Segment-and-Classify: ROI-Guided Generalizable Contrast Phase Classification in CT Using XGBoost

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Main Authors: Hou, Benjamin, Mathai, Tejas Sudharshan, Mukherjee, Pritam, Wang, Xinya, Summers, Ronald M., Lu, Zhiyong
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author Hou, Benjamin
Mathai, Tejas Sudharshan
Mukherjee, Pritam
Wang, Xinya
Summers, Ronald M.
Lu, Zhiyong
author_facet Hou, Benjamin
Mathai, Tejas Sudharshan
Mukherjee, Pritam
Wang, Xinya
Summers, Ronald M.
Lu, Zhiyong
contents Purpose: To automate contrast phase classification in CT using organ-specific features extracted from a widely used segmentation tool with a lightweight decision tree classifier. Materials and Methods: This retrospective study utilized three public CT datasets from separate institutions. The phase prediction model was trained on the WAW-TACE (median age: 66 [60,73]; 185 males) dataset, and externally validated on the VinDr-Multiphase (146 males; 63 females; 56 unk) and C4KC-KiTS (median age: 61 [50.68; 123 males) datasets. Contrast phase classification was performed using organ-specific features extracted by TotalSegmentator, followed by prediction using a gradient-boosted decision tree classifier. Results: On the VinDr-Multiphase dataset, the phase prediction model achieved the highest or comparable AUCs across all phases (>0.937), with superior F1-scores in the non-contrast (0.994), arterial (0.937), and delayed (0.718) phases. Statistical testing indicated significant performance differences only in the arterial and delayed phases (p<0.05). On the C4KC-KiTS dataset, the phase prediction model achieved the highest AUCs across all phases (>0.991), with superior F1-scores in arterial/venous (0.968) and delayed (0.935) phases. Statistical testing confirmed significant improvements over all baseline models in these two phases (p<0.05). Performance in the non-contrast class, however, was comparable across all models, with no statistically significant differences observed (p>0.05). Conclusion: The lightweight model demonstrated strong performance relative to all baseline models, and exhibited robust generalizability across datasets from different institutions.
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spellingShingle Segment-and-Classify: ROI-Guided Generalizable Contrast Phase Classification in CT Using XGBoost
Hou, Benjamin
Mathai, Tejas Sudharshan
Mukherjee, Pritam
Wang, Xinya
Summers, Ronald M.
Lu, Zhiyong
Image and Video Processing
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Purpose: To automate contrast phase classification in CT using organ-specific features extracted from a widely used segmentation tool with a lightweight decision tree classifier. Materials and Methods: This retrospective study utilized three public CT datasets from separate institutions. The phase prediction model was trained on the WAW-TACE (median age: 66 [60,73]; 185 males) dataset, and externally validated on the VinDr-Multiphase (146 males; 63 females; 56 unk) and C4KC-KiTS (median age: 61 [50.68; 123 males) datasets. Contrast phase classification was performed using organ-specific features extracted by TotalSegmentator, followed by prediction using a gradient-boosted decision tree classifier. Results: On the VinDr-Multiphase dataset, the phase prediction model achieved the highest or comparable AUCs across all phases (>0.937), with superior F1-scores in the non-contrast (0.994), arterial (0.937), and delayed (0.718) phases. Statistical testing indicated significant performance differences only in the arterial and delayed phases (p<0.05). On the C4KC-KiTS dataset, the phase prediction model achieved the highest AUCs across all phases (>0.991), with superior F1-scores in arterial/venous (0.968) and delayed (0.935) phases. Statistical testing confirmed significant improvements over all baseline models in these two phases (p<0.05). Performance in the non-contrast class, however, was comparable across all models, with no statistically significant differences observed (p>0.05). Conclusion: The lightweight model demonstrated strong performance relative to all baseline models, and exhibited robust generalizability across datasets from different institutions.
title Segment-and-Classify: ROI-Guided Generalizable Contrast Phase Classification in CT Using XGBoost
topic Image and Video Processing
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.14066