Detection of Line Artefacts in Lung Ultrasound Images of COVID-19 Patients via Non-Convex Regularization

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2005.03080v3
• Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2020 15:18:00 GMT
• Title: Detection of Line Artefacts in Lung Ultrasound Images of COVID-19 Patients via Non-Convex Regularization
• Authors: Oktay Karaku\c{s}, Nantheera Anantrasirichai, Amazigh Aguersif, Stein Silva, Adrian Basarab, Alin Achim
• Abstract summary: We present a novel method for line artefacts in lung (LUS) images of COVID-19 patients. We employ a simple local maxima detection technique in the Radon domain with known definitions of artefacts being non- convergence. Our method accurately identifies both horizontal vertical line artefacts in LUS images.
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• Abstract: In this paper, we present a novel method for line artefacts quantification in lung ultrasound (LUS) images of COVID-19 patients. We formulate this as a non-convex regularisation problem involving a sparsity-enforcing, Cauchy-based penalty function, and the inverse Radon transform. We employ a simple local maxima detection technique in the Radon transform domain, associated with known clinical definitions of line artefacts. Despite being non-convex, the proposed technique is guaranteed to convergence through our proposed Cauchy proximal splitting (CPS) method and accurately identifies both horizontal and vertical line artefacts in LUS images. In order to reduce the number of false and missed detection, our method includes a two-stage validation mechanism, which is performed in both Radon and image domains. We evaluate the performance of the proposed method in comparison to the current state-of-the-art B-line identification method and show a considerable performance gain with 87% correctly detected B-lines in LUS images of nine COVID-19 patients. In addition, owing to its fast convergence, our proposed method is readily applicable for processing LUS image sequences.

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