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ArticleJAMIA open2025

An open-source, automated machine learning approach for large-scale image retrieval for thoracic aorta analysis studies.

Brian C Ayers, Aaron D Aguirre, Thoralf M Sundt, Michael T Lu, Arminder Jassar

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Brian C AyersDivision of Cardiac Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3667-6873
Aaron D AguirreCardiology Division, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, United States.
Thoralf M SundtDivision of Cardiac Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, United States.
Michael T LuDepartment of Radiology, Cardiovascular Imaging Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, United States.
Arminder JassarDivision of Cardiac Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5412-3506

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Abstract

Objective: To develop an image retrieval pipeline capable of identifying specific series of thoracic aortic computed tomography (CT) scans from a diverse database. Materials and Methods: An automated image analysis pipeline was developed to select series that show the entire thoracic aorta with arterial phase contrast from within a heterogeneous institutional cohort of 4184 CT scans of the chest. Results: The automated pipeline identified 3435 (82%) studies from within the database that met criteria. Manual review confirmed 99.1% of the selected scans were accurately selected, and 93.6% of excluded scans were appropriately excluded. Discussion and Conclusion: We present an open-source, image-retrieval pipeline that, with a high degree of accuracy, can identify aortic imaging studies that meet specific criteria from within a heterogeneous collection of images. This pipeline serves as a framework that can be easily modified for other clinical use cases and can be deployed across multiple centers to promote multi-institutional research.

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content-based image retrievalconvolutional neural network (CNN)machine learningopen-source

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