Noise reduction using novel loss functions to compute tissue mineral density and trabecular bone volume fraction on low resolution QCT.

Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics : the Official Journal of the Computerized Medical Imaging Society
Felix S L ThomsenJan Borggrefe

Abstract

Micro-structural parameters of the thoracic or lumbar spine generally carry insufficient accuracy and precision for clinical in vivo studies when assessed on quantitative computed tomography (QCT). We propose a 3D convolutional neural network with specific loss functions for QCT noise reduction to compute micro-structural parameters such as tissue mineral density (TMD) and bone volume ratio (BV/TV) with significantly higher accuracy than using no or standard noise reduction filters. The vertebra-phantom study contained high resolution peripheral and clinical CT scans with simulated in vivo CT noise and nine repetitions of three different tube currents (100, 250 and 360 mAs). Five-fold cross validation was performed on 20466 purely spongy pairs of noisy and ground-truth patches. Comparison of training and test errors revealed high robustness against over-fitting. While not showing effects for the assessment of BMD and voxel-wise densities, the filter improved thoroughly the computation of TMD and BV/TV with respect to the unfiltered data. Root-mean-square and accuracy errors of low resolution TMD and BV/TV decreased to less than 17% of the initial values. Furthermore filtered low resolution scans revealed still more TMD- and BV/...Continue Reading

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