• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems
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Multi-parametric MRIs based assessment of Hepatocellular Carcinoma Differentiation with Multi-scale ResNet


Abstract

To explore an effective non-invasion medical imaging diagnostics approach for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), we propose a method based on adopting the multiple technologies with the multi-parametric data fusion, transfer learning, and multi-scale deep feature extraction. Firstly, to make full use of complementary and enhancing the contribution of different modalities viz. multi-parametric MRI images in the lesion diagnosis, we propose a data-level fusion strategy. Secondly, based on the fusion data as the input, the multi-scale residual neural network with SPP (Spatial Pyramid Pooling) is utilized for the discriminative feature representation learning. Thirdly, to mitigate the impact of the lack of training samples, we do the pre-training of the proposed multi-scale residual neural network model on the natural image dataset and the fine-tuning with the chosen multi-parametric MRI images as complementary data. The comparative experiment results on the dataset from the clinical cases show that our proposed approach by employing the multiple strategies achieves the highest accuracy of 0.847±0.023 in the classification problem on the HCC differentiation. In the problem of discriminating the HCC lesion from the non-tumor area, we achieve a good performance with accuracy, sensitivity, specificity and AUC (area under the ROC curve) being 0.981±0.002, 0.981±0.002, 0.991±0.007 and 0.999±0.0008, respectively.


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[IEEE Style]
X. Jia, Y. Xiao, D. Yang, Z. Yang, C. Lu, "Multi-parametric MRIs based assessment of Hepatocellular Carcinoma Differentiation with Multi-scale ResNet," KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems, vol. 13, no. 10, pp. 5179-5196, 2019. DOI: 10.3837/tiis.2019.10.020.

[ACM Style]
Xibin Jia, Yujie Xiao, Dawei Yang, Zhenghan Yang, and Chen Lu. 2019. Multi-parametric MRIs based assessment of Hepatocellular Carcinoma Differentiation with Multi-scale ResNet. KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems, 13, 10, (2019), 5179-5196. DOI: 10.3837/tiis.2019.10.020.

[BibTeX Style]
@article{tiis:22244, title="Multi-parametric MRIs based assessment of Hepatocellular Carcinoma Differentiation with Multi-scale ResNet", author="Xibin Jia and Yujie Xiao and Dawei Yang and Zhenghan Yang and Chen Lu and ", journal="KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems", DOI={10.3837/tiis.2019.10.020}, volume={13}, number={10}, year="2019", month={October}, pages={5179-5196}}