Assessment of automatic rib fracture detection on chest CT using a deep learning algorithm.

Journal: European radiology
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Abstract

OBJECTIVES: To evaluate deep neural networks for automatic rib fracture detection on thoracic CT scans and to compare its performance with that of attending-level radiologists using a large amount of datasets from multiple medical institutions.

Authors

  • Shuhao Wang
    Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, P. R. China.
  • Dijia Wu
  • Lifang Ye
    Department of Radiology, Shanghai Sixth People's Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, No. 600, Yi Shan Road, Shanghai, 200233, China.
  • Zirong Chen
    From the Departments of Radiology (M.L., LY., J.Z.) and Cardiology (W.Y.), Shanghai General Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, 85 Wujin Rd, Shanghai 200080, China; Institute of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Affiliated Sixth People's Hospital, Shanghai, China (R.L.); and Shanghai United Imaging Intelligence, Shanghai, China (Z.C., D.W.).
  • Yiqiang Zhan
  • Yuehua Li
    From the Institute of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology (Y.L., M.Y., X.D., J.Z.) and Department of Cardiology (Z.L., C.S.), Shanghai Jiao Tong University Affiliated Sixth People's Hospital, #600, Yishan Rd, Shanghai, China 200233; Department of Radiology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Science and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China (Y.W.); and Department of Radiology, Fuwai Hospital, State Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Disease, National Centre for Cardiovascular Diseases, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China (B.L.).