A Thoracic Spine Segmentation Technique for Automatic Extraction of VHS and Cobb Angle from X-ray Images


KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering, Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 51-58, Jan. 2023
https://doi.org/10.3745/KTSDE.2023.12.1.51,   PDF Download:
Keywords: Medical Image Processing, Cobb Angle, Image Segmentation, Thoracic Spine Segmentation
Abstract

In this paper, we propose an organ segmentation technique for the automatic extraction of medical diagnostic indicators from X-ray images. In order to calculate diagnostic indicators of heart disease and spinal disease such as VHS(vertebral heart scale) and Cobb angle, it is necessary to accurately segment the thoracic spine, carina, and heart in a chest X-ray image. A deep neural network model in which the high-resolution representation of the image for each layer and the structure converted into a low-resolution feature map are connected in parallel was adopted. This structure enables the relative position information in the image to be effectively reflected in the segmentation process. It is shown that learning performance can be improved by combining the OCR module, in which pixel information and object information are mutually interacted in a multi-step process, and the channel attention module, which allows each channel of the network to be reflected as different weight values. In addition, a method of augmenting learning data is presented in order to provide robust performance against changes in the position, shape, and size of the subject in the X-ray image. The effectiveness of the proposed theory was evaluated through an experiment using 145 human chest X-ray images and 118 animal X-ray images.


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[IEEE Style]
Y. Lee, S. Han, D. Lee, H. Kim, "A Thoracic Spine Segmentation Technique for Automatic Extraction of VHS and Cobb Angle from X-ray Images," KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 51-58, 2023. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3745/KTSDE.2023.12.1.51.

[ACM Style]
Ye-Eun Lee, Seung-Hwa Han, Dong-Gyu Lee, and Ho-Joon Kim. 2023. A Thoracic Spine Segmentation Technique for Automatic Extraction of VHS and Cobb Angle from X-ray Images. KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering, 12, 1, (2023), 51-58. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3745/KTSDE.2023.12.1.51.