VertXNet: An Ensemble Method for Vertebrae Segmentation and Identification of Spinal X-Ray

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2302.03476v1
• Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2023 14:01:32 GMT
• Title: VertXNet: An Ensemble Method for Vertebrae Segmentation and Identification of Spinal X-Ray
• Authors: Yao Chen, Yuanhan Mo, Aimee Readie, Gregory Ligozio, Indrajeet Mandal, Faiz Jabbar, Thibaud Coroller, Bartlomiej W. Papiez
• Abstract summary: VertXNet is an ensemble pipeline for automatically segmenting and labeling vertebrae in spinal X-ray images. It combines two state-of-the-art (SOTA) segmentation models (respectively U-Net and Mask R-CNN) to automatically segment and label vertebrae in X-ray spinal images. We evaluated the proposed pipeline on three spinal X-ray datasets (two internal and one publicly available), and compared against vertebrae annotated by radiologists.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: Reliable vertebrae annotations are key to perform analysis of spinal X-ray images. However, obtaining annotation of vertebrae from those images is usually carried out manually due to its complexity (i.e. small structures with varying shape), making it a costly and tedious process. To accelerate this process, we proposed an ensemble pipeline, VertXNet, that combines two state-of-the-art (SOTA) segmentation models (respectively U-Net and Mask R-CNN) to automatically segment and label vertebrae in X-ray spinal images. Moreover, VertXNet introduces a rule-based approach that allows to robustly infer vertebrae labels (by locating the 'reference' vertebrae which are easier to segment than others) for a given spinal X-ray image. We evaluated the proposed pipeline on three spinal X-ray datasets (two internal and one publicly available), and compared against vertebrae annotated by radiologists. Our experimental results have shown that the proposed pipeline outperformed two SOTA segmentation models on our test dataset (MEASURE 1) with a mean Dice of 0.90, vs. a mean Dice of 0.73 for Mask R-CNN and 0.72 for U-Net. To further evaluate the generalization ability of VertXNet, the pre-trained pipeline was directly tested on two additional datasets (PREVENT and NHANES II) and consistent performance was observed with a mean Dice of 0.89 and 0.88, respectively. Overall, VertXNet demonstrated significantly improved performance for vertebra segmentation and labeling for spinal X-ray imaging, and evaluation on both in-house clinical trial data and publicly available data further proved its generalization.

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