PMID- 31602089 OWN - NLM STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE LR - 20200928 IS - 0277-786X (Print) IS - 1996-756X (Electronic) IS - 0277-786X (Linking) VI - 10949 DP - 2019 Mar TI - Distributed deep learning for robust multi-site segmentation of CT imaging after traumatic brain injury. LID - 109490A [pii] LID - 10.1117/12.2511997 [doi] AB - Machine learning models are becoming commonplace in the domain of medical imaging, and with these methods comes an ever-increasing need for more data. However, to preserve patient anonymity it is frequently impractical or prohibited to transfer protected health information (PHI) between institutions. Additionally, due to the nature of some studies, there may not be a large public dataset available on which to train models. To address this conundrum, we analyze the efficacy of transferring the model itself in lieu of data between different sites. By doing so we accomplish two goals: 1) the model gains access to training on a larger dataset that it could not normally obtain and 2) the model better generalizes, having trained on data from separate locations. In this paper, we implement multi-site learning with disparate datasets from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) without compromising PHI. Three neural networks are trained to convergence on a computed tomography (CT) brain hematoma segmentation task: one only with NIH data, one only with VUMC data, and one multi-site model alternating between NIH and VUMC data. Resultant lesion masks with the multi-site model attain an average Dice similarity coefficient of 0.64 and the automatically segmented hematoma volumes correlate to those done manually with a Pearson correlation coefficient of 0.87, corresponding to an 8% and 5% improvement, respectively, over the single-site model counterparts. FAU - Remedios, Samuel AU - Remedios S AD - Center for Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine, Henry Jackson Foundation. AD - Radiology and Imaging Sciences, Clinical Center, National Institute of Health. AD - Department of Computer Science, Middle Tennessee State University. AD - Department of Electrical Engineering, Vanderbilt University. FAU - Roy, Snehashis AU - Roy S AD - Center for Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine, Henry Jackson Foundation. AD - Radiology and Imaging Sciences, Clinical Center, National Institute of Health. FAU - Blaber, Justin AU - Blaber J AD - Department of Electrical Engineering, Vanderbilt University. FAU - Bermudez, Camilo AU - Bermudez C AD - Department of Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University. FAU - Nath, Vishwesh AU - Nath V AD - Department of Computer Science, Vanderbilt University. FAU - Patel, Mayur B AU - Patel MB AD - Departments of Surgery, Neurosurgery, Hearing & Speech Sciences; Center for Health Services Research, Vanderbilt Brain Institute; Critical Illness, Brain Dysfunction, and Survivorship Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center; VA Tennessee Valley Healthcare System, Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center. FAU - Butman, John A AU - Butman JA AD - Radiology and Imaging Sciences, Clinical Center, National Institute of Health. FAU - Landman, Bennett A AU - Landman BA AD - Department of Electrical Engineering, Vanderbilt University. AD - Department of Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University. AD - Department of Computer Science, Vanderbilt University. FAU - Pham, Dzung L AU - Pham DL AD - Center for Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine, Henry Jackson Foundation. AD - Radiology and Imaging Sciences, Clinical Center, National Institute of Health. LA - eng GR - R01 EB017230/EB/NIBIB NIH HHS/United States GR - R01 GM120484/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article PL - United States TA - Proc SPIE Int Soc Opt Eng JT - Proceedings of SPIE--the International Society for Optical Engineering JID - 101524122 PMC - PMC6786776 MID - NIHMS1009837 OTO - NOTNLM OT - computed tomography (CT) OT - deep learning OT - distributed OT - hematoma OT - lesion OT - multi-site OT - neural network OT - segmentation EDAT- 2019/10/12 06:00 MHDA- 2019/10/12 06:01 PMCR- 2019/10/10 CRDT- 2019/10/12 06:00 PHST- 2019/10/12 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2019/10/12 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2019/10/12 06:01 [medline] PHST- 2019/10/10 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 109490A [pii] AID - 10.1117/12.2511997 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Proc SPIE Int Soc Opt Eng. 2019 Mar;10949:109490A. doi: 10.1117/12.2511997.