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Dr. Kirstin Small

at Brigham and Womens Hospital

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Proceedings Article | 4 April 2022 Presentation + Paper

A novel CNN+LSTM approach to classify frontal chest x-rays for spine fractures

Larissa Schudlo, Yiting Xie, Kirstin Small, Ben Graf

Proceedings Volume 12033, 120331B (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2607416

KEYWORDS: Spine, Chest imaging, X-rays, X-ray imaging, Injuries, 3D image processing, Image classification, Feature extraction

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Spine fractures are serious injuries that are often missed on standard chest x-rays, especially the frontal view. Automatic detection using artificial intelligence could help reduce these missed findings. To detect fractures, radiologists compare the morphological characteristics within the ordered vertebrae sequence. To this end, we designed a time-distributed CNN+LSTM model with Res-Net-inspired backbone to classify a sequence of vertebral image patches extracted from a frontal chest x-ray. While the CNN component encapsulates spatial characteristics of vertebrae, the time-distributed aspect ensures the sequential information of each image is explicitly preserved and better exploited by the LSTM. A Dense UNet was trained to automatically detect vertebrae locations for patch extraction. For this retrospective researchonly study, a comparative analysis was performed using six random partitions of 1250 images, and the AUCs for each partition were averaged. Using manual vertebrae detection to extract vertebral images patches from the x-rays, the proposed method achieved an average AUC of 83.17 ± 3.8%. Using the Dense UNet for automatic vertebrae detection in the pipeline, the proposed method achieved an average AUC of 79.3 ± 1.8% in differentiating x-rays with and without vertebral fractures. This is an average improvement of 6.0% relative to the same CNN+LSTM architecture that is not time distributed. Using a model ensemble, an AUC of 82.7 ± 3.7% was achieved. These findings suggest the importance of exploiting both sequential and spatial information for fracture detection.

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