• J Magn Reson Imaging · Oct 2019

    Accuracy of deep learning to differentiate the histopathological grading of meningiomas on MR images: A preliminary study.

    • Tommaso Banzato, Francesco Causin, Alessandro Della Puppa, Giacomo Cester, Linda Mazzai, and Alessandro Zotti.
    • Department of Animal Medicine, Productions and Health, University of Padua, Legnaro, Italy.
    • J Magn Reson Imaging. 2019 Oct 1; 50 (4): 1152-1159.

    BackgroundGrading of meningiomas is important in the choice of the most effective treatment for each patient.PurposeTo determine the diagnostic accuracy of a deep convolutional neural network (DCNN) in the differentiation of the histopathological grading of meningiomas from MR images.Study TypeRetrospective.PopulationIn all, 117 meningioma-affected patients, 79 World Health Organization [WHO] Grade I, 32 WHO Grade II, and 6 WHO Grade III.Field Strength/Sequence1.5 T, 3.0 T postcontrast enhanced T1 W (PCT1 W), apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) maps (b values of 0, 500, and 1000 s/mm2 ).AssessmentWHO Grade II and WHO Grade III meningiomas were considered a single category. The diagnostic accuracy of the pretrained Inception-V3 and AlexNet DCNNs was tested on ADC maps and PCT1 W images separately. Receiver operating characteristic curves (ROC) and area under the curve (AUC) were used to asses DCNN performance.Statistical TestLeave-one-out cross-validation.ResultsThe application of the Inception-V3 DCNN on ADC maps provided the best diagnostic accuracy results, with an AUC of 0.94 (95% confidence interval [CI], 0.88-0.98). Remarkably, only 1/38 WHO Grade II-III and 7/79 WHO Grade I lesions were misclassified by this model. The application of AlexNet on ADC maps had a low discriminating accuracy, with an AUC of 0.68 (95% CI, 0.59-0.76) and a high misclassification rate on both WHO Grade I and WHO Grade II-III cases. The discriminating accuracy of both DCNNs on postcontrast T1 W images was low, with Inception-V3 displaying an AUC of 0.68 (95% CI, 0.59-0.76) and AlexNet displaying an AUC of 0.55 (95% CI, 0.45-0.64).Data ConclusionDCNNs can accurately discriminate between benign and atypical/anaplastic meningiomas from ADC maps but not from PCT1 W images.Level Of Evidence2 Technical Efficacy: Stage 2 J. Magn. Reson. Imaging 2019;50:1152-1159.© 2019 The Authors. Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine.

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