Re-Modelling 99m-Technetium Pertechnetate Thyroid Uptake; Statistical, Machine Learning and Deep Learning Approaches

Conclusion: Thyroid scintigraphy is useful in identifying hyperthyroid patients suitable for radioiodine therapy when using an appropriately validated cut-off for the patient population (4.5% in this population). ML ANN algorithms can be developed to improve accuracy as second readers systems when biochemistry results are available. DL CNN algorithms can be developed to improve accuracy in the absence of biochemistry results. ML and DL do not displace the role of the physician in thyroid scintigraphy but could be used as second reader systems to minimize errors and increase confidence.PMID:34876477 | DOI:10.2967/jnmt.121.263081
Source: Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology - Category: Nuclear Medicine Authors: Source Type: research