Comparative analysis of semantic localization accuracies between adult and pediatric DICOM CT images

Duncan Robertson; Sayan D. Pathak; Antonio Criminisi; Steve White; David Haynor; Oliver Chen; Khan Siddiqui

doi:10.1117/12.912428

16 February 2012 Comparative analysis of semantic localization accuracies between adult and pediatric DICOM CT images

Duncan Robertson, Sayan D. Pathak, Antonio Criminisi, Steve White, David Haynor, Oliver Chen, Khan Siddiqui

Proceedings Volume 8319, Medical Imaging 2012: Advanced PACS-based Imaging Informatics and Therapeutic Applications; 83190N (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.912428
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2012, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Existing literature describes a variety of techniques for semantic annotation of DICOM CT images, i.e. the automatic detection and localization of anatomical structures. Semantic annotation facilitates enhanced image navigation, linkage of DICOM image content and non-image clinical data, content-based image retrieval, and image registration. A key challenge for semantic annotation algorithms is inter-patient variability. However, while the algorithms described in published literature have been shown to cope adequately with the variability in test sets comprising adult CT scans, the problem presented by the even greater variability in pediatric anatomy has received very little attention. Most existing semantic annotation algorithms can only be extended to work on scans of both adult and pediatric patients by adapting parameters heuristically in light of patient size. In contrast, our approach, which uses random regression forests ('RRF'), learns an implicit model of scale variation automatically using training data. In consequence, anatomical structures can be localized accurately in both adult and pediatric CT studies without the need for parameter adaptation or additional information about patient scale. We show how the RRF algorithm is able to learn scale invariance from a combined training set containing a mixture of pediatric and adult scans. Resulting localization accuracy for both adult and pediatric data remains comparable with that obtained using RRFs trained and tested using only adult data.

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Duncan Robertson, Sayan D. Pathak, Antonio Criminisi, Steve White, David Haynor, Oliver Chen, and Khan Siddiqui "Comparative analysis of semantic localization accuracies between adult and pediatric DICOM CT images", Proc. SPIE 8319, Medical Imaging 2012: Advanced PACS-based Imaging Informatics and Therapeutic Applications, 83190N (16 February 2012); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.912428

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