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| author | Sanchez, Thomas Esteban, Oscar Gomez, Yvan Pron, Alexandre Koob, Mériam Dunet, Vincent Girard, Nadine Jakab, Andras Eixarch, Elisenda Auzias, Guillaume Cuadra, Meritxell Bach |
| author_facet | Sanchez, Thomas Esteban, Oscar Gomez, Yvan Pron, Alexandre Koob, Mériam Dunet, Vincent Girard, Nadine Jakab, Andras Eixarch, Elisenda Auzias, Guillaume Cuadra, Meritxell Bach |
| contents | Fetal brain MRI is becoming an increasingly relevant complement to neurosonography for perinatal diagnosis, allowing fundamental insights into fetal brain development throughout gestation. However, uncontrolled fetal motion and heterogeneity in acquisition protocols lead to data of variable quality, potentially biasing the outcome of subsequent studies. We present FetMRQC, an open-source machine-learning framework for automated image quality assessment and quality control that is robust to domain shifts induced by the heterogeneity of clinical data. FetMRQC extracts an ensemble of quality metrics from unprocessed anatomical MRI and combines them to predict experts' ratings using random forests. We validate our framework on a pioneeringly large and diverse dataset of more than 1600 manually rated fetal brain T2-weighted images from four clinical centers and 13 different scanners. Our study shows that FetMRQC's predictions generalize well to unseen data while being interpretable. FetMRQC is a step towards more robust fetal brain neuroimaging, which has the potential to shed new insights on the developing human brain. |
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| publishDate | 2023 |
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| spellingShingle | FetMRQC: a robust quality control system for multi-centric fetal brain MRI Sanchez, Thomas Esteban, Oscar Gomez, Yvan Pron, Alexandre Koob, Mériam Dunet, Vincent Girard, Nadine Jakab, Andras Eixarch, Elisenda Auzias, Guillaume Cuadra, Meritxell Bach Image and Video Processing Machine Learning Fetal brain MRI is becoming an increasingly relevant complement to neurosonography for perinatal diagnosis, allowing fundamental insights into fetal brain development throughout gestation. However, uncontrolled fetal motion and heterogeneity in acquisition protocols lead to data of variable quality, potentially biasing the outcome of subsequent studies. We present FetMRQC, an open-source machine-learning framework for automated image quality assessment and quality control that is robust to domain shifts induced by the heterogeneity of clinical data. FetMRQC extracts an ensemble of quality metrics from unprocessed anatomical MRI and combines them to predict experts' ratings using random forests. We validate our framework on a pioneeringly large and diverse dataset of more than 1600 manually rated fetal brain T2-weighted images from four clinical centers and 13 different scanners. Our study shows that FetMRQC's predictions generalize well to unseen data while being interpretable. FetMRQC is a step towards more robust fetal brain neuroimaging, which has the potential to shed new insights on the developing human brain. |
| title | FetMRQC: a robust quality control system for multi-centric fetal brain MRI |
| topic | Image and Video Processing Machine Learning |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.04780 |