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Background  Chronic pulmonary embolism (CPE) is a life-threatening disease easily misdiagnosed on computed tomography. We investigated a three-dimensional convolutional neural network (CNN) algorithm for detecting hypoperfusion in CPE from computed tomography pulmonary angiography (CTPA).    Methods  Preoperative CTPA of 25 patients with CPE and 25 without pulmonary embolism were selected. We applied a 48%–12%–40% training-validation-testing split (12 positive and 12 negative CTPA volumes for training, 3 positives and 3 negatives for validation, 10 positives and 10 negatives for testing). The median number of axial images per CTPA was 335 (min–max, 111–570). Expert manual segmentations were used as training and testing targets. The CNN output was compared to a method in which a Hounsfield unit (HU) threshold was used to detect hypoperfusion. Receiver operating characteristic area under the curve (AUC) and Matthew correlation coefficient (MCC) were calculated with their 95% confidence interval (CI).    Results  The predicted segmentations of CNN showed AUC 0.87 (95% CI 0.82–0.91), those of HU-threshold method 0.79 (95% CI 0.74–0.84). The optimal global threshold values were CNN output probability ≥ 0.37 and ≤ -850 HU. Using these values, MCC was 0.46 (95% CI 0.29–0.59) for CNN and 0.35 (95% CI 0.18–0.48) for HU-threshold method (average difference in MCC in the bootstrap samples 0.11 (95% CI 0.05–0.16). A high CNN prediction probability was a strong predictor of CPE.    Conclusions  We proposed a deep learning method for detecting hypoperfusion in CPE from CTPA. This model may help evaluating disease extent and supporting treatment planning.

european radiology experimental

Performance of a 3D convolutional neural network in the detection of hypoperfusion at CT pulmonary angiography in patients with chronic pulmonary embolism: a feasibility study