Research Article

Multiparametric Magnetic Resonance Imaging Information Fusion Using Graph Convolutional Network for Glioma Grading

Table 1

Demonstration of the graph convolution module can fuse contextual information in MRI with different imaging parameters to improve the performance of the CNN models.

DatasetMethodGoogLeNet-Inceptionv3EfficientNet-b3ResNet-34AlexNetVGGNet-16
AUCACCAUCACCAUCACCAUCACCAUCACC

BraTS2020T1CE0.9110.8930.9210.8930.9320.9070.9100.8800.9150.867
G-TICE0.9310.9070.9360.9200.9460.9200.9430.9070.9470.893
T10.8510.8130.8840.8670.8960.8400.8040.8000.8540.827
G-T10.8600.8530.8960.8800.9060.8530.8160.8270.8630.853
T20.8930.8670.8920.8530.8490.8400.8670.8530.8760.840
G-T20.9040.8930.9040.8930.8730.8800.8860.8800.9030.880
FLAIR0.8970.8270.8850.8530.8940.8530.8020.8270.8890.840
G-FLAIR0.9110.8670.9050.8670.9080.8670.8340.8400.9150.867
MMIF-GCN0.9630.9200.9740.9330.9860.9470.9540.9330.9740.920

GliomaHPPH2018T1CE0.8100.7870.9520.8510.8420.7870.8020.8090.8670.787
G-TICE0.9040.8510.9650.8940.9000.8300.8460.8300.9290.872
T10.8980.8720.9230.8720.9210.8940.7290.7660.9330.872
G-T10.9130.8940.9420.9150.9620.9150.8210.8300.9420.936
T20.6920.7660.7980.7450.7290.7450.6290.6600.8560.766
G-T20.7690.7870.8560.8510.8130.7870.7310.8090.8630.830
FLAIR0.8730.8090.9670.8720.9310.8720.8380.7660.8790.851
G-FLAIR0.8900.8300.9730.9150.9420.8940.8460.8090.8960.872
MMIF-GCN0.9600.9361.0000.9790.9960.9790.8810.8510.9790.957

Note. G means to fuse context information with GCN. The results of our study are shown in bold.