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Klein T, Gladytz T, Millward JM, Cantow K, Hummel L, Seeliger E, Waiczies S, Lippert C, Niendorf T. Dynamic parametric MRI and deep learning: Unveiling renal pathophysiology through accurate kidney size quantification. NMR IN BIOMEDICINE 2024; 37:e5075. [PMID: 38043545 DOI: 10.1002/nbm.5075] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/17/2023] [Revised: 09/22/2023] [Accepted: 10/19/2023] [Indexed: 12/05/2023]
Abstract
Renal pathologies often manifest as alterations in kidney size, providing a valuable avenue for employing dynamic parametric MRI as a means to derive kidney size measurements for the diagnosis, treatment, and monitoring of renal disease. Furthermore, this approach holds significant potential in supporting MRI data-driven preclinical investigations into the intricate mechanisms underlying renal pathophysiology. The integration of deep learning algorithms is crucial in achieving rapid and precise segmentation of the kidney from temporally resolved parametric MRI, facilitating the use of kidney size as a meaningful (pre)clinical biomarker for renal disease. To explore this potential, we employed dynamic parametric T2 mapping of the kidney in rats in conjunction with a custom-tailored deep dilated U-Net (DDU-Net) architecture. The architecture was trained, validated, and tested on manually segmented ground truth kidney data, with benchmarking against an analytical segmentation model and a self-configuring no new U-Net. Subsequently, we applied our approach to in vivo longitudinal MRI data, incorporating interventions that emulate clinically relevant scenarios in rats. Our approach achieved high performance metrics, including a Dice coefficient of 0.98, coefficient of determination of 0.92, and a mean absolute percentage error of 1.1% compared with ground truth. The DDU-Net enabled automated and accurate quantification of acute changes in kidney size, such as aortic occlusion (-8% ± 1%), venous occlusion (5% ± 1%), furosemide administration (2% ± 1%), hypoxemia (-2% ± 1%), and contrast agent-induced acute kidney injury (11% ± 1%). This approach can potentially be instrumental for the development of dynamic parametric MRI-based tools for kidney disorders, offering unparalleled insights into renal pathophysiology.
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Affiliation(s)
- Tobias Klein
- Berlin Ultrahigh Field Facility (B.U.F.F.), Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association, Berlin, Germany
- Digital Health - Machine Learning Research Group, Hasso Plattner Institute for Digital Engineering, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
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- Berlin Ultrahigh Field Facility (B.U.F.F.), Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association, Berlin, Germany
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- Berlin Ultrahigh Field Facility (B.U.F.F.), Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association, Berlin, Germany
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- Institute of Translational Physiology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany
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- Institute of Translational Physiology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany
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- Institute of Translational Physiology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany
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- Berlin Ultrahigh Field Facility (B.U.F.F.), Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association, Berlin, Germany
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- Digital Health - Machine Learning Research Group, Hasso Plattner Institute for Digital Engineering, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
- Hasso Plattner Institute for Digital Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York City, New York, USA
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- Berlin Ultrahigh Field Facility (B.U.F.F.), Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association, Berlin, Germany
- Experimental and Clinical Research Center, a joint cooperation between the Charité Medical Faculty and the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany
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Wu M, Zhang JL. MR Perfusion Imaging for Kidney Disease. Magn Reson Imaging Clin N Am 2024; 32:161-170. [PMID: 38007278 DOI: 10.1016/j.mric.2023.09.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2023]
Abstract
Renal perfusion reflects overall function of a kidney. As an important indicator of kidney diseases, renal perfusion can be noninvasively measured by multiple methods of MR imaging, such as dynamic contrast-enhanced MR imaging, intravoxel incoherent motion analysis, and arterial spin labeling method. In this article we introduce the principle of the methods, review their recent technical improvements, and then focus on summarizing recent applications of the methods in assessing various renal diseases. By this review, we demonstrate the capability and clinical potential of the imaging methods, with the hope of accelerating their adoption to clinical practice.
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- Mingyan Wu
- Central Research Institute, UIH Group, Shanghai, China; School of Biomedical Engineering Building, Room 409, 393 Huaxia Middle Road, Shanghai 201210, China
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- School of Biomedical Engineering, ShanghaiTech University, Room 409, School of Biomedical Engineering Building, 393 Huaxia Middle Road, Shanghai 201210, China.
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Oyarzun-Domeño A, Cia I, Echeverria-Chasco R, Fernández-Seara MA, Martin-Moreno PL, Garcia-Fernandez N, Bastarrika G, Navallas J, Villanueva A. A deep learning image analysis method for renal perfusion estimation in pseudo-continuous arterial spin labelling MRI. Magn Reson Imaging 2023; 104:39-51. [PMID: 37776961 DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2023.09.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2023] [Revised: 08/10/2023] [Accepted: 09/25/2023] [Indexed: 10/02/2023]
Abstract
Accurate segmentation of renal tissues is an essential step for renal perfusion estimation and postoperative assessment of the allograft. Images are usually manually labeled, which is tedious and prone to human error. We present an image analysis method for the automatic estimation of renal perfusion based on perfusion magnetic resonance imaging. Specifically, non-contrasted pseudo-continuous arterial spin labeling (PCASL) images are used for kidney transplant evaluation and perfusion estimation, as a biomarker of the status of the allograft. The proposed method uses machine/deep learning tools for the segmentation and classification of renal cortical and medullary tissues and automates the estimation of perfusion values. Data from 16 transplant patients has been used for the experiments. The automatic analysis of differentiated tissues within the kidney, such as cortex and medulla, is performed by employing the time-intensity-curves of non-contrasted T1-weighted MRI series. Specifically, using the Dice similarity coefficient as a figure of merit, results above 93%, 92% and 82% are obtained for whole kidney, cortex, and medulla, respectively. Besides, estimated cortical and medullary perfusion values are considered to be within the acceptable ranges within clinical practice.
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- Anne Oyarzun-Domeño
- Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering, Public University of Navarre, 31006 Pamplona, Spain; IdiSNA, Health Research Institute of Navarra, 31008, Spain.
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- Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering, Public University of Navarre, 31006 Pamplona, Spain.
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- IdiSNA, Health Research Institute of Navarra, 31008, Spain; Department of Radiology, Clínica Universidad de Navarra, 31008 Pamplona, Spain.
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- IdiSNA, Health Research Institute of Navarra, 31008, Spain; Department of Radiology, Clínica Universidad de Navarra, 31008 Pamplona, Spain.
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- IdiSNA, Health Research Institute of Navarra, 31008, Spain; Department of Nephrology, Clínica Universidad de Navarra, 31008 Pamplona, Spain.
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- IdiSNA, Health Research Institute of Navarra, 31008, Spain; Department of Nephrology, Clínica Universidad de Navarra, 31008 Pamplona, Spain.
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- IdiSNA, Health Research Institute of Navarra, 31008, Spain; Department of Radiology, Clínica Universidad de Navarra, 31008 Pamplona, Spain.
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- Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering, Public University of Navarre, 31006 Pamplona, Spain; IdiSNA, Health Research Institute of Navarra, 31008, Spain.
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- Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering, Public University of Navarre, 31006 Pamplona, Spain; IdiSNA, Health Research Institute of Navarra, 31008, Spain; Institute of Smart Cities (ISC), Health Research Institute of Navarra, 31006, Pamplona, Spain.
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