Body weight is an indispensable parameter for determination of contrast medium dose, appropriate drug dosing, or management of radiation dose. However, we cannot always determine the accurate patient body weight at the time of computed tomography (CT) scanning, especially in emergency care. Time-efficient methods to estimate body weight with high accuracy before diagnostic CT scans currently do not exist. In this study, on the basis of 1831 chest and 519 abdominal CT scout images with the corresponding body weights, we developed and evaluated deep-learning models capable of automatically predicting body weight from CT scout images. In the model performance assessment, there were strong correlations between the actual and predicted body weights in both chest (ρ = 0.947, p < 0.001) and abdominal datasets (ρ = 0.869, p < 0.001). The mean absolute errors were 2.75 kg and 4.77 kg for the chest and abdominal datasets, respectively. Our proposed method with deep learning is useful for estimating body weights from CT scout images with clinically acceptable accuracy and potentially could be useful for determining the contrast medium dose and CT dose management in adult patients with unknown body weight.
Body weight is an indispensable parameter for determination of the dose of contrast media, appropriate drug dosing, or management of radiation dose. However, we cannot always determine the accurate patient body weight at the time of computed tomography (CT) scan, especially in emergency care. In this study, based on 1831 chest and 519 abdominal CT scout images with the corresponding body weight, we developed deep learning models capable of automatically predicting body weight from CT scout images. In the assessment of model performance, there were strong correlations between the actual and predicted body weight both in chest (r = 0.955, p < 0.001) and abdominal datasets (r = 0.901, p < 0.001). Mean absolute errors were 2.75 kg and 4.77 kg for chest and abdominal datasets, respectively. The proposed method was able to predict body weight from chest and abdominal CT scout images with high accuracy. Body weight derived from our method may show potential use in determination of the dose of contrast media and management of radiation dose in adult patients with unknown body weight.
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