Pelvic artery calcification detection on CT scans using convolutional neural networks

Jiamin Liu; Le Lu; Jianhua Yao; Mohammadhadi Bagheri; Ronald M. Summers

doi:10.1117/12.2255247

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3 March 2017 Pelvic artery calcification detection on CT scans using convolutional neural networks

Jiamin Liu, Le Lu, Jianhua Yao, Mohammadhadi Bagheri, Ronald M. Summers

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Proceedings Volume 10134, Medical Imaging 2017: Computer-Aided Diagnosis; 101341A (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2255247
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2017, Orlando, Florida, United States

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Artery calcification is observed commonly in elderly patients, especially in patients with chronic kidney disease, and may affect coronary, carotid and peripheral arteries. Vascular calcification has been associated with many clinical outcomes. Manual identification of calcification in CT scans requires substantial expert interaction, which makes it time-consuming and infeasible for large-scale studies. Many works have been proposed for coronary artery calcification detection in cardiac CT scans. In these works, coronary artery extraction is commonly required for calcification detection. However, there are few works about abdominal or pelvic artery calcification detection. In this work, we present a method for automatic pelvic artery calcification detection on CT scan. This method uses the recent advanced faster region-based convolutional neural network (R-CNN) to directly identify artery calcification without a need for artery extraction since pelvic artery extraction itself is challenging. Our method first generates category-independent region proposals for each slice of the input CT scan using region proposal networks (RPN). Then, each region proposal is jointly classified and refined by softmax classifier and bounding box regressor. We applied the detection method to 500 images from 20 CT scans of patients for evaluation. The detection system achieved a 77.4% average precision and a 85% sensitivity at 1 false positive per image.

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Jiamin Liu, Le Lu, Jianhua Yao, Mohammadhadi Bagheri, and Ronald M. Summers "Pelvic artery calcification detection on CT scans using convolutional neural networks", Proc. SPIE 10134, Medical Imaging 2017: Computer-Aided Diagnosis, 101341A (3 March 2017); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2255247

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