An AI-based Framework for Diagnostic Quality Assessment of Ankle Radiographs

Dominik Mairhöfer; Manuel Laufer; Paul Martin Simon; Malte Sieren; Arpad Bischof; Thomas Käster; Erhardt Barth; Jörg Barkhausen; Thomas Martinetz

An AI-based Framework for Diagnostic Quality Assessment of Ankle Radiographs

Dominik Mairhöfer, Manuel Laufer, Paul Martin Simon, Malte Sieren, Arpad Bischof, Thomas Käster, Erhardt Barth, Jörg Barkhausen, Thomas Martinetz

Abstract

The quality of radiographs is of major importance for diagnosis and treatment planning. While most research regarding automated radiograph quality assessment uses technical features such as noise or contrast, we propose to use anatomical structures as more appropriate features. We show that based on such anatomical features, a modular deep-learning framework can serve as a quality control mechanism for the diagnostic quality of ankle radiographs. For evaluation, a dataset consisting of 950 ankle radiographs was collected and their quality was labeled by radiologists. We obtain an average accuracy of 94.1%, which is better than the expert radiologists are on average.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the Fourth Conference on Medical Imaging with Deep Learning
Editors	Mattias Heinrich, Qi Dou, Marleen de Bruijne, Jan Lellmann, Alexander Schläfer, Floris Ernst
Number of pages	13
Volume	143
Publisher	PMLR
Publication date	01.07.2021
Pages	484-496
Publication status	Published - 01.07.2021

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Centers: Center for Artificial Intelligence Luebeck (ZKIL)
Research Area: Intelligent Systems

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409-05 Interactive and Intelligent Systems, Image and Language Processing, Computer Graphics and Visualisation

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Mairhöfer, D., Laufer, M., Simon, P. M., Sieren, M., Bischof, A., Käster, T., Barth, E., Barkhausen, J., & Martinetz, T. (2021). An AI-based Framework for Diagnostic Quality Assessment of Ankle Radiographs. In M. Heinrich, Q. Dou, M. de Bruijne, J. Lellmann, A. Schläfer, & F. Ernst (Eds.), Proceedings of the Fourth Conference on Medical Imaging with Deep Learning (Vol. 143, pp. 484-496). (Proceedings of Machine Learning Research). PMLR. https://webmail.inb.uni-luebeck.de/inb-publications/pdfs/MaLaSiSiBiKaBaBaMa21.pdf

Mairhöfer, Dominik ; Laufer, Manuel ; Simon, Paul Martin et al. / An AI-based Framework for Diagnostic Quality Assessment of Ankle Radiographs. Proceedings of the Fourth Conference on Medical Imaging with Deep Learning. editor / Mattias Heinrich ; Qi Dou ; Marleen de Bruijne ; Jan Lellmann ; Alexander Schläfer ; Floris Ernst. Vol. 143 PMLR, 2021. pp. 484-496 (Proceedings of Machine Learning Research).

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An AI-based Framework for Diagnostic Quality Assessment of Ankle Radiographs. / Mairhöfer, Dominik ; Laufer, Manuel; Simon, Paul Martin et al.
Proceedings of the Fourth Conference on Medical Imaging with Deep Learning. ed. / Mattias Heinrich; Qi Dou; Marleen de Bruijne; Jan Lellmann; Alexander Schläfer; Floris Ernst. Vol. 143 PMLR, 2021. p. 484-496 (Proceedings of Machine Learning Research).

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Mairhöfer D , Laufer M, Simon PM, Sieren M , Bischof A , Käster T et al. An AI-based Framework for Diagnostic Quality Assessment of Ankle Radiographs. In Heinrich M, Dou Q, de Bruijne M, Lellmann J, Schläfer A, Ernst F, editors, Proceedings of the Fourth Conference on Medical Imaging with Deep Learning. Vol. 143. PMLR. 2021. p. 484-496. (Proceedings of Machine Learning Research).

An AI-based Framework for Diagnostic Quality Assessment of Ankle Radiographs

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