智能化婴儿髋关节发育性不良辅助筛查系统

1)南京医科大学生物医生工程与信息学院,江苏南京211166; 2)深圳大学医学部生物医学工程学院,广东深圳 518060; 3)广东省妇幼保健院超声诊断科,广东广州511400

人工智能; 髋关节发育性不良; 标准切面; 图像分类; 实例分割; 计算机辅助诊断; 深度学习; 特征提取

Intelligent auxiliary screening system for developmental dysplasia of the hip of infants
HU Xindi1, YANG Xin2, ZHOU Xu2, WANG Limin3, LIANG Yongdong3, SHANG Ning3, NI Dong2, and GU Ning1

1)School of Biomedical Engineering and Information, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 211166, Jiangsu Province, P.R.China;2)School of Biomedical Engineering, Shenzhen University, Health Science Center, Shenzhen 518060, Guangdong Province, P.R.China;3)Ultrasound Department, Guangdong Women and Children Hospital, Guangzhou 511400, Guangdong Province, P.R.China

artificial intelligence; developmental dysplasia of the hip; standard plane; image classification; instance segmentation; computer aided diagnosis; deep learning; feature extraction

DOI: 10.3724/SP.J.1249.2021.04408

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髋关节发育性不良(developmental dysplasia of the hip, DDH)是常见的先天性关节疾病之一.目前临床上常采用Graf法对婴儿进行髋关节超声筛查,以提早发现病情,提高治愈率.Graf方法高度依赖标准切面的选取和关键解剖结构的识别,对医生的知识和经验要求较高.提出智能化婴儿DDH辅助筛查系统,建立自动化筛查流程,实现自动识别标准切面并测量发育指标α角和β角.标准切面自动识别模块基于少样本单类别分类(few-shot one-class classifier, FOC)的神经网络,通过自监督训练方式学习标准切面的特征信息,预测图像的标准化得分. α角和β角快速测量模块基于快速实例网络(fast instance network, FIN),通过高效的单阶段的网络架构和多任务学习模式,对标准切面实时测量并将结果可视化.分别通过自动识别标准切面和自动测量发育指标两类实验对所建立的辅助筛查系统进行验证.与单类别支持向量机、深度支持向量数据描述网络和Ganomaly网络相比,FOC方法的接受者操作特征曲线下面积达到76.43%,性能最优; 与全卷积网络、Unet和deeplab V3相比,采用FIN模块测量的α角和β角的平均绝对误差分别为2.48°和4.38°,推理速度达到33.88帧/s,速度最快且性能最优.实验结果表明,该系统可降低对训练数据量的依赖,有助于提升DDH临床筛查的同质化水平,控制测量质量,提高临床筛查的工作效率.
Developmental dysplasia of the hip(DDH)is one of the common congenital joint diseases. In order to find the disease as early as possible and thus improve the cure rate, the Graf method is often used in the clinical diagnose of DDH by early ultrasound screening of hip joints of infants. The method highly depends on the selection of standard planes and identification of key anatomical structures, which requires the high level knowledge and experience of physicians. This study proposes an intelligent infant DDH auxiliary screening system. It is designed to realize the automatic identification of standard planes and measure two indicators, i.e., α angle and β angle. A few-shot one-class classifier(FOC)is used as the automatic recognition standard plane module which can recognize the standard planes from hip joint ultrasound videos, learn the features of standard planes with self-supervised training, and predict the image standardized score. A fast instance network(FIN)is served as the automatic fast measurement module which measures two angles on the standard plane in real-time and visualizes the results through the one-stage architecture and multi-task learning mode. The performance of our system is verified with two kinds of experiments: automatic identification of the standard plane and automatic measurement of development indicators. Compared with other one-class classifiers, such as one-class support vector machine, deep support vector data description, and Ganomaly, the proposed method obtains better prediction performance with the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve 76.43%. Compared with other common neural networks, such as full convolutional network, Unet and deeplab V3, the FOC method obtains better prediction performance with lower computation complexity, i.e., the average errors in α and β angles are 2.48° and 4.38° and the inference speed is 33.88 frames/s. The experimental results show that the system can reduce the dependence on amount of training data, improve the homogeneity level of clinical screening for DDH, control the quality of measurement, and improve the efficiency of clinical screening.
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