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OtoPair: Combining Right and Left Eardrum Otoscopy Images to Improve the Accuracy of Automated Image Analysis

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: OtoPair: Combining Right and Left Eardrum Otoscopy Images to Improve the Accuracy of Automated Image Analysis
المؤلفون: Seda Camalan, Aaron C. Moberly, Theodoros Teknos, Garth Essig, Charles Elmaraghy, Nazhat Taj-Schaal, Metin N. Gurcan
المصدر: Applied Sciences, Vol 11, Iss 4, p 1831 (2021)
بيانات النشر: MDPI AG, 2021.
سنة النشر: 2021
المجموعة: LCC:Technology
LCC:Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
LCC:Biology (General)
LCC:Physics
LCC:Chemistry
مصطلحات موضوعية: acute otitis media, eardrum classification, otoscopy, transfer learning, Technology, Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General), TA1-2040, Biology (General), QH301-705.5, Physics, QC1-999, Chemistry, QD1-999
الوصف: The accurate diagnosis of otitis media (OM) and other middle ear and eardrum abnormalities is difficult, even for experienced otologists. In our earlier studies, we developed computer-aided diagnosis systems to improve the diagnostic accuracy. In this study, we investigate a novel approach, called OtoPair, which uses paired eardrum images together rather than using a single eardrum image to classify them as ‘normal’ or ‘abnormal’. This also mimics the way that otologists evaluate ears, because they diagnose eardrum abnormalities by examining both ears. Our approach creates a new feature vector, which is formed with extracted features from a pair of high-resolution otoscope images or images that are captured by digital video-otoscopes. The feature vector has two parts. The first part consists of lookup table-based values created by using deep learning techniques reported in our previous OtoMatch content-based image retrieval system. The second part consists of handcrafted features that are created by recording registration errors between paired eardrums, color-based features, such as histogram of a* and b* component of the L*a*b* color space, and statistical measurements of these color channels. The extracted features are concatenated to form a single feature vector, which is then classified by a tree bagger classifier. A total of 150-pair (300-single) of eardrum images, which are either the same category (normal-normal and abnormal-abnormal) or different category (normal-abnormal and abnormal-normal) pairs, are used to perform several experiments. The proposed approach increases the accuracy from 78.7% (±0.1%) to 85.8% (±0.2%) on a three-fold cross-validation method. These are promising results with a limited number of eardrum pairs to demonstrate the feasibility of using a pair of eardrum images instead of single eardrum images to improve the diagnostic accuracy.
نوع الوثيقة: article
وصف الملف: electronic resource
اللغة: English
تدمد: 2076-3417
Relation: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/11/4/1831; https://doaj.org/toc/2076-3417
DOI: 10.3390/app11041831
URL الوصول: https://doaj.org/article/efe7ce2ed0ca464ab8ba082b80a7a966
رقم الأكسشن: edsdoj.fe7ce2ed0ca464ab8ba082b80a7a966
قاعدة البيانات: Directory of Open Access Journals
الوصف
تدمد:20763417
DOI:10.3390/app11041831