scholarly journals A Novel Multiscale Gaussian-Matched Filter Using Neural Networks for the Segmentation of X-Ray Coronary Angiograms

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivan Cruz-Aceves ◽  
Fernando Cervantes-Sanchez ◽  
Maria Susana Avila-Garcia
Keyword(s):  
Neural Networks ◽  
Matched Filter ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Ground Truth ◽  
Detection Methods ◽  
Test Set ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Accuracy Measure ◽  
Segmentation Methods ◽  
Coronary Angiograms

The accurate and efficient segmentation of coronary arteries in X-ray angiograms represents an essential task for computer-aided diagnosis. This paper presents a new multiscale Gaussian-matched filter (MGMF) based on artificial neural networks. The proposed method consists of two different stages. In the first stage, MGMF is used for detecting vessel-like structures while reducing image noise. The results of MGMF are compared with those obtained using six GMF-based detection methods in terms of the area (Az) under the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve. In the second stage, ten thresholding methods of the state of the art are compared in order to classify the magnitude of the multiscale Gaussian response into vessel and nonvessel pixels, respectively. The accuracy measure is used to analyze the segmentation methods, by comparing the results with a set of 100 X-ray coronary angiograms, which were outlined by a specialist to form the ground truth. Finally, the proposed method is compared with seven state-of-the-art vessel segmentation methods. The vessel detection results using the proposed MGMF method achieved an Az=0.9357 with a training set of 50 angiograms and Az=0.9362 with the test set of 50 images. In addition, the segmentation results using the intraclass variance thresholding method provided a segmentation accuracy of 0.9568 with the test set of coronary angiograms.

scholarly journals Automatic Segmentation of Coronary Arteries in X-ray Angiograms using Multiscale Analysis and Artificial Neural Networks

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (24) ◽  
pp. 5507 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fernando Cervantes-Sanchez ◽  
Ivan Cruz-Aceves ◽  
Arturo Hernandez-Aguirre ◽  
Martha Alicia Hernandez-Gonzalez ◽  
Sergio Eduardo Solorio-Meza
Keyword(s):  
Neural Networks ◽  
Coronary Arteries ◽  
Multiscale Analysis ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Binary Classification ◽  
Automatic Segmentation ◽  
Classification Rate ◽  
Test Set ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Vessel Extraction

This paper presents a novel method for the automatic segmentation of coronary arteries in X-ray angiograms, based on multiscale analysis and neural networks. The multiscale analysis is performed by using Gaussian filters in the spatial domain and Gabor filters in the frequency domain, which are used as inputs by a multilayer perceptron (MLP) for the enhancement of vessel-like structures. The optimal design of the MLP is selected following a statistical comparative analysis, using a training set of 100 angiograms, and the area under the ROC curve ( A z ) for assessment of the detection performance. The detection results of the proposed method are compared with eleven state-of-the-art blood vessel enhancement methods, obtaining the highest performance of A z = 0.9775 , with a test set of 30 angiograms. The database of 130 X-ray coronary angiograms has been outlined by a specialist and approved by a medical ethics committee. On the other hand, the vessel extraction technique was selected from fourteen binary classification algorithms applied to the multiscale filter response. Finally, the proposed segmentation method is compared with twelve state-of-the-art vessel segmentation methods in terms of six binary evaluation metrics, where the proposed method provided the most accurate coronary arteries segmentation with a classification rate of 0.9698 and Dice coefficient of 0.6857 , using the test set of angiograms. In addition to the experimental results, the performance in the detection and segmentation steps of the proposed method have also shown that it can be highly suitable for systems that perform computer-aided diagnosis in X-ray imaging.

scholarly journals COVID-19 infection map generation and detection from chest X-ray images

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Aysen Degerli ◽  
Mete Ahishali ◽  
Mehmet Yamac ◽  
Serkan Kiranyaz ◽  
Muhammad E. H. Chowdhury ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
State Of The Art ◽  
Ground Truth ◽  
Clinical Use ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Learning Techniques ◽  
Map Generation ◽  
Severity Grading ◽  
Chest X Ray ◽  
Novel Method ◽  
Aided Diagnosis

AbstractComputer-aided diagnosis has become a necessity for accurate and immediate coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) detection to aid treatment and prevent the spread of the virus. Numerous studies have proposed to use Deep Learning techniques for COVID-19 diagnosis. However, they have used very limited chest X-ray (CXR) image repositories for evaluation with a small number, a few hundreds, of COVID-19 samples. Moreover, these methods can neither localize nor grade the severity of COVID-19 infection. For this purpose, recent studies proposed to explore the activation maps of deep networks. However, they remain inaccurate for localizing the actual infestation making them unreliable for clinical use. This study proposes a novel method for the joint localization, severity grading, and detection of COVID-19 from CXR images by generating the so-called infection maps. To accomplish this, we have compiled the largest dataset with 119,316 CXR images including 2951 COVID-19 samples, where the annotation of the ground-truth segmentation masks is performed on CXRs by a novel collaborative human–machine approach. Furthermore, we publicly release the first CXR dataset with the ground-truth segmentation masks of the COVID-19 infected regions. A detailed set of experiments show that state-of-the-art segmentation networks can learn to localize COVID-19 infection with an F1-score of 83.20%, which is significantly superior to the activation maps created by the previous methods. Finally, the proposed approach achieved a COVID-19 detection performance with 94.96% sensitivity and 99.88% specificity.

scholarly journals Automated Dental Identification with Lowest Cost Path-Based Teeth and Jaw Separation

2016 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 44-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan-Vidar Ølberg ◽  
Morten Goodwin
Keyword(s):  
High Stability ◽  
Distance Measure ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Test Set ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Dental Identification ◽  
Verification Process ◽  
Stability And Accuracy ◽  
New System ◽  
Dental Work

Abstract Teeth are some of the most resilient tissues of the human body. Because of their placement, teeth often yield intact indicators even when other metrics, such as finger prints and DNA, are missing. Forensics on dental identification is now mostly manual work which is time and resource intensive. Systems for automated human identification from dental X-ray images have the potential to greatly reduce the necessary efforts spent on dental identification, but it requires a system with high stability and accuracy so that the results can be trusted. This paper proposes a new system for automated dental X-ray identification. The scheme extracts tooth and dental work contours from the X-ray images and uses the Hausdorff-distance measure for ranking persons. This combination of state-of-the-art approaches with a novel lowest cost path-based method for separating a dental X-ray image into individual teeth, is able to achieve comparable and better results than what is available in the literature. The proposed scheme is fully functional and is used to accurately identify people within a real dental database. The system is able to perfectly separate 88.7% of the teeth in the test set. Further, in the verification process, the system ranks the correct person in top in 86% of the cases, and among the top five in an astonishing 94% of the cases. The approach has compelling potential to significantly reduce the time spent on dental identification.

scholarly journals Self-Supervised Learning for Generalizable Out-of-Distribution Detection

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (04) ◽  
pp. 5216-5223 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sina Mohseni ◽  
Mandar Pitale ◽  
JBS Yadawa ◽  
Zhangyang Wang
Keyword(s):  
Neural Networks ◽  
Autonomous Vehicles ◽  
Deep Neural Networks ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Feature Learning ◽  
Detection Methods ◽  
Training Set ◽  
Safety Critical ◽  
Multiple Image ◽  
A New Technique

The real-world deployment of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) in safety-critical applications such as autonomous vehicles needs to address a variety of DNNs' vulnerabilities, one of which being detecting and rejecting out-of-distribution outliers that might result in unpredictable fatal errors. We propose a new technique relying on self-supervision for generalizable out-of-distribution (OOD) feature learning and rejecting those samples at the inference time. Our technique does not need to pre-know the distribution of targeted OOD samples and incur no extra overheads compared to other methods. We perform multiple image classification experiments and observe our technique to perform favorably against state-of-the-art OOD detection methods. Interestingly, we witness that our method also reduces in-distribution classification risk via rejecting samples near the boundaries of the training set distribution.

scholarly journals Joint Image Emotion Classification and Distribution Learning via Deep Convolutional Neural Network

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jufeng Yang ◽  
Dongyu She ◽  
Ming Sun
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Neural Networks ◽  
Prior Knowledge ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Ground Truth ◽  
Majority Voting ◽  
Emotion Classification ◽  
Voting Scheme ◽  
Label Distribution ◽  
Similarity Information

Visual sentiment analysis is attracting more and more attention with the increasing tendency to express emotions through visual contents. Recent algorithms in convolutional neural networks (CNNs) considerably advance the emotion classification, which aims to distinguish differences among emotional categories and assigns a single dominant label to each image. However, the task is inherently ambiguous since an image usually evokes multiple emotions and its annotation varies from person to person. In this work, we address the problem via label distribution learning (LDL) and develop a multi-task deep framework by jointly optimizing both classification and distribution prediction. While the proposed method prefers to the distribution dataset with annotations of different voters, the majority voting scheme is widely adopted as the ground truth in this area, and few dataset has provided multiple affective labels. Hence, we further exploit two weak forms of prior knowledge, which are expressed as similarity information between labels, to generate emotional distribution for each category. The experiments conducted on both distribution datasets, i.e., Emotion6, Flickr_LDL, Twitter_LDL, and the largest single emotion dataset, i.e., Flickr and Instagram, demonstrate the proposed method outperforms the state-of-the-art approaches.

Methodology for Automatic Control of Automotive Al-Si Cast Components

2007 ◽  
Vol 539-543 ◽  
pp. 339-344 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mariusz Krupinski ◽  
Leszek Adam Dobrzański ◽  
Jerry Sokolowski ◽  
Wojciech Kasprzak ◽  
Glenn E. Byczynski
Keyword(s):  
Neural Networks ◽  
Quality Control ◽  
Defect Detection ◽  
Al Alloys ◽  
Detection Methods ◽  
Casting Method ◽  
Vacuum Casting ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Computer Based ◽  
Using Data

Computer based classification methodology is presented in the paper for defects being developed in the Al alloys as the car engine elements are made from them produced with the vacuum casting method. Identification of defects was carried out using data acquired from digital images obtained using the X-ray defect detection methods. The developed methodology as well as the related X-ray image analysis and quality control neural networks based software were carried out to solve this problem.

scholarly journals Critical evaluation of deep neural networks for wrist fracture detection

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Abu Mohammed Raisuddin ◽  
Elias Vaattovaara ◽  
Mika Nevalainen ◽  
Marko Nikki ◽  
Elina Järvenpää ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Neural Networks ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Critical Evaluation ◽  
Conventional Radiography ◽  
Wrist Fracture ◽  
Fracture Detection ◽  
Test Set ◽  
X Ray Imaging ◽  
High Incidence ◽  
High Incidence Rate

AbstractWrist Fracture is the most common type of fracture with a high incidence rate. Conventional radiography (i.e. X-ray imaging) is used for wrist fracture detection routinely, but occasionally fracture delineation poses issues and an additional confirmation by computed tomography (CT) is needed for diagnosis. Recent advances in the field of Deep Learning (DL), a subfield of Artificial Intelligence (AI), have shown that wrist fracture detection can be automated using Convolutional Neural Networks. However, previous studies did not pay close attention to the difficult cases which can only be confirmed via CT imaging. In this study, we have developed and analyzed a state-of-the-art DL-based pipeline for wrist (distal radius) fracture detection—DeepWrist, and evaluated it against one general population test set, and one challenging test set comprising only cases requiring confirmation by CT. Our results reveal that a typical state-of-the-art approach, such as DeepWrist, while having a near-perfect performance on the general independent test set, has a substantially lower performance on the challenging test set—average precision of 0.99 (0.99–0.99) versus 0.64 (0.46–0.83), respectively. Similarly, the area under the ROC curve was of 0.99 (0.98–0.99) versus 0.84 (0.72–0.93), respectively. Our findings highlight the importance of a meticulous analysis of DL-based models before clinical use, and unearth the need for more challenging settings for testing medical AI systems.

scholarly journals Rapidly deploying a COVID-19 decision support system in one of the largest Brazilian hospitals

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 146045822110330
Author(s):  
Diedre Carmo ◽  
Israel Campiotti ◽  
Lívia Rodrigues ◽  
Irene Fantini ◽  
Gustavo Pinheiro ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Computed Tomography ◽  
Neural Networks ◽  
Decision Support ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Natural Images ◽  
Dice Coefficient ◽  
Median Response ◽  
X Ray ◽  
System A ◽  
Picture Archiving And Communication

The COVID-19 pandemic generated research interest in automated models to perform classification and segmentation from medical imaging of COVID-19 patients, However, applications in real-world scenarios are still needed. We describe the development and deployment of COVID-19 decision support and segmentation system. A partnership with a Brazilian radiologist consortium, gave us access to 1000s of labeled computed tomography (CT) and X-ray images from São Paulo Hospitals. The system used EfficientNet and EfficientDet networks, state-of-the-art convolutional neural networks for natural images classification and segmentation, in a real-time scalable scenario in communication with a Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS). Additionally, the system could reject non-related images, using header analysis and classifiers. We achieved CT and X-ray classification accuracies of 0.94 and 0.98, respectively, and Dice coefficient for lung and covid findings segmentations of 0.98 and 0.73, respectively. The median response time was 7 s for X-ray and 4 min for CT.

scholarly journals COVID-19 detection from chest X-Ray images using Deep Learning and Convolutional Neural Networks

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonios Makris ◽  
Ioannis Kontopoulos ◽  
Konstantinos Tserpes
Keyword(s):  
Neural Networks ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Convolutional Neural Networks ◽  
Bacterial Pneumonia ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Classification Performance ◽  
Black Swan ◽  
Healthy Individuals ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Chest X Ray

AbstractThe COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 has highlighted the need to pull all available resources towards the mitigation of the devastating effects of such “Black Swan” events. Towards that end, we investigated the option to employ technology in order to assist the diagnosis of patients infected by the virus. As such, several state-of-the-art pre-trained convolutional neural networks were evaluated as of their ability to detect infected patients from chest X-Ray images. A dataset was created as a mix of publicly available X-ray images from patients with confirmed COVID-19 disease, common bacterial pneumonia and healthy individuals. To mitigate the small number of samples, we employed transfer learning, which transfers knowledge extracted by pre-trained models to the model to be trained. The experimental results demonstrate that the classification performance can reach an accuracy of 95% for the best two models.

scholarly journals An iterative Bayesian approach for liver analysis: tumors validation study

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yoav Taieb ◽  
Ofer Eliassaf ◽  
Moti Freiman ◽  
Leo Joskowicz ◽  
Jacob Sosna
Keyword(s):  
Distribution Function ◽  
Active Contours ◽  
Automatic Segmentation ◽  
Ground Truth ◽  
Seed Selection ◽  
Test Set ◽  
Clinical Dataset ◽  
Manual Adjustment ◽  
Internal Parameters ◽  
Segmentation Methods

We present a new method for the simultaneous, nearly automatic segmentation of liver contours, vessels, and tumors from abdominal CTA scans. The method repeatedly applies multi-resolution, multi-class smoothed Bayesian classification followed by morphological adjustment and active contours refinement. It uses multi-class and voxel neighborhood information to compute an accurate intensity distribution function for each class. Only one user-defined voxel seed for the liver and additional seeds according to the number of tumors inside the liver are required for initialization. The algorithm do not require manual adjustment of internal parameters. In this work, a retrospective study on a validated clinical dataset totaling 20 tumors from 9 patients CTAs� was performed. An aggregated competition score of 61 was obtained on the test set of this database. In addition we measured the robustness of our algorithm to different seeds initializations. These results suggest that our method is clinically applicable, accurate, efficient, and robust to seed selection compared to manually generated ground truth segmentation and to other semi-automatic segmentation methods.

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