Validation of an image-based technique to assess the perceptual quality of clinical chest radiographs with an observer study

Yuan Lin; Kingshuk R. Choudhury; H. Page McAdams; David H. Foos; Ehsan Samei

doi:10.1117/12.2043993

19 March 2014 Validation of an image-based technique to assess the perceptual quality of clinical chest radiographs with an observer study

Yuan Lin, Kingshuk R. Choudhury, H. Page McAdams, David H. Foos, Ehsan Samei

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Proceedings Volume 9033, Medical Imaging 2014: Physics of Medical Imaging; 90335H (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2043993
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2014, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

We previously proposed a novel image-based quality assessment technique¹ to assess the perceptual quality of clinical chest radiographs. In this paper, an observer study was designed and conducted to systematically validate this technique. Ten metrics were involved in the observer study, i.e., lung grey level, lung detail, lung noise, riblung contrast, rib sharpness, mediastinum detail, mediastinum noise, mediastinum alignment, subdiaphragm-lung contrast, and subdiaphragm area. For each metric, three tasks were successively presented to the observers. In each task, six ROI images were randomly presented in a row and observers were asked to rank the images only based on a designated quality and disregard the other qualities. A range slider on the top of the images was used for observers to indicate the acceptable range based on the corresponding perceptual attribute. Five boardcertificated radiologists from Duke participated in this observer study on a DICOM calibrated diagnostic display workstation and under low ambient lighting conditions. The observer data were analyzed in terms of the correlations between the observer ranking orders and the algorithmic ranking orders. Based on the collected acceptable ranges, quality consistency ranges were statistically derived. The observer study showed that, for each metric, the averaged ranking orders of the participated observers were strongly correlated with the algorithmic orders. For the lung grey level, the observer ranking orders completely accorded with the algorithmic ranking orders. The quality consistency ranges derived from this observer study were close to these derived from our previous study. The observer study indicates that the proposed image-based quality assessment technique provides a robust reflection of the perceptual image quality of the clinical chest radiographs. The derived quality consistency ranges can be used to automatically predict the acceptability of a clinical chest radiograph.

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Yuan Lin, Kingshuk R. Choudhury, H. Page McAdams, David H. Foos, and Ehsan Samei "Validation of an image-based technique to assess the perceptual quality of clinical chest radiographs with an observer study", Proc. SPIE 9033, Medical Imaging 2014: Physics of Medical Imaging, 90335H (19 March 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2043993

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