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Automatic motion artefact detection in brain T1-weighted magnetic resonance images from a clinical data warehouse using synthetic data

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Containing the medical data of millions of patients, clinical data warehouses (CDWs) represent a great opportunity to develop computational tools. Magnetic resonance images (MRIs) are particularly sensitive to patient movements during image acquisition, which will result in artefacts (blurring, ghosting and ringing) in the reconstructed image. As a result, a significant number of MRIs in CDWs are corrupted by these artefacts and may be unusable. Since their manual detection is impossible due to the large number of scans, it is necessary to develop tools to automatically exclude (or at least identify) images with motion in order to fully exploit CDWs. In this paper, we propose a novel transfer learning method for the automatic detection of motion in 3D T1-weighted brain MRI. The method consists of two steps: a pre-training on research data using synthetic motion, followed by a fine-tuning step to generalise our pre-trained model to clinical data, relying on the labelling of 4045 images. The objectives were both (1) to be able to exclude images with severe motion, (2) to detect mild motion artefacts. Our approach achieved excellent accuracy for the first objective with a balanced accuracy nearly similar to that of the annotators (balanced accuracy>80 %). However, for the second objective, the performance was weaker and substantially lower than that of human raters. Overall, our framework will be useful to take advantage of CDWs in medical imaging and highlight the importance of a clinical validation of models trained on research data.
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hal-03910451 , version 1 (22-12-2022)
hal-03910451 , version 2 (02-01-2024)

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Sophie Loizillon, Simona Bottani, Aurélien Maire, Sebastian Ströer, Didier Dormont, et al.. Automatic motion artefact detection in brain T1-weighted magnetic resonance images from a clinical data warehouse using synthetic data. Medical Image Analysis, 2024, 93, pp.103073. ⟨10.1016/j.media.2023.103073⟩. ⟨hal-03910451v2⟩
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