Automatic Segmentation Ultrasound-based Radiomics Technology in Diabetic Kidney Disease

Ultrasound examination is a convenient, cheap and non-invasive method for kidney examination. However, the ability of conventional ultrasound to distinguish diabetic kidney disease from normal kidney is limited, and it is difficult to accurately distinguish between diabetic kidney disease and normal kidney only with the naked eye. In recent years, computer science has developed rapidly and artificial intelligence has been developing continuously. Much progress has been made in applying artificial intelligence in data analysis. Machine learning is a direction of generalized artificial intelligence, its main characteristic is to make the machine autonomous prediction and create algorithm, so as to achieve autonomous learning. kidney disease and deep learning are two different approaches in the field of machine learning. In this study, image omics and deep learning were used to analyze the images. Image omics extracts traditional image features, including shape, gray scale, texture, etc., and uses machine learning (pattern recognition) models to classify and predict, such as support vector machine, random forest, XGBoost, etc. Deep learning directly uses the convolutional network CNN to extract features, and completes classification and prediction in combination with the full connection layer, etc.

This study aims to explore the detection of diabetic kidney disease and its pathological degree based on automatic segmentation ultraound-based radiomics technology, mining of internal information of ultrasound images, and form a set of non-invasive monitoring of diabetic kidney disease complications development system, especially in primary medical institutions, has a broad clinical application prospect.

Inclusion criteria

• patients with clinical diagnosis of T2DM and DKD were enrolled.
• patients with clear B mode ultrasound imaging in both side of kidney (left and right).
• No missing value in the vital clinical data such as eGFR and UACR.

Exclusion criteria

• Patients with large kidney space occupying disease such as kidney renal cyst and tumor were excluded.
• Ultrasound images with severe shadow or incomplete kidney border were excluded.