Artificial Intelligence System for Automatic Quantitative Analysis and Radiology Reporting of Leg Length Radiographs.

Leg length discrepancies are common orthopedic problems with the potential for poor functional outcomes. These are frequently assessed using bilateral leg length radiographs. The objective was to determine whether an artificial intelligence (AI)-based image analysis system can accurately interpret l...

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Publicado en:Journal of Digital Imaging Vol. 35; no. 6; pp. 1494 - 1506
Autores principales: Larson, Nathan, Nguyen, Chantal, Do, Bao, Kaul, Aryan, Larson, Anna, Wang, Shannon, Wang, Erin, Bultman, Eric, Stevens, Kate, Pai, Jason, Ha, Audrey, Boutin, Robert, Fredericson, Michael, Do, Long, Fang, Charles
Formato: diagnostic images research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Springer Nature Dec2022
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          Larson, Nathan
          Nguyen, Chantal
          Do, Bao
          Kaul, Aryan
          Larson, Anna
          Wang, Shannon
          Wang, Erin
          Bultman, Eric
          Stevens, Kate
          Pai, Jason
          Ha, Audrey
          Boutin, Robert
          Fredericson, Michael
          Do, Long
          Fang, Charles
        affil: Computer Science Department, Brigham Young University, Campus Dr, 3361 TMCB84604, Provo, UT, USA
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          Leg Length Inequality Radiography
          Artificial Intelligence
          Lower Extremity Radiography
          Institutional Review
          Extremities Radiography
          Tertiary Health Care
          Neural Networks (Computer)
          Specialties, Medical
          Human
          Descriptive Statistics
          Correlation Coefficient
          Deep Learning
          Femur Anatomy and Histology
          Tibia Anatomy and Histology
          Pelvic Tilt
      ab: Leg length discrepancies are common orthopedic problems with the potential for poor functional outcomes. These are frequently assessed using bilateral leg length radiographs. The objective was to determine whether an artificial intelligence (AI)-based image analysis system can accurately interpret long leg length radiographic images. We built an end-to-end system to analyze leg length radiographs and generate reports like radiologists, which involves measurement of lengths (femur, tibia, entire leg) and angles (mechanical axis and pelvic tilt), describes presence and location of orthopedic hardware, and reports laterality discrepancies. After IRB approval, a dataset of 1,726 extremities (863 images) from consecutive examinations at a tertiary referral center was retrospectively acquired and partitioned into train/validation and test sets. The training set was annotated and used to train a fasterRCNN-ResNet101 object detection convolutional neural network. A second-stage classifier using a EfficientNet-D0 model was trained to recognize the presence or absence of hardware within extracted joint image patches. The system was deployed in a custom web application that generated a preliminary radiology report. Performance of the system was evaluated using a holdout 220 image test set, annotated by 3 musculoskeletal fellowship trained radiologists. At the object detection level, the system demonstrated a recall of 0.98 and precision of 0.96 in detecting anatomic landmarks. Correlation coefficients between radiologist and AI-generated measurements for femur, tibia, and whole-leg lengths were > 0.99, with mean error of < 1%. Correlation coefficients for mechanical axis angle and pelvic tilt were 0.98 and 0.86, respectively, with mean absolute error of < 1°. AI hardware detection demonstrated an accuracy of 99.8%. Automatic quantitative and qualitative analysis of leg length radiographs using deep learning is feasible and holds potential in improving radiologist workflow.
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