单位:[1]School of Software Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, No. 1037 Luoyu Road, Wuhan, 430074, Hubei, China [2]Department of Pediatrics, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, No. 1277 Jie Fang Avenue, Wuhan, 430022, Hubei, China [3]Department of Orthopedics,Tongji Hospital,Tongji Medical College,Huazhong University of Science and Technology,No. 1095 Jie Fang Avenue,Wuhan,430030,Hubei,China华中科技大学同济医学院附属同济医院外科学系骨科
Pediatric skeletal bone age assessment (BAA) is a common clinical practice to diagnose endocrine and metabolic disorders in child development. Recently, several automated methods have been developed to assist the diagnosis. For most children, the chronological age will be close to the bone age. Besides, features of the left hand between males and females are different by using either Greulich and Pyle (G&P) method or Tanner Whitehouse (TW) method. However, it is truly challenging to learn a unified representation based on the male and female image samples that have completely different characteristics. We argue that chronological age and gender are necessary pieces of information for automated BAA, and delve into the auxiliary of chronological age and gender for BAA. In this paper, a new multi-domain neural network (MD-BAA) is proposed to assess bone age of males and females in a separative and end-to-end manner. Furthermore, we introduce two regularization approaches to improve the network training: 1) an explicit dropout approach to select either the male domain or the female domain; 2) a chronological age preserving loss function to prevent the predicted bone age discrepant too much from the chronological age. Experimental results show the proposed method outperforms the state-of-the-art models on two datasets.
基金:
National Natural Science Foundation of China [61902139, 81070691]
第一作者单位:[1]School of Software Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, No. 1037 Luoyu Road, Wuhan, 430074, Hubei, China
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推荐引用方式(GB/T 7714):
Tang He,Pei Xiaobing,Li Xinzhe,et al.End-to-end multi-domain neural networks with explicit dropout for automated bone age assessment[J].APPLIED INTELLIGENCE.2023,53(4):3736-3749.doi:10.1007/s10489-022-03725-8.
APA:
Tang, He,Pei, Xiaobing,Li, Xinzhe,Tong, Haihui,Li, Xin&Huang,Shilong.(2023).End-to-end multi-domain neural networks with explicit dropout for automated bone age assessment.APPLIED INTELLIGENCE,53,(4)
MLA:
Tang, He,et al."End-to-end multi-domain neural networks with explicit dropout for automated bone age assessment".APPLIED INTELLIGENCE 53..4(2023):3736-3749