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- Title
Artificial Intelligence of Object Detection in Skeletal Scintigraphy for Automatic Detection and Annotation of Bone Metastases.
- Authors
Liao, Chiung-Wei; Hsieh, Te-Chun; Lai, Yung-Chi; Hsu, Yu-Ju; Hsu, Zong-Kai; Chan, Pak-Ki; Kao, Chia-Hung
- Abstract
Background: When cancer has metastasized to bone, doctors must identify the site of the metastases for treatment. In radiation therapy, damage to healthy areas or missing areas requiring treatment should be avoided. Therefore, it is necessary to locate the precise bone metastasis area. The bone scan is a commonly applied diagnostic tool for this purpose. However, its accuracy is limited by the nonspecific character of radiopharmaceutical accumulation. The study evaluated object detection techniques to improve the efficacy of bone metastases detection on bone scans. Methods: We retrospectively examined the data of 920 patients, aged 23 to 95 years, who underwent bone scans between May 2009 and December 2019. The bone scan images were examined using an object detection algorithm. Results: After reviewing the image reports written by physicians, nursing staff members annotated the bone metastasis sites as ground truths for training. Each set of bone scans contained anterior and posterior images with resolutions of 1024 × 256 pixels. The optimal dice similarity coefficient (DSC) in our study was 0.6640, which differs by 0.04 relative to the optimal DSC of different physicians (0.7040). Conclusions: Object detection can help physicians to efficiently notice bone metastases, decrease physician workload, and improve patient care.
- Subjects
OBJECT recognition (Computer vision); ARTIFICIAL intelligence; BONE metastasis; RADIONUCLIDE imaging; PHYSICIANS
- Publication
Diagnostics (2075-4418), 2023, Vol 13, Issue 4, p685
- ISSN
2075-4418
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/diagnostics13040685