An Automated Deep Learning Method for Tile AO/OTA Pelvic Fracture Severity Grading from Trauma whole-Body CT.

Admission trauma whole-body CT is routinely employed as a first-line diagnostic tool for characterizing pelvic fracture severity. Tile AO/OTA grade based on the presence or absence of rotational and translational instability corresponds with need for interventions including massive transfusion and a...

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Published in:Journal of Digital Imaging Vol. 34; no. 1; pp. 53 - 66
Main Authors: Dreizin, David, Goldmann, Florian, LeBedis, Christina, Boscak, Alexis, Dattwyler, Matthew, Bodanapally, Uttam, Li, Guang, Anderson, Stephan, Maier, Andreas, Unberath, Mathias
Format: diagnostic images pictorial research tables/charts Journal Article
Published: Springer Nature Feb2021
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          Dreizin, David
          Goldmann, Florian
          LeBedis, Christina
          Boscak, Alexis
          Dattwyler, Matthew
          Bodanapally, Uttam
          Li, Guang
          Anderson, Stephan
          Maier, Andreas
          Unberath, Mathias
        affil: Emergency and Trauma Imaging, Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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          Automation
          Deep Learning Methods
          Pelvic Fractures Radiography
          Trauma Severity Indices
          Trauma Radiography
          Tomography, X-Ray Computed
          Human
          Neural Networks (Computer) Methods
          Pelvic Bones Pathology
          Joint Instability Surgery
          Female
          Male
          Adult
          Middle Age
          Adult: 19-44 years
          Middle Aged: 45-64 years
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      ab: Admission trauma whole-body CT is routinely employed as a first-line diagnostic tool for characterizing pelvic fracture severity. Tile AO/OTA grade based on the presence or absence of rotational and translational instability corresponds with need for interventions including massive transfusion and angioembolization. An automated method could be highly beneficial for point of care triage in this critical time-sensitive setting. A dataset of 373 trauma whole-body CTs collected from two busy level 1 trauma centers with consensus Tile AO/OTA grading by three trauma radiologists was used to train and test a triplanar parallel concatenated network incorporating orthogonal full-thickness multiplanar reformat (MPR) views as input with a ResNeXt-50 backbone. Input pelvic images were first derived using an automated registration and cropping technique. Performance of the network for classification of rotational and translational instability was compared with that of (1) an analogous triplanar architecture incorporating an LSTM RNN network, (2) a previously described 3D autoencoder-based method, and (3) grading by a fourth independent blinded radiologist with trauma expertise. Confusion matrix results were derived, anchored to peak Matthews correlation coefficient (MCC). Associations with clinical outcomes were determined using Fisher's exact test. The triplanar parallel concatenated method had the highest accuracies for discriminating translational and rotational instability (85% and 74%, respectively), with specificity, recall, and F1 score of 93.4%, 56.5%, and 0.63 for translational instability and 71.7%, 75.7%, and 0.77 for rotational instability. Accuracy of this method was equivalent to the single radiologist read for rotational instability (74.0% versus 76.7%, p = 0.40), but significantly higher for translational instability (85.0% versus 75.1, p = 0.0007). Mean inference time was < 0.1 s per test image. Translational instability determined with this method was associated with need for angioembolization and massive transfusion (p = 0.002–0.008). Saliency maps demonstrated that the network focused on the sacroiliac complex and pubic symphysis, in keeping with the AO/OTA grading paradigm. A multiview concatenated deep network leveraging 3D information from orthogonal thick-MPR images predicted rotationally and translationally unstable pelvic fractures with accuracy comparable to an independent reader with trauma radiology expertise. Model output demonstrated significant association with key clinical outcomes.
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