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@ARTICLE{Gutsche:1010425,
author = {Gutsche, Robin and Lowis, Carsten and Ziemons, Karl and
Kocher, Martin and Ceccon, Garry and Brambilla, Cláudia
Régio and Shah, Nadim J and Langen, Karl-Josef and
Galldiks, Norbert and Isensee, Fabian and Lohmann, Philipp},
title = {{A}utomated {B}rain {T}umor {D}etection and {S}egmentation
for {T}reatment {R}esponse {A}ssessment {U}sing {A}mino
{A}cid {PET}.},
journal = {Journal of nuclear medicine},
volume = {64},
number = {10},
issn = {0097-9058},
address = {New York, NY},
publisher = {Soc.},
reportid = {FZJ-2023-03049},
pages = {-},
year = {2023},
abstract = {Evaluation of metabolic tumor volume (MTV) changes using
amino acid PET has become an important tool for response
assessment in brain tumor patients. MTV is usually
determined by manual or semiautomatic delineation, which is
laborious and may be prone to intra- and interobserver
variability. The goal of our study was to develop a method
for automated MTV segmentation and to evaluate its
performance for response assessment in patients with
gliomas. Methods: In total, 699 amino acid PET scans using
the tracer O-(2-[18F]fluoroethyl)-l-tyrosine (18F-FET) from
555 brain tumor patients at initial diagnosis or during
follow-up were retrospectively evaluated (mainly glioma
patients, $76\%).$ 18F-FET PET MTVs were segmented
semiautomatically by experienced readers. An artificial
neural network (no new U-Net) was configured on 476 scans
from 399 patients, and the network performance was evaluated
on a test dataset including 223 scans from 156 patients.
Surface and volumetric Dice similarity coefficients (DSCs)
were used to evaluate segmentation quality. Finally, the
network was applied to a recently published 18F-FET PET
study on response assessment in glioblastoma patients
treated with adjuvant temozolomide chemotherapy for a fully
automated response assessment in comparison to an
experienced physician. Results: In the test dataset, $92\%$
of lesions with increased uptake (n = 189) and $85\%$ of
lesions with iso- or hypometabolic uptake (n = 33) were
correctly identified (F1 score, $92\%).$ Single lesions with
a contiguous uptake had the highest DSC, followed by lesions
with heterogeneous, noncontiguous uptake and multifocal
lesions (surface DSC: 0.96, 0.93, and 0.81 respectively;
volume DSC: 0.83, 0.77, and 0.67, respectively). Change in
MTV, as detected by the automated segmentation, was a
significant determinant of disease-free and overall
survival, in agreement with the physician's assessment.
Conclusion: Our deep learning-based 18F-FET PET segmentation
allows reliable, robust, and fully automated evaluation of
MTV in brain tumor patients and demonstrates clinical value
for automated response assessment.},
keywords = {AI (Other) / FET PET (Other) / artificial intelligence
(Other) / machine learning (Other) / neurooncology (Other) /
volumetry (Other)},
cin = {INM-4 / INM-11 / INM-3 / JARA-BRAIN},
ddc = {610},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)INM-4-20090406 / I:(DE-Juel1)INM-11-20170113 /
I:(DE-Juel1)INM-3-20090406 / $I:(DE-82)080010_20140620$},
pnm = {5253 - Neuroimaging (POF4-525) / DFG project 428090865 -
Radiomics basierend auf MRT und Aminosäure PET in der
Neuroonkologie (428090865) / DFG project 491111487 -
Open-Access-Publikationskosten / 2022 - 2024 /
Forschungszentrum Jülich (OAPKFZJ) (491111487)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-5253 / G:(GEPRIS)428090865 /
G:(GEPRIS)491111487},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
pubmed = {pmid:37562802},
doi = {10.2967/jnumed.123.265725},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/1010425},
}