机构:[1]Harbin Inst Technol Shenzhen, Dept Elect & Informat Engn, Shenzhen, Peoples R China[2]Capital Med Univ, Xuanwu Hosp, Dept Neurol & Neurobiol, Beijing, Peoples R China首都医科大学宣武医院[3]Chinese Inst Brain Res CIBR, Beijing, Peoples R China[4]Harbin Inst Technol Shenzhen, Int Res Inst Artificial Intelligence, Shenzhen, Peoples R China[5]Capital Med Univ, Xuanwu Hosp, Dept Radiol, Beijing, Peoples R China首都医科大学宣武医院[6]Capital Med Univ, Beijing Key Lab Magnet Resonance Imaging & Brain I, Beijing, Peoples R China[7]Mindsgo Life Sci Shenzhen Co Ltd, Shenzhen, Peoples R China[8]Capital Med Univ, Xuanwu Hosp, Natl Clin Res Ctr Geriatr Disorders, Beijing, Peoples R China首都医科大学宣武医院[9]Capital Med Univ, Adv Innovat Ctr Human Brain Protect, Beijing, Peoples R China[10]Peng Cheng Lab, Shenzhen, Peoples R China
Objectives: [18F]9-fluoropropyl-(+)-dihydrotetrabenazine ([18F]-FP-DTBZ) positron emission tomography (PET) provides reliable information for the diagnosis of Parkinson's disease (PD). In this study, we proposed a multi-atlas-based [18F]-FP-DTBZ PET image segmentation method for PD quantification assessment. Methods: A total of 99 subjects from Xuanwu Hospital of Capital Medical University were included in this study, and both brain PET and magnetic resonance (MR) scans were conducted. Data from 20 subjects were used to generate atlases, based on which a multi-atlas-based [18F]-FP-DTBZ PET segmentation method was developed especially for striatum and its subregions. The proposed method was compared with the template-based method through striatal subregion parcellation performance and the standard uptake value ratio (SUVR) quantification accuracy. Discriminant analysis between healthy controls (HCs) and PD patients was further performed. Results: Segmentation results of the multi-atlas-based method showed better consistency than the template-based method with the ground truth, yielding a dice coefficient of 0.81 over 0.73 on the full striatum. The SUVRs calculated by the multi-atlas-based method had an average interclass correlation coefficient (ICC) of 0.953 with the standardized result, whereas the template-based method only reached 0.815. The SUVRs of HCs were generally higher than that of patients with PD and showed significant differences in all of the striatal subregions (all p < 0.001). The median and posterior putamen performed best in discriminating patients with PD from HCs. Conclusion: The proposed multi-atlas-based [18F]-FP-DTBZ PET image segmentation method achieved better performance than the template-based method, indicating great potential in improving accuracy and efficiency for PD diagnosis in clinical routine.
基金:
National Key Research and Development Program of China [2018YFC1312000, 2017YFC0840105, 2017ZX09304018]; China Postdoctoral Science Foundation [2021M691686]; Basic Research Foundation of Shenzhen Science and Technology Stable Support Plan [GXWD20201230155427003-20200822115709001]; National Natural Science Foundation of China [62106113, 81901285, 81701726, 81522021]; Beijing Municipal Administration of Hospitals [SML20150803, DFL20180802]; Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission [Z171100000117013]