Rule-based deep learning method for prognosis of neonatal hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy by using susceptibility weighted image analysis

Tang, Zhen, Mahmoodi, Sasan and Meng, Di , et al. (2024) Rule-based deep learning method for prognosis of neonatal hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy by using susceptibility weighted image analysis. Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics, Biology and Medicine, 37 (2), 227-239. (doi:10.1007/s10334-023-01139-2).

Abstract

Objective: susceptibility weighted imaging (SWI) of neonatal hypoxic-ischemic brain injury can provide assistance in the prognosis of neonatal hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE). We propose a convolutional neural network model to classify SWI images with HIE.

Materials and methods: due to the lack of a large dataset, transfer learning method with fine-tuning a pre-trained ResNet 50 is introduced. We randomly select 11 datasets from patients with normal neurology outcomes (n = 31) and patients with abnormal neurology outcomes (n = 11) at 24 months of age to avoid bias in classification due to any imbalance in the data.

Results: we develop a rule-based system to improve the classification performance, with an accuracy of 0.93 ± 0.09. We also compute heatmaps produced by the Grad-CAM technique to analyze which areas of SWI images contributed more to the classification patients with abnormal neurology outcome.

Conclusion: such regions that are important in the classification accuracy can interpret the relationship between the brain regions affected by hypoxic-ischemic and neurodevelopmental outcomes of infants with HIE at the age of 2 years.

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Contributors

Author: Brigitte Vollmer

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