Expert-Agnostic Ultrasound Image Quality Assessment using Deep Variational Clustering

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2307.02462v2
• Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2023 22:34:05 GMT
• Title: Expert-Agnostic Ultrasound Image Quality Assessment using Deep Variational Clustering
• Authors: Deepak Raina, Dimitrios Ntentia, SH Chandrashekhara, Richard Voyles, Subir Kumar Saha
• Abstract summary: Ultrasound images are low in quality and suffer from noisy annotations caused by inter-observer variations. We propose an UnSupervised UltraSound image Quality assessment Network, US2QNet, that eliminates the burden and uncertainty of manual annotations. The proposed framework achieved 78% accuracy and superior performance to state-of-the-art clustering methods.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Ultrasound imaging is a commonly used modality for several diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. However, the diagnosis by ultrasound relies heavily on the quality of images assessed manually by sonographers, which diminishes the objectivity of the diagnosis and makes it operator-dependent. The supervised learning-based methods for automated quality assessment require manually annotated datasets, which are highly labour-intensive to acquire. These ultrasound images are low in quality and suffer from noisy annotations caused by inter-observer perceptual variations, which hampers learning efficiency. We propose an UnSupervised UltraSound image Quality assessment Network, US2QNet, that eliminates the burden and uncertainty of manual annotations. US2QNet uses the variational autoencoder embedded with the three modules, pre-processing, clustering and post-processing, to jointly enhance, extract, cluster and visualize the quality feature representation of ultrasound images. The pre-processing module uses filtering of images to point the network's attention towards salient quality features, rather than getting distracted by noise. Post-processing is proposed for visualizing the clusters of feature representations in 2D space. We validated the proposed framework for quality assessment of the urinary bladder ultrasound images. The proposed framework achieved 78% accuracy and superior performance to state-of-the-art clustering methods.

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