用4DCT数据预测肺通气功能,比传统方法更准更快。
An Explainable Neural Radiomic Sequence Model with Spatiotemporal Continuity for Quantifying 4DCT-based Pulmonary Ventilation
- 基于4DCT的影像组学序列建模,捕捉呼吸周期中的纹理变化
- 在PET/SPECT验证下,分割准确率平均达0.78(最高0.82)
- 可解释性模型揭示通气异常时的强度上升与均质性下降特征
精准评估局部肺通气对肺癌患者管理至关重要,有助于肺功能评估、治疗策略优化及疗效监测。目前临床多采用核医学通风显像,但存在耗时、成本高和额外辐射问题。本研究提出一种可解释的神经影像组学序列模型,基于四维计算机断层扫描(4DCT)识别肺通气受损区域。分析了来自VAMPIRE数据集的45例肺癌患者,对每位患者从4DCT中分割出肺体积,并在呼吸周期中提取56维体素级影像组学特征,形成时间序列。以Galligas-PET和DTPA-SPECT为金标准进行体素级通气缺陷标注。构建了基于时间显著性增强的可解释长短期记忆(LSTM)网络,在影像组学序列上训练并生成时间显著性图,揭示关键贡献特征。模型表现稳健,25例PET病例平均Dice系数为0.78(0.74-0.79),20例SPECT病例为0.78(0.74-0.82)。显著性图显示:呼气阶段,通气功能受损区域通常呈现(1)强度上升趋势,(2)均质性下降趋势,与健康组织相反。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Accurate evaluation of regional lung ventilation is essential for the management and treatment of lung cancer patients, supporting assessments of pulmonary function, optimization of therapeutic strategies, and monitoring of treatment response. Currently, ventilation scintigraphy using nuclear medicine techniques is widely employed in clinical practice; however, it is often time-consuming, costly, and entails additional radiation exposure. In this study, we propose an explainable neural radiomic sequence model to identify regions of compromised pulmonary ventilation based on four-dimensional computed tomography (4DCT). A cohort of 45 lung cancer patients from the VAMPIRE dataset was analyzed. For each patient, lung volumes were segmented from 4DCT, and voxel-wise radiomic features (56-dimensional) were extracted across the respiratory cycle to capture local intensity and texture dynamics, forming temporal radiomic sequences. Ground truth ventilation defects were delineated voxel-wise using Galligas-PET and DTPA-SPECT. To identify compromised regions, we developed a temporal saliency-enhanced explainable long short-term memory (LSTM) network trained on the radiomic sequences. Temporal saliency maps were generated to highlight key features contributing to the model's predictions. The proposed model demonstrated robust performance, achieving average (range) Dice similarity coefficients of 0.78 (0.74-0.79) for 25 PET cases and 0.78 (0.74-0.82) for 20 SPECT cases. The temporal saliency map explained three key radiomic sequences in ventilation quantification: during lung exhalation, compromised pulmonary function region typically exhibits (1) an increasing trend of intensity and (2) a decreasing trend of homogeneity, in contrast to healthy lung tissue.
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