Patient Re-Identification Based on Deep Metric Learning in Trunk Computed Tomography Images Acquired from Devices from Different Vendors.

During radiologic interpretation, radiologists read patient identifiers from the metadata of medical images to recognize the patient being examined. However, it is challenging for radiologists to identify "incorrect" metadata and patient identification errors. We propose a method that uses a patient...

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Publicado en:Journal of Digital Imaging Vol. 37; no. 3; pp. 1124 - 1137
Autores principales: Ueda, Yasuyuki, Ogawa, Daiki, Ishida, Takayuki
Formato: diagnostic images equations & formulas pictorial research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Springer Nature Jun2024
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          Tomography, X-Ray Computed Methods
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      ab: During radiologic interpretation, radiologists read patient identifiers from the metadata of medical images to recognize the patient being examined. However, it is challenging for radiologists to identify "incorrect" metadata and patient identification errors. We propose a method that uses a patient re-identification technique to link correct metadata to an image set of computed tomography images of a trunk with lost or wrongly assigned metadata. This method is based on a feature vector matching technique that uses a deep feature extractor to adapt to the cross-vendor domain contained in the scout computed tomography image dataset. To identify "incorrect" metadata, we calculated the highest similarity score between a follow-up image and a stored baseline image linked to the correct metadata. The re-identification performance tests whether the image with the highest similarity score belongs to the same patient, i.e., whether the metadata attached to the image are correct. The similarity scores between the follow-up and baseline images for the same "correct" patients were generally greater than those for "incorrect" patients. The proposed feature extractor was sufficiently robust to extract individual distinguishable features without additional training, even for unknown scout computed tomography images. Furthermore, the proposed augmentation technique further improved the re-identification performance of the subset for different vendors by incorporating changes in width magnification due to changes in patient table height during each examination. We believe that metadata checking using the proposed method would help detect the metadata with an "incorrect" patient identifier assigned due to unavoidable errors such as human error.
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