A deep learning knowledge distillation framework using knee MRI and arthroscopy data for meniscus tear detection.

Journal: Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology
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Abstract

To construct a deep learning knowledge distillation framework exploring the utilization of MRI alone or combing with distilled Arthroscopy information for meniscus tear detection. A database of 199 paired knee Arthroscopy-MRI exams was used to develop a multimodal teacher network and an MRI-based student network, which used residual neural networks architectures. A knowledge distillation framework comprising the multimodal teacher network and the monomodal student network was proposed. We optimized the loss functions of mean squared error (MSE) and cross-entropy (CE) to enable the student network to learn arthroscopic information from the teacher network through our deep learning knowledge distillation framework, ultimately resulting in a distilled student network . A coronal proton density (PD)-weighted fat-suppressed MRI sequence was used in this study. Fivefold cross-validation was employed, and the accuracy, sensitivity, specificity, F1-score, receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves and area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) were used to evaluate the medial and lateral meniscal tears detection performance of the models, including the undistilled student model , the distilled student model and the teacher model . The AUCs of the undistilled student model , the distilled student model , the teacher model for medial meniscus (MM) tear detection and lateral meniscus (LM) tear detection are 0.773/0.672, 0.792/0.751 and 0.834/0.746, respectively. The distilled student model had higher AUCs than the undistilled model . After undergoing knowledge distillation processing, the distilled student model demonstrated promising results, with accuracy (0.764/0.734), sensitivity (0.838/0.661), and F1-score (0.680/0.754) for both medial and lateral tear detection better than the undistilled one with accuracy (0.734/0.648), sensitivity (0.733/0.607), and F1-score (0.620/0.673). Through the knowledge distillation framework, the student model based on MRI benefited from the multimodal teacher model and achieved an improved meniscus tear detection performance.

Authors

  • Mengjie Ying
    Department of Orthopedics, Shanghai Sixth People's Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.
  • Yufan Wang
    Engineering Research Center for Digital Medicine of the Ministry of Education, Shanghai, China.
  • Kai Yang
    Department of Radiology, Shanghai Sixth People's Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.
  • Haoyuan Wang
    Department of Orthopedics, Shanghai Sixth People's Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.
  • Xudong Liu
    Department of Orthopedics, Shanghai Sixth People's Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.

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