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Automatic delineation algorithm of reference region for amyloid imaging based on kinetics

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Abstract

Objective

This study aims to develop an algorithm named AutoRef to delineate a reference region for quantitative PET amyloid imaging.

Methods

AutoRef sets the reference region automatically using a distinguishing feature in the kinetics of reference region. This is reflected in the shapes of the tissue time activity curve. A statistical shape recognition algorithm of the gaussian mixture model is applied with considering spatial and temporal information on a reference region. We evaluate the BPND with manually set reference region and AutoRef using 86 cases (43 positive cases, 10 equivocal cases, and 33 negative cases) of dynamically scanned 11C-Pittsburgh Compound-B.

Results

From the Bland–Altman plot, the difference between two BPND is 0.099 ± 0.21 as standard deviation, and no significant systematic error is observed between the BPND with AutoRef and with manual definition of a reference region. Although a proportional error is detected, it is smaller than the 95% limits of agreement. Therefore, the proportional error is negligibly small.

Conclusions

AutoRef presents the same performance as the manual definition of the reference region. Further, since AutoRef is more algorithmic than the ordinary manual definition of the reference region, there are few operator-oriented uncertainties in AutoRef. We thus conclude that AutoRef can be applied as an automatic delineating algorithm for the reference region in amyloid imaging.

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Acknowledgements

I express my gratitude to Dr. Chisa Hosokawa for her enthusiastic guidance from the beginning. This work is supported by MEXT KAKENHI Grant No. 15H01131 and Kindai University Research Grants: KD201805 from 2015 to 2017 and KD1804 from 2018.

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  1. Department of Biological System Engineering, Graduate School of Biology-Oriented Science and Technology, Kindai University, 930 Nishimitani, Kinokawa-shi, 649-6493, Wakayama, Japan

    Takahiro Yamada, Takashi Nagaoka & Yuichi Kimura

  2. Department of Human Health Sciences, Graduate School of Medicine Kyoto University, Yoshida-Konoe-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan

    Shogo Watanabe

  3. Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Biology-Oriented Science and Technology, Kindai University, 930 Nishimitani, Kinokawa-shi, Wakayama, Japan

    Mitsutaka Nemoto

  4. Division of Positron Emission Tomography, Institute of Advanced Clinical Medicine, Kindai University, 377-2 Ohnohigashi, Osakasayama-shi, Osaka, Japan

    Kohei Hanaoka & Kazunari Ishii

  5. Department of Radiology, Faculty of Medicine, Kindai University, 377-2 Ohnohigashi, Osakasayama-shi, Osaka, Japan

    Hayato Kaida & Kazunari Ishii

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Yamada, T., Watanabe, S., Nagaoka, T. et al. Automatic delineation algorithm of reference region for amyloid imaging based on kinetics. Ann Nucl Med 34, 102–107 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12149-019-01419-9

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