full Automatic Multiparametric Magnetic Resonance Imaging‐Based Prostate Lesions Assessment with Unsupervised Domain Adaptation
title_fullStr Automatic Multiparametric Magnetic Resonance Imaging‐Based Prostate Lesions Assessment with Unsupervised Domain Adaptation
title_full_unstemmed Automatic Multiparametric Magnetic Resonance Imaging‐Based Prostate Lesions Assessment with Unsupervised Domain Adaptation
title_short Automatic Multiparametric Magnetic Resonance Imaging‐Based Prostate Lesions Assessment with Unsupervised Domain Adaptation
title_sort automatic multiparametric magnetic resonance imaging based prostate lesions assessment with unsupervised domain adaptation
topic convolutional neural networks
domain adaptation
multiparametric magnetic resonance imaging (mpMRI)
prostate lesion detection and classification
url https://doi.org/10.1002/aisy.202200246
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