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ArticleScientific reports2024

Automated diagnosis of adenoid hypertrophy with lateral cephalogram in children based on multi-scale local attention.

Yanying Rao, Qiuyun Zhang, Xiaowei Wang, Xiaoling Xue, Wenjing Ma, Lin Xu, Shuli Xing

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  1. Multidimensional analysis of the impact of adenoid hypertrophy on pediatric dentofacial and airway structures and construction of a diagnostic model.European archives of oto-rhino-laryngology : official journal of the European Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies (EUFOS) : affiliated with the German Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology - Head and Neck Surgery · 2026
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Yanying Rao *Department of Radiology, Fujian Children's Hospital (Fujian Branch of Shanghai Children's Medical Center), College of Clinical Medicine for Obstetrics & Gynecology and Pediatrics, Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou, 350014, Fujian, China.
Qiuyun Zhang *Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Fujian Maternity and Child Health Hospital, College of Clinical Medicine for Obstetrics & Gynecology and Pediatrics, Fujian Medical University, Fujian, 350005, China.
Xiaowei WangDepartment of Computer Science and Mathematics, Fujian University of Technology, Fujian, 350116, China.
Xiaoling XueDepartment of Radiology, Fujian Maternity and Child Health Hospital, College of Clinical Medicine for Obstetrics & Gynecology and Pediatrics, Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou, 350005, Fujian, China.
Wenjing MaDepartment of Computer Science and Mathematics, Fujian University of Technology, Fujian, 350116, China.
Lin XuDepartment of Radiology, Shanghai Children's Medical Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, 200127, China.
Shuli XingDepartment of Computer Science and Mathematics, Fujian University of Technology, Fujian, 350116, China. 19892311@fjut.edu.cn.

Funding

This work was supported by the Fujian Children's Hospital Development Project YP202410This work was supported by the Joint Funds for the innovation of science and Technology, Fujian province 2023Y9387This work was supported by the Startup Fund for scientific research, Fujian Medical University 2020QH1214
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Abstract

Adenoid hypertrophy can lead to adenoidal mouth breathing, which can result in "adenoid face" and, in severe cases, can even lead to respiratory tract obstruction. The Fujioka ratio method, which calculates the ratio of adenoid (A) to nasopharyngeal (N) space in an adenoidal-cephalogram (A/N), is a well-recognized and effective technique for detecting adenoid hypertrophy. However, this process is time-consuming and relies on personal experience, so a fully automated and standardized method needs to be designed. Most of the current deep learning-based methods for automatic diagnosis of adenoids are CNN-based methods, which are more sensitive to features similar to adenoids in lateral views and can affect the final localization results. In this study, we designed a local attention-based method for automatic diagnosis of adenoids, which takes AdeBlock as the basic module, fuses the spatial and channel information of adenoids through two-branch local attention computation, and combines the downsampling method without losing spatial information. Our method achieved mean squared error (MSE) 0.0023, mean radial error (MRE) 1.91, and SD (standard deviation) 7.64 on the three hospital datasets, outperforming other comparative methods.

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