Automatic Kellgren-Lawrence grade estimation driven deep learning algorithms

Nianyi Li; Albert Swiecicki; Nicholas Said; Jonathan O'Donnell; William A. Jiranek; Maciej A. Mazurowski

doi:10.1117/12.2551392

16 March 2020 Automatic Kellgren-Lawrence grade estimation driven deep learning algorithms

Nianyi Li, Albert Swiecicki, Nicholas Said, Jonathan O'Donnell, William A. Jiranek, Maciej A. Mazurowski

Proceedings Volume 11314, Medical Imaging 2020: Computer-Aided Diagnosis; 113140R (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2551392
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2020, Houston, Texas, United States

Abstract

Knee osteoarthritis (OA) is a prevalent and disabling degenerative joint disease. Objectively identifying knee OA severity is challenging given significant inter-reader variability due to human interpretation factors. The Kellgren-Lawrence (KL) grading system is a commonly used scale to quantitatively characterize the severity of knee OA in knee radiographs. It is important to reliably identify severe knee OA since total knee arthroplasty (TKA) can provide significant improvement in patient quality of life for patients with severe knee OA. In this study, we demonstrate a deep learning approach to automatically assessing KL grades. Our approach uses faster R-CNN object detection network to identify the knee region and deep convolutional neural network for classification. We used a dataset of 7962 knee radiographs for each posteroanterior (PA) and lateral (LAT) views, to develop and evaluate our approach. Images with their corresponding KL grades were obtained from the Multicenter Osteoarthritis Study (MOST) dataset. Our network showed multi-class classification accuracy of 69.15 % when the assessment was made based on PA views and accuracy of 56.68 % when LAT views were used. The developed network may play a significant role in surgical decision-making regarding knee replacement surgery.

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Nianyi Li, Albert Swiecicki, Nicholas Said, Jonathan O'Donnell, William A. Jiranek, and Maciej A. Mazurowski "Automatic Kellgren-Lawrence grade estimation driven deep learning algorithms", Proc. SPIE 11314, Medical Imaging 2020: Computer-Aided Diagnosis, 113140R (16 March 2020); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2551392

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