Title
An explorative childhood pneumonia analysis based on ultrasonic imaging texture features
Date Issued
01 January 2015
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
Oberhelman R.
Checkley W.
Tulane University
Johns Hopkins University
Publisher(s)
SPIE
Abstract
According to World Health Organization, pneumonia is the respiratory disease with the highest pediatric mortality rate accounting for 15% of all deaths of children under 5 years old worldwide. The diagnosis of pneumonia is commonly made by clinical criteria with support from ancillary studies and also laboratory findings. Chest imaging is commonly done with chest X-rays and occasionally with a chest CT scan. Lung ultrasound is a promising alternative for chest imaging; however, interpretation is subjective and requires adequate training. In the present work, a two-class classification algorithm based on four Gray-level co-occurrence matrix texture features (i.e., Contrast, Correlation, Energy and Homogeneity) extracted from lung ultrasound images from children aged between six months and five years is presented. Ultrasound data was collected using a L14-5/38 linear transducer. The data consisted of 22 positive-and 68 negative-diagnosed B-mode cine-loops selected by a medical expert and captured in the facilities of the Instituto Nacional de Salud del Ninõ (Lima, Peru), for a total number of 90 videos obtained from twelve children diagnosed with pneumonia. The classification capacity of each feature was explored independently and the optimal threshold was selected by a receiver operator characteristic (ROC) curve analysis. In addition, a principal component analysis was performed to evaluate the combined performance of all the features. Contrast and correlation resulted the two more significant features. The classification performance of these two features by principal components was evaluated. The results revealed 82% sensitivity, 76% specificity, 78% accuracy and 0.85 area under the ROC.
Volume
9681
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Sistema respiratorio
Enfermedades infecciosas
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84958225248
Source
Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
ISSN of the container
0277786X
ISBN of the container
978-162841916-0
Conference
11th International Symposium on Medical Information Processing and Analysis, SIPAIM 2015
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