An MTANN CAD for detection of polyps in false-negative CT colonography cases in a large multicenter clinical trial: preliminary results

Kenji Suzuki; Ivan Sheu; Mark Epstein; Ryan Kohlbrenner; Antonella Lostumbo; Don C. Rockey; Abraham H. Dachman M.D.

doi:10.1117/12.769824

27 March 2008 An MTANN CAD for detection of polyps in false-negative CT colonography cases in a large multicenter clinical trial: preliminary results

Kenji Suzuki, Ivan Sheu, Mark Epstein, Ryan Kohlbrenner, Antonella Lostumbo, Don C. Rockey, Abraham H. Dachman M.D.

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Proceedings Volume 6915, Medical Imaging 2008: Computer-Aided Diagnosis; 69150F (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.769824
Event: Medical Imaging, 2008, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

A major challenge in computer-aided detection (CAD) of polyps in CT colonography (CTC) is the detection of "difficult" polyps which radiologists are likely to miss. Our purpose was to develop a CAD scheme incorporating massive-training artificial neural networks (MTANNs) and to evaluate its performance on false-negative (FN) cases in a large multicenter clinical trial. We developed an initial polyp-detection scheme consisting of colon segmentation based on CT value-based analysis, detection of polyp candidates based on morphologic analysis, and quadratic discriminant analysis based on 3D pattern features for classification. For reduction of false-positive (FP) detections, we developed multiple expert 3D MTANNs designed to differentiate between polyps and seven types of non-polyps. Our independent database was obtained from CTC scans of 155 patients with polyps from a multicenter trial in which 15 medical institutions participated nationwide. Among them, about 45% patients received FN interpretations in CTC. For testing our CAD, 14 cases with 14 polyps/masses were randomly selected from the FN cases. Lesion sizes ranged from 6-35 mm, with an average of 10 mm. The initial CAD scheme detected 71.4% (10/14) of "missed" polyps, including sessile polyps and polyps on folds, with 18.9 (264/14) FPs per case. The MTANNs removed 75% (197/264) of the FPs without loss of any true positives; thus, the performance of our CAD scheme was improved to 4.8 (67/14) FPs per case. With our CAD scheme incorporating MTANNs, 71.4% of polyps "missed" by radiologists in the trial were detected correctly, with a reasonable number of FPs.

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Kenji Suzuki, Ivan Sheu, Mark Epstein, Ryan Kohlbrenner, Antonella Lostumbo, Don C. Rockey, and Abraham H. Dachman M.D. "An MTANN CAD for detection of polyps in false-negative CT colonography cases in a large multicenter clinical trial: preliminary results", Proc. SPIE 6915, Medical Imaging 2008: Computer-Aided Diagnosis, 69150F (27 March 2008); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.769824

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