Semi-automatic Crohn’s disease severity estimation on MR imaging

Peter J. Schüffler, Dwarikanath Mahapatra, Robiel Naziroglu, Zhang Li, Carl A.J. Puylaert, Rado Andriantsimiavona, Franciscus M. Vos, Doug A. Pendsé, C. Yung Nio, Jaap Stoker, Stuart A. Taylor, Joachim M. Buhmann

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Abstract

Crohn’s disease (CD) is a chronic inflammatory bowel disease which can be visualized by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). For CD grading, several non-invasive MRI based severity scores are known, most prominent the MaRIA and AIS. As these scores rely on manual MRI readings for individual bowel segments by trained radiologists, automated MRI assessment has been more and more focused in recent research. We show on a dataset of 27 CD patients that semi-automatically measured bowel wall thickness (ABWT) and dynamic contrast enhancement (DCE) completely outperform manual scorings: the segmental correlation to the Crohn’s Disease Endoscopic Index of Severity (CDEIS) of ABWT and DCE is significantly higher (r =.78) than that of MaRIA (r =.45) or AIS (r =.51). Also on a per-patient basis, the models with ABWT and DCE show significantly higher correlation (r =.69) to global CDEIS than MaRIA (r =.46).

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAbdominal Imaging
Subtitle of host publicationComputational and Clinical Applications - 6th International Workshop, ABDI 2014 held in conjunction with MICCAI 2014
EditorsHiroyuki Yoshida, Janne J. Näppi, Sanjay Saini
PublisherSpringer - Verlag
Pages128-138
Number of pages11
ISBN (Electronic)9783319136912
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2014
Externally publishedYes
Event6th International Workshop on Abdominal Imaging: Computational and Clinical Applications, ABDI 2014 held in conjunction with 17th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2014 - Cambridge, United States
Duration: 14 Sept 201414 Sept 2014

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume8676

Conference

Conference6th International Workshop on Abdominal Imaging: Computational and Clinical Applications, ABDI 2014 held in conjunction with 17th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2014
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityCambridge
Period14/09/201414/09/2014

Keywords

  • Computer vision
  • Crohns disease
  • Crohns disease severity
  • MRI

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