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Abstract #3805

Classification of Benign and Malignant Parotid Gland Tumors using Deep Learning and 2.5D MRI

Wenfeng Mai1, Lingtao Zhang1, Dong Zhang1, Weiyin Vivian Liu2, Liangping Luo1, and Changzheng Shi1
1The First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou, China, 2GE Healthcare, MR Research China, Beijing, China

Synopsis

Keywords: Head & Neck/ENT, Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence

Motivation: Preoperative distinguishment of the benign parotid gland tumors from the malignant determines the surgical scope; however, identifying tumor nature with only T1-weighted and fat-suppressed T2-weighted images is challenging.

Goal(s): Inserting three adjacent slices of the tumor into the RGB channels of a 2D image as 2.5D images coupled with transfer learning was utilized.

Approach: Using 2D and 2.5D images as input, a ResNet-101 model, pre-trained on ImageNet, was employed for transfer learning to facilitate the prediction.

Results: Deep learning models discerned malignant parotid gland tumors from the benign, especially 2.5D model showed superior performance to 2D model.

Impact: The transfer learning and 2.5D-MRI based classification model offered new insights to differentiate the malignant parotid gland tumors from the benign ones, especially when sample quantities are limited.

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