Generating synthetic contrast enhancement from non-contrast chest computed tomography using a generative adversarial network

Author:

Choi Jae Won,Cho Yeon Jin,Ha Ji Young,Lee Seul Bi,Lee Seunghyun,Choi Young Hun,Cheon Jung-Eun,Kim Woo Sun

Abstract

AbstractThis study aimed to evaluate a deep learning model for generating synthetic contrast-enhanced CT (sCECT) from non-contrast chest CT (NCCT). A deep learning model was applied to generate sCECT from NCCT. We collected three separate data sets, the development set (n = 25) for model training and tuning, test set 1 (n = 25) for technical evaluation, and test set 2 (n = 12) for clinical utility evaluation. In test set 1, image similarity metrics were calculated. In test set 2, the lesion contrast-to-noise ratio of the mediastinal lymph nodes was measured, and an observer study was conducted to compare lesion conspicuity. Comparisons were performed using the paired t-test or Wilcoxon signed-rank test. In test set 1, sCECT showed a lower mean absolute error (41.72 vs 48.74; P < .001), higher peak signal-to-noise ratio (17.44 vs 15.97; P < .001), higher multiscale structural similarity index measurement (0.84 vs 0.81; P < .001), and lower learned perceptual image patch similarity metric (0.14 vs 0.15; P < .001) than NCCT. In test set 2, the contrast-to-noise ratio of the mediastinal lymph nodes was higher in the sCECT group than in the NCCT group (6.15 ± 5.18 vs 0.74 ± 0.69; P < .001). The observer study showed for all reviewers higher lesion conspicuity in NCCT with sCECT than in NCCT alone (P ≤ .001). Synthetic CECT generated from NCCT improves the depiction of mediastinal lymph nodes.

Funder

Seoul National University Hospital Research Fund

Publisher

Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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