Deep Learning to Detect Triangular Fibrocartilage Complex Injury in Wrist MRI: Retrospective Study with Internal and External Validation

Overview

Journal J Pers Med

Date 2022 Jul 27

PMID 35887524

Authors

Kun-Yi Lin

Yuan-Ta Li

Juin-Yi Han

Chia-Chun Wu

Chi-Min Chu

Shao-Yu Peng

Tsu-Te Yeh

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Abstract

Objective: To use deep learning to predict the probability of triangular fibrocartilage complex (TFCC) injury in patients' MRI scans.

Methods: We retrospectively studied medical records over 11 years and 2 months (1 January 2009-29 February 2019), collecting 332 contrast-enhanced hand MRI scans showing TFCC injury (143 scans) or not (189 scans) from a general hospital. We employed two convolutional neural networks with the MRNet (Algorithm 1) and ResNet50 (Algorithm 2) framework for deep learning. Explainable artificial intelligence was used for heatmap analysis. We tested deep learning using an external dataset containing the MRI scans of 12 patients with TFCC injuries and 38 healthy subjects.

Results: In the internal dataset, Algorithm 1 had an AUC of 0.809 (95% confidence interval-CI: 0.670-0.947) for TFCC injury detection as well as an accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity of 75.6% (95% CI: 0.613-0.858), 66.7% (95% CI: 0.438-0.837), and 81.5% (95% CI: 0.633-0.918), respectively, and an F1 score of 0.686. Algorithm 2 had an AUC of 0.871 (95% CI: 0.747-0.995) for TFCC injury detection and an accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity of 90.7% (95% CI: 0.787-0.962), 88.2% (95% CI: 0.664-0.966), and 92.3% (95% CI: 0.763-0.978), respectively, and an F1 score of 0.882. The accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity for radiologist 1 were 88.9, 94.4 and 85.2%, respectively, and for radiologist 2, they were 71.1, 100 and 51.9%, respectively.

Conclusions: A modified MRNet framework enables the detection of TFCC injury and guides accurate diagnosis.

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