Table 1 Review of the papers that applied deep learning for brain vessel segmentation.

From: Deep learning for 3D vascular segmentation in hierarchical phase contrast tomography: a case study on kidney

References

Modality

Data source

No. of subj.

ML model

Input

DSC

Add’l perf. metrics

Livne et al.48

TOF MRA

Private

(PEGASUS)

66

U-Net

2D patches

0.88

95HD = \(\sim\) 47 voxels

an

AVD = \(\sim\) 0.4 voxels

Phellan et al.49

TOF MRA

Private

5

2D CNN

2D patches

Between 0.764

0.786

Hilbert et al.50

TOF MRA

Private

(PEGASUS+

7UP+

1000Plus)

264

3D CNN

(BRAVE-NET)

3D patches

0.931

95HD = 29.153,

AVD = 0.165

Patel et al.51

DSA

Private

100

3D CNN (DeepMedic)

3D U-Net

3D patches

0.94 ± 0.02

0.92 ± 0.02

respectively

CAL = 0.84±0.07

0.79 ± 0.06

respectively

Tetteh et al.52

TOF MRA

\(\mu\)CTA

Publicly

available

Synthetic data

NN with 2D

orthogonal

cross-hair filters

(DeepVesselNet)

3D volumes

0.79

Prec = 0.77

Recall = 0.82

Garcia et al.53

3DRA

Private

5

3DUNet-based

architectures

3D patches

0.80 ± 0.06

Prec = 0.75 ± 0.10

and Recall = 0.90 ± 0.07

Vos et al.54

TOF-MRA

Private

69

2D and

3D U-Net

2D and

3D patches

0.74 ± 0.17

0.72 ± 0.15

respectively

MHD = 47.6 ± 40.4

5 81.3 ± 57.0

respectively

Chatterjee et al.55

TOF MRI

Not explicity

stated

11

U-Net MSS

3D patches

0.79 ± 0.091

IOU = 65.89 ± 1.25

Zhang and Chen56

TOF-MRA

Not explicity

stated

42

DD-Net

3D patches

0.67

Sensitivity = 67.86

IOU = 33.66

B.Zhang et al.57

TOF-MRA

Publicly available

(MIDAS)

109

DD-CNN

3D patches

0.93

PPV = 96.4730,

Sensitivity = 90.1443,

Acc = 99.9463

Lee et al.58

MRA

Private

(SNUBH)

26

2D U-Net with LSTM

(Spider U-Net)

‘2D images

0.793

IOU = 74.3

Quintana et al.59

TOF-MRA

Private

(UNAM)

4

Dual U-Net-Based cGAN

2D images

0.872

Prec = 0.895

  1. CNN convolutional neural network, GAN generative adversarial network, cGAN conditional GAN, DD-Net dense-dilated neural network, LSTM long short-term memory, U-Net MSS multi-scale supervised U-Net, TOF MRA time of flight magnetic resonance angiography, DSA digital subtraction angiography, \(\mu\)CTA micro-computed tomography angiography, 3DRA 3D rotational angiographies, DSC Dice similarity coefficient, HD Hausdorff distance, AVD average distance, Prec Precision, MHD Mahalanobis distance, IOU intersection over union, PPV positive predictive value, CAL connectivity-area-length.