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ArticleBMC medical imaging2022

Development and validation of an ensemble artificial intelligence model for comprehensive imaging quality check to classify body parts and contrast enhancement.

Seongwon Na, Yu Sub Sung, Yousun Ko, Youngbin Shin, Junghyun Lee, Jiyeon Ha, Su Jung Ham, Kyoungro Yoon, Kyung Won Kim

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Seongwon Na *Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Konkuk University, Seoul, Korea.
Yu Sub Sung *Clinical Research Center, Asan Medical Center, Seoul, Korea.
Yousun KoBiomedical Research Center, Asan Institute for Life Sciences, Asan Medical Center, Seoul, Korea.
Youngbin ShinBiomedical Research Center, Asan Institute for Life Sciences, Asan Medical Center, Seoul, Korea.
Junghyun LeeDepartment of Medical Science, Asan Medical Institute of Convergence Science and Technology, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
Jiyeon HaDepartment of Radiology, Hallym University College of Medicine, Kangdong Seong-Sim Hospital, Seoul, Korea.
Su Jung HamDepartment of Radiology and Research Institute of Radiology, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Asan Medical Center, 88 Olympic-ro 43-gil, Songpa-gu, Seoul, 05505, Republic of Korea.
Kyoungro YoonDepartment of Smart ICT Convergence Engineering, Konkuk University, 120 Neungdong-ro, Gwangjin-Gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea. yoonk@konkuk.ac.kr.
Kyung Won KimDepartment of Radiology and Research Institute of Radiology, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Asan Medical Center, 88 Olympic-ro 43-gil, Songpa-gu, Seoul, 05505, Republic of Korea. medimash@gmail.com.

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Abstract

backgroundDespite the dramatic increase in the use of medical imaging in various therapeutic fields of clinical trials, the first step of image quality check (image QC), which aims to check whether images are uploaded appropriately according to the predefined rules, is still performed manually by image analysts, which requires a lot of manpower and time.

methodsIn this retrospective study, 1669 computed tomography (CT) images with five specific anatomical locations were collected from Asan Medical Center and Kangdong Sacred Heart Hospital. To generate the ground truth, two radiologists reviewed the anatomical locations and presence of contrast enhancement using the collected data. The individual deep learning model is developed through InceptionResNetv2 and transfer learning, and we propose Image Quality Check-Net (Image QC-Net), an ensemble AI model that utilizes it. To evaluate their clinical effectiveness, the overall accuracy and time spent on image quality check of a conventional model and ImageQC-net were compared.

resultsImageQC-net body part classification showed excellent performance in both internal (precision, 100%; recall, 100% accuracy, 100%) and external verification sets (precision, 99.8%; recovery rate, 99.8%, accuracy, 99.8%). In addition, contrast enhancement classification performance achieved 100% precision, recall, and accuracy in the internal verification set and achieved (precision, 100%; recall, 100%; accuracy 100%) in the external dataset. In the case of clinical effects, the reduction of time by checking the quality of artificial intelligence (AI) support by analysts 1 and 2 (49.7% and 48.3%, respectively) was statistically significant (p < 0.001).

conclusionsComprehensive AI techniques to identify body parts and contrast enhancement on CT images are highly accurate and can significantly reduce the time spent on image quality checks.

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Artificial IntelligenceDeep LearningHuman BodyHumansRetrospective StudiesTomography, X-Ray ComputedArtificial intelligenceComputed tomography seriesDeep learningImage quality checkTransfer learningTwo-dimensional convert method

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PMID35562705
PMCPMC9107169

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