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Paper Abstract
Tubes like Endotracheal (ET) tube used to maintain patient's airway and the Nasogastric (NG) tube used to feed the
patient and drain contents of the stomach are very commonly used in Intensive Care Units (ICU). The placement of these
tubes is critical for their proper functioning and improper tube placement can even be fatal. Bedside chest radiographs
are considered the quickest and safest method to check the placement of these tubes. Tertiary ICU's typically generate
over 250 chest radiographs per day to confirm tube placement. This paper develops a new fully automatic prototype
computer-aided detection (CAD) system for tube detection on bedside chest radiographs. The core of the CAD system is
the randomized algorithm which selects tubes based on their average repeatability from seed points. The CAD algorithm
is designed as a 5 stage process: Preprocessing (removing borders, histogram equalization, anisotropic filtering),
Anatomy Segmentation (to identify neck, esophagus, abdomen ROI's), Seed Generation, Region Growing and Tube
Selection. The preliminary evaluation was carried out on 64 cases. The prototype CAD system was able to detect ET
tubes with a True Positive Rate of 0.93 and False Positive Rate of 0.02/image and NG tubes with a True Positive Rate of
0.84 and False Positive Rate of 0.02/image respectively. The results from the prototype system show that it is feasible to
automatically detect both tubes on chest radiographs, with the potential to significantly speed the delivery of imaging
services while maintaining high accuracy.
Paper Details
Date Published: 23 February 2012
PDF: 7 pages
Proc. SPIE 8315, Medical Imaging 2012: Computer-Aided Diagnosis, 83150R (23 February 2012); doi: 10.1117/12.911839
Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 8315:
Medical Imaging 2012: Computer-Aided Diagnosis
Bram van Ginneken; Carol L. Novak, Editor(s)
PDF: 7 pages
Proc. SPIE 8315, Medical Imaging 2012: Computer-Aided Diagnosis, 83150R (23 February 2012); doi: 10.1117/12.911839
Show Author Affiliations
Bharath Ramakrishna, David Geffen School of Medicine, Univ. of California, Los Angeles (United States)
Matthew Brown, David Geffen School of Medicine, Univ. of California, Los Angeles (United States)
Jonathan Goldin, David Geffen School of Medicine, Univ. of California, Los Angeles (United States)
Matthew Brown, David Geffen School of Medicine, Univ. of California, Los Angeles (United States)
Jonathan Goldin, David Geffen School of Medicine, Univ. of California, Los Angeles (United States)
Christopher Cagnon, David Geffen School of Medicine, Univ. of California, Los Angeles (United States)
Dieter Enzmann M.D., David Geffen School of Medicine, Univ. of California, Los Angeles (United States)
Dieter Enzmann M.D., David Geffen School of Medicine, Univ. of California, Los Angeles (United States)
Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 8315:
Medical Imaging 2012: Computer-Aided Diagnosis
Bram van Ginneken; Carol L. Novak, Editor(s)
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