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Automated Deep Identification of Radiopharmaceutical Type and Body Region From Pet Images Publisher



Ghafari A1, 2 ; Sheikhzadeh P1, 3 ; Seyyedi N4 ; Abbasi M3 ; Ahamed S5, 6 ; Ay MR1, 7 ; Rahmim A5, 6
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  1. 1. Department of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
  2. 2. Research Center for Evidence-Based Medicine, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran
  3. 3. Department of Nuclear Medicine, Vali-Asr Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
  4. 4. Nursing Care Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
  5. 5. Department of Integrative Oncology, BC Cancer Research Institute, Vancouver, BC, Canada
  6. 6. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
  7. 7. Research Center for Molecular and Cellular Imaging, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Source: Iranian Journal of Nuclear Medicine Published:2024


Abstract

Introduction: A deep learning pipeline consisting of two deep convolutional neural networks (DeepCNN) was developed, and its capability to differentiate uptake patterns of different radiopharmaceuticals and to further categorize PET images based on the body regions was explored. Methods: We trained two sets of DeepCNN to determine (i) the type of radiopharmaceutical ([18F]FDG and [68Ga]Ga-PSMA) used in imaging (i.e., a binary classification task), and (ii) body region including head and neck, thorax, abdomen, and pelvis (i.e., a 4-class classification task), using the 2D axial slices of PET images. The models were trained and tested for five different scan durations, thus studying different noise levels. Results: The accuracy of the binary classification models developed for different scan duration levels was 98.9%–99.6%, and for the 4-class classification models in the range of 98.3%–99.9 ([18F]FDG) and 97.8%–99.6% ([68Ga]Ga-PSMA). Conclusion: We were able to reliably detect the type of radiopharmaceutical used in PET imaging and the body region of the PET images at different scan duration levels. These deep learning (DL) models can be used together as a preliminary input pipeline for the use of models specific to a type of radiopharmaceutical or body region for different applications and for extracting appropriate data from unclassified images. Copyright © 2024 The Authors.
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