A multi-view fusion lightweight network for CRSwNPs prediction on CT images.

Journal: BMC medical imaging
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Abstract

Accurate preoperative differentiation of the chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) endotype between eosinophilic CRS (eCRS) and non-eosinophilic CRS (non-eCRS) is an important topic in predicting postoperative outcomes and administering personalized treatment. To this end, we have constructed a sinus CT dataset, which comprises CT scan data and pathological biopsy results from 192 patients of chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps (CRSwNP), treated at the Second Affiliated Hospital of Shantou University Medical College between 2020 and 2022. To differentiate CRSwNP endotype on preoperative CT and improve efficiency at the same time, we developed a multi-view fusion model that contains a mini-architecture with each network of 10 layers by modifying the deep residual neural network. The proposed model is trained on a training set and evaluated on a test set. The multi-view deep learning fusion model achieved the area under the receiver-operating characteristics curve (AUC) of 0.991, accuracy of 0.965 and F1-Score of 0.970 in test set. We compared the performance of the mini-architecture with other lightweight networks on the same Sinus CT dataset. The experimental results demonstrate that the developed ResMini architecture contribute to competitive CRSwNP endotype identification modeling in terms of accuracy and parameter number.

Authors

  • Jisheng Zou
    College of Engineering, Shantou University, Shantou, 515063, China.
  • Yi Lyu
    School of Public Health, Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan 030000, China.
  • Yu Lin
    Research School of Computer Science, Australian National University, Canberra, 2601, ACT, Australia.
  • Yaowen Chen
    College of Engineering, Shantou University, 515063, Shantou, China.
  • Shixin Lai
    College of Engineering, Shantou University, 515063, Shantou, China.
  • Siqi Wang
    School of Mechanical Engineering and Automation, Beihang University, Beijing, 100191, People's Republic of China.
  • Xuan Zhang
  • Xiaolei Zhang
    College of Biosystems Engineering and Food Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 310058, China; Key Laboratory of on Site Processing Equipment for Agricultural Products, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, China.
  • Renhua Wu
    Department of Medical Imaging, The 2nd Affiliated Hospital, Shantou University Medical College, Shantou 515041, China.
  • Weipiao Kang
    Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Shantou University Medical College, 69 North Dongxia Road, 515041, Shantou, Guangdong, China.