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Aim To develop an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm that diagnoses cataracts/corneal diseases from multiple conditions using smartphone images. Methods This study included 6442 images that were captured using a slit-lamp microscope (6106 images) and smartphone (336 images). An AI algorithm was developed based on slit-lamp images to differentiate 36 major diseases (cataracts and corneal diseases) into 9 categories. To validate the AI model, smartphone images were used for the testing dataset. We evaluated AI performance that included sensitivity, specificity and receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve for the diagnosis and triage of the diseases. Results The AI algorithm achieved an area under the ROC curve of 0.998 (95% CI, 0.992 to 0.999) for normal eyes, 0.986 (95% CI, 0.978 to 0.997) for infectious keratitis, 0.960 (95% CI, 0.925 to 0.994) for immunological keratitis, 0.987 (95% CI, 0.978 to 0.996) for cornea scars, 0.997 (95% CI, 0.992 to 1.000) for ocular surface tumours, 0.993 (95% CI, 0.984 to 1.000) for corneal deposits, 1.000 (95% CI, 1.000 to 1.000) for acute angle-closure glaucoma, 0.992 (95% CI, 0.985 to 0.999) for cataracts and 0.993 (95% CI, 0.985 to 1.000) for bullous keratopathy. The triage of referral suggestion using the smartphone images exhibited high performance, in which the sensitivity and specificity were 1.00 (95% CI, 0.478 to 1.00) and 1.00 (95% CI, 0.976 to 1.000) for’urgent’, 0.867 (95% CI, 0.683 to 0.962) and 1.00 (95% CI, 0.971 to 1.000) for’semi-urgent’, 0.853 (95% CI, 0.689 to 0.950) and 0.983 (95% CI, 0.942 to 0.998) for’routine’ and 1.00 (95% CI, 0.958 to 1.00) and 0.896 (95% CI, 0.797 to 0.957) for’observation’, respectively. Conclusions The AI system achieved promising performance in the diagnosis of cataracts and corneal diseases.

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In the context of Minimally Invasive Surgery, surgeons mainly rely on visual feedback during medical operations. In common procedures such as tissue resection, the automation of endoscopic control is crucial yet challenging, particularly due to the interactive dynamics of multi-agent operations and the necessity for real-time adaptation. This paper introduces a novel framework that unites a Hierarchical Quadratic Programming controller with an advanced interactive perception module. This integration addresses the need for adaptive visual field control and robust tool tracking in the operating scene, ensuring that surgeons and assistants have optimal viewpoint throughout the surgical task. The proposed framework handles multiple objectives within predefined thresholds, ensuring efficient tracking even amidst changes in operating backgrounds, varying lighting conditions, and partial occlusions. Empirical validations in scenarios involving single, double, and quadruple tool tracking during tissue resection tasks have underscored the system’s robustness and adaptability. The positive feedback from user studies, coupled with the low cognitive and physical strain reported by surgeons and assistants, highlight the system’s potential for real-world application.

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Background and Aims: Gastric cancer (GC) is associated with chronic gastritis. To evaluate the risk, the Operative Link on Gastric Intestinal Metaplasia Assessment (OLGIM) system was constructed and showed a higher GC risk in stage III or IV patients, determined by the degree of intestinal metaplasia (IM). Although the OLGIM system is useful, evaluating the degree of IM requires substantial experience to produce precise scoring. Whole-slide imaging is becoming routine, but most artificial intelligence (AI) systems in pathology are focused on neoplastic lesions. Methods: Hematoxylin and eosin–stained slides were scanned. Images were divided into each gastric biopsy tissue sample and labeled with an IM score. IM was scored as follows: 0 (no IM), 1 (mild IM), 2 (moderate IM), and 3 (severe IM). Overall, 5753 images were prepared. A deep convolutional neural network (DCNN) model, ResNet50, was used for classification. Results: ResNet50 classified images with and without IM with a sensitivity of 97.7% and specificity of 94.6%. IM scores 2 and 3, involved as criteria of stage III or IV in the OLGIM system, were classified by ResNet50 in 18%. The respective sensitivity and specificity values of classifying IM between scores 0 and 1 and 2 and 3 were 98.5% and 94.9%, respectively. The IM scores classified by pathologists and the AI system were different in only 438 images (7.6%), and we found that ResNet50 tended to miss small foci of IM but successfully identified minimal IM areas that pathologists missed during the review. Conclusions: Our findings suggested that this AI system would contribute to evaluating the risk of GC accuracy, reliability, and repeatability with worldwide standardization.

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<p>Social relationships (e.g., couples, opponents) are the foundational part of society. Social relation atmosphere describes the overall interaction environment between social relationships. Discovering social relation atmosphere can help machines better comprehend human behaviors and improve the performance of social intelligent applications. Most existing research mainly focuses on investigating social relationships, while ignoring the social relation atmosphere. Due to the complexity of the expressions in video data and the uncertainty of the social relation atmosphere, it is even difficult to define and evaluate. In this paper, we innovatively analyze the social relation atmosphere in video data. We introduce a Relevant Visual Concept (RVC) from the social relationship recognition task to facilitate social relation atmosphere recognition, because social relationships contain useful information about human interactions and surrounding environments, which are crucial clues for social relation atmosphere recognition. Our approach consists of two main steps: (1) we first generate a group of visual concepts that preserve the inherent social relationship information by utilizing a 3D explanation module; (2) the extracted relevant visual concepts are used to supplement the social relation atmosphere recognition. In addition, we present a new dataset based on the existing Video Social Relation Dataset. Each video is annotated with four kinds of social relation atmosphere attributes and one social relationship. We evaluate the proposed method on our dataset. Experiments with various 3D ConvNets and fusion methods demonstrate that the proposed method can effectively improve recognition accuracy compared to end-to-end ConvNets. The visualization results also indicate that essential information in social relationships can be discovered and used to enhance social relation atmosphere recognition.</p>

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Spinal cord tumors are infrequently identified spinal diseases that are often difficult to diagnose even with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) findings. To minimize the probability of overlooking these tumors and improve diagnostic accuracy, an automatic diagnostic system is needed. We aimed to develop an automated system for detecting and diagnosing spinal schwannomas and meningiomas based on deep learning using You Only Look Once (YOLO) version 4 and MRI. In this retrospective diagnostic accuracy study, the data of 50 patients with spinal schwannomas, 45 patients with meningiomas, and 100 control cases were reviewed, respectively. Sagittal T1-weighted (T1W) and T2-weighted (T2W) images were used for object detection, classification, training, and validation. The object detection and diagnosis system was developed using YOLO version 4. The accuracies of the proposed object detections based on T1W, T2W, and T1W + T2W images were 84.8%, 90.3%, and 93.8%, respectively. The accuracies of the object detection for two spine surgeons were 88.9% and 90.1%, respectively. The accuracies of the proposed diagnoses based on T1W, T2W, and T1W + T2W images were 76.4%, 83.3%, and 84.1%, respectively. The accuracies of the diagnosis for two spine surgeons were 77.4% and 76.1%, respectively. We demonstrated an accurate, automated detection and diagnosis of spinal schwannomas and meningiomas using the developed deep learning-based method based on MRI. This system could be valuable in supporting radiological diagnosis of spinal schwannomas and meningioma, with a potential of reducing the radiologist’s overall workload.

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DOI： 10.1145/3589736

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Objectives: Meticulous inspection of the mucosa during colonoscopy, represents a lengthier withdrawal time, but has been shown to increase adenoma detection rate (ADR). We investigated if artificial intelligence-aided speed monitoring can improve suboptimal withdrawal time. Methods: We evaluated the implementation of a computer-aided speed monitoring device during colonoscopy at a large academic endoscopy center. After informed consent, patients ≥18 years undergoing colonoscopy between 5 March and 29 April 2021 were examined without the use of the speedometer, and with the speedometer between 29 April and 30 June 2021. All colonoscopies were recorded, and withdrawal time was assessed based on the recordings in a blinded fashion. We compared mean withdrawal time, percentage of withdrawal time ≥6 min, and ADR with and without the speedometer. Results: One hundred sixty-six patients in each group were eligible for analyses. Mean withdrawal time was 9 min and 6.6 s (95% CI: 8 min and 34.8 s to 9 min and 39 s) without the use of the speedometer, and 9 min and 9 s (95% CI: 8 min and 45 s to 9 min and 33.6 s) with the speedometer; difference 2.3 s (95% CI: −42.3–37.7, p = 0.91). The ADRs were 45.2% (95% CI: 37.6–52.8) without the speedometer as compared to 45.8% (95% CI: 38.2–53.4) with the speedometer (p = 0.91). The proportion of colonoscopies with withdrawal time ≥6 min without the speedometer was 85.5% (95% CI: 80.2–90.9) versus 86.7% (95% CI: 81.6–91.9) with the speedometer (p = 0.75). Conclusions: Use of speed monitoring during withdrawal did not increase withdrawal time or ADR in colonoscopy. ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT04710251.

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The original version of this article unfortunately contained a mistake. The incorrect notations were given in the author’s affiliations.

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Purpose: Endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) is a minimally invasive treatment for early gastric cancer. However, perforations may happen and cause peritonitis during ESD. Thus, there is a potential demand for a computer-aided diagnosis system to support physicians in ESD. This paper presents a method to detect and localize perforations from colonoscopy videos to avoid perforation ignoring or enlarging by ESD physicians. Method: We proposed a training method for YOLOv3 by using GIoU and Gaussian affinity losses for perforation detection and localization in colonoscopic images. In this method, the object functional contains the generalized intersection over Union loss and Gaussian affinity loss. We propose a training method for the architecture of YOLOv3 with the presented loss functional to detect and localize perforations precisely. Results: To qualitatively and quantitatively evaluate the presented method, we created a dataset from 49 ESD videos. The results of the presented method on our dataset revealed a state-of-the-art performance of perforation detection and localization, which achieved 0.881 accuracy, 0.869 AUC, and 0.879 mean average precision. Furthermore, the presented method is able to detect a newly appeared perforation in 0.1 s. Conclusions: The experimental results demonstrated that YOLOv3 trained by the presented loss functional were very effective in perforation detection and localization. The presented method can quickly and precisely remind physicians of perforation happening in ESD. We believe a future CAD system can be constructed for clinical applications with the proposed method.

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Objective: To develop a convolutional neural network to recognize the seminal vesicle and vas deferens (SV-VD) in the posterior approach of robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP) and assess the performance of the convolutional neural network model under clinically relevant conditions. Methods: Intraoperative videos of robot-assisted radical prostatectomy performed by the posterior approach from 3 institutions were obtained between 2019 and 2020. Using SV-VD dissection videos, semantic segmentation of the seminal vesicle-vas deferens area was performed using a convolutional neural network-based approach. The dataset was split into training and test data in a 10:3 ratio. The average time required by 6 novice urologists to correctly recognize the SV-VD was compared using intraoperative videos with and without segmentation masks generated by the convolutional neural network model, which was evaluated with the test data using the Dice similarity coefficient. Training and test datasets were compared using the Mann–Whitney U-test and chi-square test. Time required to recognize the SV-VD was evaluated using the Mann–Whitney U-test. Results: From 26 patient videos, 1 040 images were created (520 SV-VD annotated images and 520 SV-VD non-displayed images). The convolutional neural network model had a Dice similarity coefficient value of 0.73 in the test data. Compared with original videos, videos with the generated segmentation mask promoted significantly faster seminal vesicle and vas deferens recognition (P < .001). Conclusion: The convolutional neural network model provides accurate recognition of the SV-VD in the posterior approach RARP, which may be helpful, especially for novice urologists.

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In this paper, we present a segmentation method for laparoscopic images using semantically similar groups for multi-class semantic segmentation. Accurate semantic segmentation is a key problem for computer assisted surgeries. Common segmentation models do not explicitly learn similarities between classes. We propose a model that, in addition to learning to segment an image into classes, also learns to segment it into human-defined semantically similar groups. We modify the LinkNet34 architecture by adding a second decoder with an auxiliary task of segmenting the image into these groups. The feature maps of the second decoder are merged into the final decoder. We validate our method against our base model LinkNet34 and a larger LinkNet50. We find that our proposed modification increased the performance both with mean Dice (average +1.5%) and mean Intersection over Union metrics (average +2.8%) on two laparoscopic datasets.

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<p>【背景】膀胱癌は経尿道手術後に再発が多い腫瘍であり、膀胱鏡での腫瘍の見落としが原因とされている。内視鏡での観察は、従来の白色光(WLI)の他に、NBIを使用するが、いずれの腫瘍検出精度は検者の技量・経験に依存するため、検査の再現性・客観性が少ないことが課題である。近年、人工知能(AI)が多くの医療分野で活用されており、AIによる検査は、客観性・再現性を持った上で、エキスパートレベルと同程度の診断能を持つ可能性があるとされている。今回、WLI/NBI膀胱鏡画像を用いて、AIによる腫瘍検出の精度を検証した。【方法】2019年から2021年まで、経尿道的膀胱腫瘍切除術(TURBT)の際に、WLI/NBIを用いて観察を行った症例の手術動画から膀胱鏡画像を作成し、腫瘍を含む画像を腫瘍画像、腫瘍を含まない画像を正常画像と定義した。腫瘍画像内の膀胱腫瘍を矩形でアノテーションを行い、テストデータ用の画像を用いてAIによる感度、特異度、陽性的中率を評価した。AIでの物体検出はtiny-YOLOを用い、腫瘍検出精度の検証を行った。【結果】WLIとNBIから、それぞれ腫瘍画像をそれぞれtiny-YOLOで学習を行い、腫瘍画像(WLI: 525枚、NBI:219枚)と正常画像(WLI:98枚、NBI:108枚)で精度検証を行った。AIによる物体検出の感度/特異度/陽性的中率は、WLIで87.8%/88.8%/97.7%、NBIで82.2%/81.4%/90.0%であった。【結論】膀胱鏡画像において、AIにより比較的良好に腫瘍検出が可能であった。更なる精度改善、リアルタイム検出への課題について、文献的考察を加え報告する。</p>

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<p>看護職は心身不調に由来する顕在化していない労働生産性低下状態（プレゼンティズム）が他職種より多く、不規則な勤務形態や強い心身ストレスにより、離職に至る率も高いのが現状である。類似研究は腰痛に注目してウェアラブルデバイスで筋硬度測定によりプレゼンティズム発生を予測するが、性別や運動経験の有無など個人の特性を大きく反映するため予測が難しいと報告がある。そこで本研究では、プレゼンティズムの主な要因で筋骨格系疼痛の原因となる看護行動を、Internet of Things (IoT)センシングで抽出・判別することを目的とする。既設のBLE 屋内測位(AoA法）アンテナを利用した加速度センサデバイスによる看護行動データの収集と、観察者の直接観察による看護行動に対するラベルデータ（看護行動、実施場所、行動の開始・終了時刻を入力）作成を実施した。看護行動は身体プレゼンティズムリスク(腰痛・膝痛・頚肩腕痛)に分類し定義した。1分毎の行動データ（位置情報の平均値、加速度の最大・最小・平均値・標準偏差）、及び時刻を入力データとし、ラベルデータを教師データとして機械学習を行い、行動認識モデルを構築した。看護行動割合は、腰痛43.6%、膝痛3.3%、頚肩腕痛7.4%であった。IoTセンシングで個人ごとのプレゼンティズムに発展する行動をモニタリングすることにより、プレゼンティズムを予防することが可能と示唆された。</p>

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We present a general framework for medical image segmentation from limited supervision, reducing the reliance on fully and densely labeled data. Our method is simple, jointly trains triple diverse models, and adopts a mix augmentation scheme, and thus is called TriMix. TriMix imposes consistency under a more challenging perturbation, i.e., combining data augmentation and model diversity on the tri-training framework. This straightforward strategy enables TriMix to serve as a strong and general learner learning from limited supervision using different kinds of imperfect labels. We conduct extensive experiments to show TriMix’s generic purpose for semi- and weakly-supervised segmentation tasks. Compared to task-specific state-of-the-arts, TriMix achieves competitive performance and sometimes surpasses them by a large margin. The code is available at https://github.com/MoriLabNU/TriMix.

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In this paper, we propose a scheme that includes automated extraction of thrombus regions and quantitative analysis of thrombosis in confocal laser scanning microscope (CLSM) blood flow image sequence. Making thrombosis model in animal models play an important role in the development of antithrombotic drugs and ascertaining thrombosis mechanisms. Making thrombosis model in cerebral cortex of mice is usually observed using a CLSM in the fluorescence mode. However, some small changes of thrombus regions are not easily observed in CLSM blood flow image sequences. In addition, it is not easy for researchers to quantitatively analyze the degree of thrombosis. Therefore, we propose a scheme to achieve automatic thrombosis region extraction and quantitative analysis. In which, our thrombosis region extraction method uses analysis of changing pattern of thrombosis regions in CLSM blood flow image sequence. Experimental results showed that our scheme can help biological researchers observe and analyze the changes of thrombosis in animal models and reduced the use of fluorescent thrombus markers.

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This article describes a method for bronchial nomenclature using real bronchoscopic (RB) images and pre-built knowledge base of branches. The bronchus has a complex tree-like structure, which increases the difficulty of bronchoscopy. Therefore, a bronchoscopic navigation system is used to help physicians during examination. Conventional navigation system used preoperative CT images and real bronchoscopic images to obtain the camera pose for navigation, whose accuracy is influenced by organ deformation. We propose a bronchial nomenclature method to estimate branch names for bronchoscopic navigation. This method consists of a bronchus knowledge base construction model, a camera motion estimation module, an anatomical structure tracking module, and a branch name estimation module. The knowledge base construction module is used to find the relationship of each branch. The anatomical tracking module is used to track the bronchial orifice (BO) extracted in each RB frame. The camera motion estimation module is used to estimate the camera motion between two frames. The branch name estimation module uses the pre-built bronchus knowledge base and BO tracking results to find the name of each branch. Experimental results showed that it is possible to estimate branch names using only RB images and the pre-built knowledge base of branches.

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Neuromelanin magnetic resonance imaging (NM-MRI) has been widely used in the diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease (PD) for its significantly enhanced contrast between the PD-related structure, the substantia nigra (SN) and surrounding tissues. To develop the computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) system of PD and reduce the labor burden of clinicians, precise and automatic segmentation of SN is becoming more and more desired. This paper proposes a novel network combining the priority gating attention and Bayesian learning for improving the accuracy of fully automatic SN segmentation from NM-MRI. Different from the conventional gated attention model, the proposed network uses the prior SN probability map for guiding the attention computation and reducing the potential disruptions introduced by the background. Additionally, to lower the risks of over-fitting and estimate the confidence scores for the segmentation results, Bayesian learning with Monte Carlo dropout is applied in the training and testing phases. The quantitative results showed that the proposed network acquired the averaged Dice score of 79.46% in comparison with the baseline model 77.93%.

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This paper proposes a deformable tissue model that introduces octree lattice vertex layout and cubic constraints to the orthodox PBD (Position Based Dynamics) method. Surgical simulation is expected to provide a safe method for training in surgery, which is especially useful for preoperative education of inexperienced surgeons and/or for the case a prior attempt is required. To build a surgical simulator, it is necessary to develop organ models with deformations and interaction algorithms between surgical instruments and organ models, all of which must be performed in real time. Since existing surgical simulators focus on real-time performance, the resolution of organ models is limited. The proposed method restricts the vertex locations of the PBD method to the vertices of the octree lattice to save computation time while maintaining a high deformation resolution. To obtain appropriate results even for large deformations, three-dimensional constraints are applied to each octree cube as the constraints of the PBD method. In the simulations, we tested the overall deformation by dropping a liver model and the local deformation scene by laparoscopic clipping. As a result, we achieved deformation simulations at 26.5 fps for the model with approximately 2,672 cube elements and 20,659 vertices.

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This work proposes an innovative self-supervised approach to monocular depth estimation in laparoscopic scenarios. Previous methods independently predicted depth maps ignoring spatial coherence in local regions and temporal correlation between adjacent images. The proposed approach leverages spatio-temporal coherence to address the challenges of textureless areas and homogeneous colors in such scenes. This approach utilizes a multi-view depth estimation model to guide monocular depth estimation when predicting depth maps. Moreover, the minimum reprojection error is extended to construct a cost volume for the multi-view model using adjacent images. Additionally, a 3D consistency of the point cloud back-projected from predicted depth maps is optimized for the monocular depth estimation model. To benefit from spatial coherence, deformable patch-matching is introduced to the monocular and multi-view models to smooth depth maps in local regions. Finally, a cycled prediction learning for view synthesis and relative poses is designed to exploit the temporal correlation between adjacent images fully. Experimental results show that the proposed method outperforms existing methods in both qualitative and quantitative evaluations. Our code is available at https://github.com/MoriLabNU/MGMDepthL.

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Semantic segmentation of laparoscopic images is an important issue for intraoperative guidance in laparoscopic surgery. However, acquiring and annotating laparoscopic datasets is labor-intensive, which limits the research on this topic. In this paper, we tackle the Domain-Adaptive Semantic Segmentation (DASS) task, which aims to train a segmentation network using only computer-generated simulated images and unlabeled real images. To bridge the large domain gap between generated and real images, we propose a Masked Frequency Consistency (MFC) module that encourages the network to learn frequency-related information of the target domain as additional cues for robust recognition. Specifically, MFC randomly masks some high-frequency information of the image to improve the consistency of the network’s predictions for low-frequency images and real images. We conduct extensive experiments on existing DASS frameworks with our MFC module and show performance improvements. Our approach achieves comparable results to fully supervised learning method on the CholecSeg8K dataset without using any manual annotation. The code is available at github.com/MoriLabNU/MFC.

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This paper introduces the improved method for the COVID-19 classification based on computed tomography (CT) volumes using a combination of a complex-architecture convolutional neural network (CNN) and orthogonal ensemble networks (OEN). The novel coronavirus disease reported in 2019 (COVID-19) is still spreading worldwide. Early and accurate diagnosis of COVID-19 is required in such a situation, and the CT scan is an essential examination. Various computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) methods have been developed to assist and accelerate doctors' diagnoses. Although one of the effective methods is ensemble learning, existing methods combine some major models which do not specialize in COVID-19. In this study, we attempted to improve the performance of a CNN for the COVID-19 classification based on chest CT volumes. The CNN model specializes in feature extraction from anisotropic chest CT volumes. We adopt the OEN, an ensemble learning method considering inter-model diversity, to boost its feature extraction ability. For the experiment, We used chest CT volumes of 1283 cases acquired in multiple medical institutions in Japan. The classification result on 257 test cases indicated that the combination could improve the classification performance.

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This paper proposes an automated classification method of COVID-19 chest CT volumes using improved 3D MLP-Mixer. Novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) spreads over the world, causing a large number of infected patients and deaths. Sudden increase in the number of COVID-19 patients causes a manpower shortage in medical institutions. Computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) system provides quick and quantitative diagnosis results. CAD system for COVID-19 enables efficient diagnosis workflow and contributes to reduce such manpower shortage. In image-based diagnosis of viral pneumonia cases including COVID-19, both local and global image features are important because viral pneumonia cause many ground glass opacities and consolidations in large areas in the lung. This paper proposes an automated classification method of chest CT volumes for COVID-19 diagnosis assistance. MLP-Mixer is a recent method of image classification using Vision Transformer-like architecture. It performs classification using both local and global image features. To classify 3D CT volumes, we developed a hybrid classification model that consists of both a 3D convolutional neural network (CNN) and a 3D version of the MLP-Mixer. Classification accuracy of the proposed method was evaluated using a dataset that contains 1205 CT volumes and obtained 79.5% of classification accuracy. The accuracy was higher than that of conventional 3D CNN models consists of 3D CNN layers and simple MLP layers.

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Ossification of the ligaments progresses slowly in the initial stages, and most patients are unaware of the disease until obvious myelopathy symptoms appear. Consequently, treatment and clinical outcomes are not satisfactory. This study is aimed at developing an automated system for the detection of the thoracic ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament (OPLL) using deep learning and plain radiography. We retrospectively reviewed the data of 146 patients with thoracic OPLL and 150 control cases without thoracic OPLL. Plain lateral thoracic radiographs were used for object detection, training, and validation. Thereafter, an object detection system was developed, and its accuracy was calculated. The performance of the proposed system was compared with that of two spine surgeons. The accuracy of the proposed object detection model based on plain lateral thoracic radiographs was 83.4%, whereas the accuracies of spine surgeons 1 and 2 were 80.4% and 77.4%, respectively. Our findings indicate that our automated system, which uses a deep learning-based method based on plain radiographs, can accurately detect thoracic OPLL. This system has the potential to improve the diagnostic accuracy of thoracic OPLL.

DOI： 10.1155/2023/8495937

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<p>【はじめに】術後成長発達する小児患者にとって、低侵襲手術は非常に重要である。しかし患者数は限られているため、しっかりとした手術を行うためにoff the job-training(OJT)が重要である。さらにOJTでの効率的な手技獲得には、手技を客観的に評価しfeed backを行うシステムが必須である。また安全で効率的な内視鏡手術を行うためには、臓器の位置関係の把握が必要であるため、術中ナビゲーションは重要な要件となる。これらの課題に対して、AIを用いた内視鏡手技評価および手術支援システムの構築に着手しており現状の成果を報告する。【方法と結果】食道閉鎖症モデルを用いた吻合手技を被験者に課し、各被験者の手技を最初に人の目で「check 表」「エラー項目」「時間」を用いて評価した。次にビデオから検出した鉗子の動きと人が判定した手技優劣の関係性をAIで学習させ、上位88％・下位95％の精度で手技優劣が自動判定可能となった。この結果を解析することで今まで必要だった50項目以上の肉眼チェックが、わずか７項目チェックするだけで手技の優劣を判断できることが明らかになった。現在食道閉鎖症の手術画像を用いて、食道・迷走神経・気管を深層学習させ、各種構造物の自動認識を進めている。【まとめ】AI画像解析により内視鏡手技の優劣をビデオで判定可能となった。この結果から新たに効率的な手技判断基準を定めることができた。術中ナビゲーションは現在精度のさらなる向上を目指している。</p>

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DOI： 10.1080/21681163.2022.2152728

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<p>Laparoscopic surgery is currently performed as one of surgical procedures for various organs. Laparoscopic surgery requires highly skill of surgeon. Therefore, computer aided surgery which is used computer technology for assisting surgery has been researched. These assistances are sometimes referred as surgical navigation. In recent year, as the development of AI (Artificial Intelligence) technology, there are many researches on laparoscopic video analysis using deep learning for assisting laparoscopic surgery. In this paper, we introduce our researches about laparoscopic video analysis using AI.</p>

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DOI： 10.24764/jsmvr.2022.0_9

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DOI： 10.1136/annrheumdis-2022-eular.933

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Computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) for colonoscopy with use of artificial intelligence (AI) is catching increased attention of endoscopists. CAD allows automated detection and pathological prediction, namely optical biopsy, of colorectal polyps during real-time endoscopy, which help endoscopists avoid missing and/or misdiagnosing colorectal lesions. With the increased number of publications in this field and emergence of the AI medical device that have already secured regulatory approval, CAD in colonoscopy is now being implemented into clinical practice. On the other side, drawbacks and weak points of CAD in colonoscopy have not been thoroughly discussed. In this review, we provide an overview of CAD for optical biopsy of colorectal lesions with a particular focus on its clinical applications and limitations.

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<p>We introduce AIs for diagnosis assistance of COVID-19 patients from CT volumes that were developed in Nagoya University. Novel coronavirus disease 2019（COVID-19）spreads over the world causing the large number of infected patients and deaths. Diagnosis assistance by AI is effective for diagnosing the large number of patients that are caused by infective diseases. We developed diagnosis assistant AIs for COVID-19 cases that evaluate the typical-ness of COVID-19 case based on image appearances from a CT volume. We developed three essential methods for the AIs including the lung region segmentation method, the clustering method of lung region, and the COVID-19 typical-ness evaluation method. To develop the AIs, we utilized huge number of medical images stored in the cloud platform of medical bigdata. We confirmed our AI has high performance for diagnosis assistance in the evaluations using CT volumes of real COVID-19 patients.</p>

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DOI： 10.1080/21681163.2021.2012835

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DOI： 10.1007/978-3-030-90874-4_9

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<p>The global incidence and mortality rate of colorectal cancer remains high. Colonoscopy is regarded as the gold standard examination for detecting and eradicating neoplastic lesions. However, there are some uncertainties in colonoscopy practice that are related to limitations in human performance. First, approximately one-fourth of colorectal neoplasms are missed on a single colonoscopy. Second, it is still difficult for nonexperts to perform adequately regarding optical biopsy. Third, recording of some quality indicators (e.g. cecal intubation, bowel preparation, and withdrawal speed） which are related to adenoma detection rate, is sometimes incomplete. With recent improvements in machine learning techniques and advances in computer performance, artificial intelligence-assisted computer-aided diagnosis is being increasingly utilized by endoscopists. In particular, the emergence of deep-learning, data-driven machine learning techniques have made the development of computer-aided systems easier than that of conventional machine learning techniques, the former currently being considered the standard artificial intelligence engine of computer-aided diagnosis by colonoscopy. To date, computer-aided detection systems seem to have improved the rate of detection of neoplasms. Additionally, computer-aided characterization systems may have the potential to improve diagnostic accuracy in real-time clinical practice. Furthermore, some artificial intelligence-assisted systems that aim to improve the quality of colonoscopy have been reported. The implementation of computer-aided system clinical practice may provide additional benefits such as helping in educational poorly performing endoscopists and supporting real-time clinical decision-making. In this review, we have focused on computer-aided diagnosis during colonoscopy reported by gastroenterologists and discussed its status, limitations, and future prospects.</p>

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DOI： 10.3169/itej.75.325

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Inherited retinal disorder (IRD) is a leading cause of blindness, and CRX is one of a number of genes reported to harbour autosomal dominant (AD) and recessive (AR) causative variants. Eighteen patients from 13 families with CRX-associated retinal disorder (CRX-RD) were identified from 730 Japanese families with IRD. Ophthalmological examinations and phenotype subgroup classification were performed. The median age of onset/latest examination was 45.0/62.5 years (range, 15–77/25–94). The median visual acuity in the right/left eye was 0.52/0.40 (range, −0.08–2.00/−0.18–1.70) logarithm of the minimum angle of resolution (LogMAR) units. There was one family with macular dystrophy, nine with cone-rod dystrophy (CORD), and three with retinitis pigmentosa. In silico analysis of CRX variants was conducted for genotype subgroup classification based on inheritance and the presence of truncating variants. Eight pathogenic CRX variants were identified, including three novel heterozygous variants (p.R43H, p.P145Lfs*42, and p.P197Afs*22). A trend of a genotype-phenotype association was revealed between the phenotype and genotype subgroups. A considerably high proportion of CRX-RD in ADCORD was determined in the Japanese cohort (39.1%), often showing the mild phenotype (CORD) with late-onset disease (sixth decade). Frequently found heterozygous missense variants located within the homeodomain underlie this mild phenotype. This large cohort study delineates the disease spectrum of CRX-RD in the Japanese population.

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Ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament (OPLL) can occur throughout the entire spine and can sometimes lead to spinal disorder. Although patients with OPLL sometimes develop physical limitations because of pain, the characteristics of pain and effects on activities of daily living (ADL) have not been precisely evaluated in OPLL patients. Therefore, we conducted a multi-center prospective study to assess whether the symptoms of cervical OPLL are different from those of cervical spondylosis (CS). A total of 263 patients with a diagnosis of cervical OPLL and 50 patients with a diagnosis of CS were enrolled and provided self-reported outcomes, including responses to the Japanese Orthopaedic Association (JOA) Cervical Myelopathy Evaluation Questionnaire (JOACMEQ), JOA Back Pain Evaluation Questionnaire (JOABPEQ), visual analog scale (VAS), and SF-36 scores. The severity of myelopathy was significantly correlated with each domain of the JOACMEQ and JOABPEQ. There was a negative correlation between the VAS score for each domain and the JOA score. There were significantly positive correlations between the JOA score and the Mental Health, Bodily Pain, Physical Functioning, Role Emotional, and Role Physical domains of the SF-36. One-to-one matching resulted in 50 pairs of patients with OPLL and CS. Although there was no significant between-group difference in scores in any of the domains of the JOACMEQ or JOABPEQ, the VAS scores for pain or numbness in the buttocks or limbs were significantly higher in the CS group; however, there was no marked difference in low back pain, chest tightness, or numbness below the chest between the two study groups. The scores for the Role Physical and Body Pain domains of the SF-36 were significantly higher in the OPLL group than in the CS group, and the mean scores for the other domains was similar between the two groups. The results of this study revealed that patients with OPLL were likely to have neck and low back pain and restriction in ADL. No specific type of pain was found in patients with OPLL when compared with those who had CS.

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DOI： https://doi.org/10.1080/21681163.2020.1835560

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DOI： 10.1002/ags3.12384

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DOI： https://doi.org/10.1080/21681163.2020.1835543

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Background: Accurate registration for surgical navigation of laparoscopic surgery is highly challenging due to vessel deformation. Here, we describe the design of a deformable model with improved matching accuracy by applying the finite element method (FEM). Material and methods: ANSYS software was used to simulate an FEM model of the vessel after pull-up based on laparoscopic gastrectomy requirements. The central line of the FEM model and the central line of the ground truth were drawn and compared. Based on the material and parameters determined from the animal experiment, a perigastric vessel FEM model of a gastric cancer patient was created, and its accuracy in a laparoscopic gastrectomy surgical scene was evaluated. Results: In the animal experiment, the FEM model created with Ogden foam material exhibited better results. The average distance between the two central lines was 6.5mm, and the average distance between their closest points was 3.8 mm. In the laparoscopic gastrectomy surgical scene, the FEM model and the true artery deformation demonstrated good coincidence. Conclusion: In this study, a deformable vessel model based on FEM was constructed using preoperative CT images to improve matching accuracy and to supply a reference for further research on deformation matching to facilitate laparoscopic gastrectomy navigation.

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Background: Identifying laparoscopic surgical videos using artificial intelligence (AI) facilitates the automation of several currently time-consuming manual processes, including video analysis, indexing, and video-based skill assessment. This study aimed to construct a large annotated dataset comprising laparoscopic colorectal surgery (LCRS) videos from multiple institutions and evaluate the accuracy of automatic recognition for surgical phase, action, and tool by combining this dataset with AI. Materials and methods: A total of 300 intraoperative videos were collected from 19 high-volume centers. A series of surgical workflows were classified into 9 phases and 3 actions, and the area of 5 tools were assigned by painting. More than 82 million frames were annotated for a phase and action classification task, and 4000 frames were annotated for a tool segmentation task. Of these frames, 80% were used for the training dataset and 20% for the test dataset. A convolutional neural network (CNN) was used to analyze the videos. Intersection over union (IoU) was used as the evaluation metric for tool recognition. Results: The overall accuracies for the automatic surgical phase and action classification task were 81.0% and 83.2%, respectively. The mean IoU for the automatic tool segmentation task for 5 tools was 51.2%. Conclusions: A large annotated dataset of LCRS videos was constructed, and the phase, action, and tool were recognized with high accuracy using AI. Our dataset has potential uses in medical applications such as automatic video indexing and surgical skill assessments. Open research will assist in improving CNN models by making our dataset available in the field of computer vision.

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Because magnifying endoscopy is considered to be more accurate at predicting the histology of colorectal polyps than nonmagnifying endoscopy, it has been attracting a lot of attention, especially in Japan. However, use of magnifying endoscopy is not yet widespread because of its limited availability and the difficulty in interpreting the acquired images. Application of artificial intelligence (AI) is now changing this situation because it helps less-skilled endoscopists to accurately interpret magnified images. Research in this field initially focused on magnifying endoscopy with narrow-band imaging as the target of AI. Most previously published retrospective studies have reported over 90% sensitivity in differentiation of neoplastic lesions; however, automatically indicating the region of interest (ROI) of the polyps that AI should analyze has been found to be challenging. To address this practical problem, some researchers have started to adopt contact endomicroscopy as a target for AI. Contact endomicroscopy includes endocytoscopy (520-fold magnification, Olympus, Tokyo, Japan) and confocal laser endomicroscopy (1000-fold magnification, Mauna Kea, Paris, France). These forms of contact endomicroscopy provide ultramagnified images that make it unnecessary to manually select the ROI because the entire image acquired by contact endomicroscopy is the ROI of the targeted polyps. This strength of contact endomicroscopy has contributed to early implementation of this technology into clinical practice, which may change the utility of magnifying endoscopy in clinical settings and help increase its use globally in the near future.

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Background: We have developed a surgical navigation system that presents virtual thoracoscopic images using computed tomography (CT) image data, as if you are observing intra-thoracic cavity in synchronization with the real thoracoscopic view. Using this system, we made it possible to simultaneously visualize the ‘area of lung cancer before induction therapy’ and the ‘optimal resection line for obtaining a safe surgical margin’ as a virtual thoracoscopic view. We applied this navigation system in the clinical setting in operations for lung cancer patients with chest wall invasion after induction chemoradiotherapy. Methods: The proposed surgical navigation system consisted of a three-dimensional (3D) positional tracker and a virtual thoracoscopy system. The 3D positional tracker was used to recognize the positional information of the real thoracoscope. The virtual thoracoscopy system generated virtual thoracoscopic views based on CT image data. Combined with these two technologies, patient-to-image registration was performed in two patients, and the results generated a virtual thoracoscopic view that was synchronized with the real thoracoscopic view. Results: The operations were started with video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS), and the navigation system was activated at the same time. The virtual thoracoscopic view was synchronized with the real thoracoscopic view, which also simultaneously indicated the ‘area of lung cancer before induction therapy’ and the ‘optimal resection lines for obtaining a safe surgical margin’. We marked the optimal lines using an electric scalpel, and then performed lobectomy and chest wall resection with a sufficient surgical margin using these landmarks. Pathological examinations confirmed that the surgical margin was negative. No complications related to the navigation system were encountered during or after the procedures. Conclusions: Using this proposed navigation system, we could obtain a ‘CT-derived virtual intrathoracic 3D view of the patient’ that was aligned with the thoracoscopic view during surgery. The accurate identification of areas of cancer invasion before induction therapy using this system might be a useful for determining optimal surgical resection lines.

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DOI： 10.1016/j.media.2019.101623

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DOI： 10.1254/fpj.20013

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This paper presents an automated classification method of infective and non-infective diseases from anterior eye images. Treatments for cases of infective and non-infective diseases are different. Distinguishing them from anterior eye images is important to decide a treatment plan. Ophthalmologists distinguish them empirically. Quantitative classification of them based on computer assistance is necessary. We propose an automated classification method of anterior eye images into cases of infective or non-infective disease. Anterior eye images have large variations of the eye position and brightness of illumination. This makes the classification difficult. If we focus on the cornea, positions of opacified areas in the corneas are different between cases of the infective and non-infective diseases. Therefore, we solve the anterior eye image classification task by using an object detection approach targeting the cornea. This approach can be said as "anatomical structure focused image classification". We use the YOLOv3 object detection method to detect corneas of infective disease and corneas of non-infective disease. The detection result is used to define a classification result of an image. In our experiments using anterior eye images, 88.3% of images were correctly classified by the proposed method.

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The performance of deep learning based methods strongly relies on the number of datasets used for training. Many efforts have been made to increase the data in the medical image analysis field. However, unlike photography images, it is hard to generate centralized databases to collect medical images because of numerous technical, legal, and privacy issues. In this work, we study the use of federated learning between two institutions in a real-world setting to collaboratively train a model without sharing the raw data across national boundaries. We quantitatively compare the segmentation models obtained with federated learning and local training alone. Our experimental results show that federated learning models have higher generalizability than standalone training.

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Laparoscopic surgery is now a standard treatment for gastric cancer. Currently, the location of the gastric cancer is identified during laparoscopic surgery via the preoperative endoscopic injection of charcoal ink around the primary tumor; however, the wide spread of injected charcoal ink can make it difficult to accurately visualize the specific site of the tumor. To precisely identify the locations of gastric tumors, we developed a fluorescent detection system comprising clips with glass phosphor (Yb 3+ , Nd 3+ doped to Bi 2 O 3 -B 2 O 3 -based glasses, size: 2 mm × 1 mm × 3 mm) fixed in the stomach and a laparoscopic fluorescent detection system for clip-derived near-infrared (NIR) light (976 nm). We conducted two ex vivo experiments to evaluate the performance of this fluorescent detection system in an extirpated pig stomach and a freshly resected human stomach and were able to successfully detect NIR fluorescence emitted from the clip in the stomach through the stomach wall by the irradiation of excitation light (λ: 808 nm). These results suggest that the proposed combined NIR light-emitting clip and laparoscopic fluorescent detection system could be very useful in clinical practice for accurately identifying the location of a primary gastric tumor during laparoscopic surgery.

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This paper presents a colonoscope tracking method utilizing a colon shape estimation method. CT colonography is used as a less-invasive colon diagnosis method. If colonic polyps or early-stage cancers are found, they are removed in a colonoscopic examination. In the colonoscopic examination, understanding where the colonoscope running in the colon is difficult. A colonoscope navigation system is necessary to reduce overlooking of polyps. We propose a colonoscope tracking method for navigation systems. Previous colonoscope tracking methods caused large tracking errors because they do not consider deformations of the colon during colonoscope insertions. We utilize the shape estimation network (SEN), which estimates deformed colon shape during colonoscope insertions. The SEN is a neural network containing long short-term memory (LSTM) layer. To perform colon shape estimation suitable to the real clinical situation, we trained the SEN using data obtained during colonoscope operations of physicians. The proposed tracking method performs mapping of the colonoscope tip position to a position in the colon using estimation results of the SEN. We evaluated the proposed method in a phantom study. We confirmed that tracking errors of the proposed method was enough small to perform navigation in the ascending, transverse, and descending colons.

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One of the most common tasks in medical imaging is semantic segmentation. Achieving this segmentation automatically has been an active area of research, but the task has been proven very challenging due to the large variation of anatomy across different patients. However, recent advances in deep learning have made it possible to significantly improve the performance of image recognition and semantic segmentation methods in the field of computer vision. Due to the data driven approaches of hierarchical feature learning in deep learning frameworks, these advances can be translated to medical images without much difficulty. Several variations of deep convolutional neural networks have been successfully applied to medical images. Especially fully convolutional architectures have been proven efficient for segmentation of 3D medical images. In this article, we describe how to build a 3D fully convolutional network (FCN) that can process 3D images in order to produce automatic semantic segmentations. The model is trained and evaluated on a clinical computed tomography (CT) dataset and shows stateof-the-art performance in multi-organ segmentation.

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DOI： 10.1007/978-3-030-00937-3_21

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In this paper, we propose a new airway segmentation algorithm from 3D chest CT volumes based on the volume of interest (VOI). The algorithm segments each bronchial branch by recognizing the airway regions from the trachea using the VOIs to segment each branch. A VOI is placed to envelop the branch currently being processed. Then a cavity enhancement filter is performed only inside the current VOI so that each branch is extracted. At the same time, we perform a leakage detection scheme to avoid any leakage regions inside the VOI. Next the gradient vector flow magnitude map and a tubular-likeness function are computed in each VOI. This assists the predictions of both the position and direction of the next child VOIs to detect the next child branches to continue the tracking algorithm. Finally, we unify all of the extracted airway regions to form a complete airway tree. We used a dataset that includes 50 standard-dose human chest CT volumes to evaluate our proposed algorithm. The average extraction rate was approximately 78.1% with a significantly decreased false positive rate compared to the previous method.

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DOI： 10.1117/1.jmi.4.4.044502

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Bionic humanoid systems, which are elaborate human models with sensors, have been developed as a tool for quantitative evaluation of doctors' psychomotor skills and medical device performances. For creation of the elaborate human models, this study presents automated segmentation of head sectioned images using sparsely-Annotated data based on deep convolutional neural network. We applied the following fully convolutional networks (FCNs) to the sparse-Annotation-based segmentation: a standard FCN and a dilated convolution based FCN. To validate the availability of FCNs for segmentation of head structures from sparse annotation, we performed 8- and 243-label segmentation experiments using different two sets of head sectioned images in the Visible Korean Human project. In the segmentation experiments, only 10% of all images in each data set were used for training data. Both of the FCNs could achieve the mean segmentation accuracy of more than 85% in the 8-label segmentation. In the 243-label segmentation, though the mean segmentation accuracy was about 50%, the results suggested that the FCNs, especially the dilated convolution based FCNs, had potential to achieve accurate segmentation of anatomical structures, except for small-sized and complex-shaped tissues, even from sparse annotation.

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This paper presents a fully automated atlas-based pancreas segmentation method from CT volumes utilizing 3D fully convolutional network (FCN) feature-based pancreas localization. Segmentation of the pancreas is difficult because it has larger inter-patient spatial variations than other organs. Previous pancreas segmentation methods failed to deal with such variations. We propose a fully automated pancreas segmentation method that contains novel localization and segmentation. Since the pancreas neighbors many other organs, its position and size are strongly related to the positions of the surrounding organs. We estimate the position and the size of the pancreas (localization) from global features by regression forests. As global features, we use intensity differences and 3D FCN deep learned features, which include automatically extracted essential features for segmentation. We chose 3D FCN features from a trained 3D U-Net, which is trained to perform multi-organ segmentation. The global features include both the pancreas and surrounding organ information. After localization, a patient-specific probabilistic atlas-based pancreas segmentation is performed. In evaluation results with 146 CT volumes, we achieved 60.6% of the Jaccard index and 73.9% of the Dice overlap.

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<p>This paper briefly introduces 3D printing technology for medical applications. 3D printing technology is obtaining a lot of attentions from various fields including rapid prototyping and manufacturing, home use and medical applications. Medical applications of 3D printing are including:（a）diagnostic aid,（b）surgical aid,（c）medical education,（d）medical training, and（e）re-generative medicine. In this short summary, we will briefly explain the various mechanism of 3D printing and several printing techniques for reproducing organ models by 3D printing techniques. Also the recent topics in international conferences are introduced here.</p>

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This paper presents a method for extracting an airway region from 3D chest CT volumes that uses a combination of tube enhancement filters, voxel classification based on machine learning methods and graph-cut algorithm. Lots of previous methods utilize region growing or level set algorithms without any prior knowledge of bronchi, which always fail when they reach to the peripheral bronchi. In this paper, a method of extraction based on airway shape and machine learning is proposed. The proposed method detects candidate voxels of bronchial regions by using two types of enhancement filters, and a classifier model is built for selecting the proper candidates regions based on intensity and shape features and finally the selected candidate voxels are connected by graph-cut algorithm. We applied this method on six cases of 3D chest CT volumes. The results show that this method can extract the smaller airway branches without leaking into the lung parenchyma areas.

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<p>In this study, we experimentally investigated the influence of a three-dimensional (3D) graphic image and a 3D-printed object on a spatial reasoning task in a situation where liver resection surgery was presupposed. The results of the study indicated that using a 3D-printed object produced more accurate and faster mental model construction of a liver structure than a 3D image. Using a 3D-printed object was assumed to reduce cognitive load and information accessing cost more than using a 3D image.</p>

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In this paper, we present a preliminary report of a multiscale registration method between micro-focus X-ray CT (micro CT) volumes taken in different scales. 3D fine structures of target objects can be observed on micro CT volumes, which are difficult to observe on clinical CT volumes. Micro CT scanners can scan specimens in various resolutions. In their high resolution volumes, ultra fine structures of specimens can be observed, while scanned areas are limited to very small. On the other hand, in low resolution volumes, large areas can be captured, while fine structures of specimens are difficult to observe. The fusion volume of the high and low resolution volumes will have benefits of both. Because the difference of resolutions between the high and low resolution volumes may vary greatly, an intermediate resolution volume is required for successful fusion of volumes. To perform such volume fusion, a cascade multi-resolution registration technique is required. To register micro CT volumes that have quite different resolutions, we employ a cascade co-registration technique. In the cascade co-registration process, intermediate resolution volumes are used in a registration process of the high and low resolution volumes. In the registration between two volumes, we apply two steps registration techniques. In the first step, a block division is used to register two resolution volumes. Afterward, we estimate the fine spatial positions relating the registered two volumes using the Powell method. The registration result can be used to generate a fusion volume of the high and low resolution volumes.

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PURPOSE: We propose a large-factor super-resolution (SR) method for performing SR on registered medical image datasets. Conventional SR approaches use low-resolution (LR) and high-resolution (HR) image pairs to train a deep convolutional neural network (DCN). However, LR-HR images in medical imaging are commonly acquired from different imaging devices, and acquiring LR-HR image pairs needs registration. Registered LR-HR images have registration errors inevitably. Using LR-HR images with registration error for training an SR DCN causes collapsed SR results. To address these challenges, we introduce a novel SR approach designed specifically for registered LR-HR medical images. METHODS: We propose style-subnets-assisted generative latent bank for large-factor super-resolution (SGSR) trained with registered medical image datasets. Pre-trained generative models named generative latent bank (GLB), which stores rich image priors, can be applied in SR to generate realistic and faithful images. We improve GLB by newly introducing style-subnets-assisted GLB (S-GLB). We also propose a novel inter-uncertainty loss to boost our method's performance. Introducing more spatial information by inputting adjacent slices further improved the results. RESULTS: SGSR outperforms state-of-the-art (SOTA) supervised SR methods qualitatively and quantitatively on multiple datasets. SGSR achieved higher reconstruction accuracy than recently supervised baselines by increasing peak signal-to-noise ratio from 32.628 to 34.206 dB. CONCLUSION: SGSR performs large-factor SR while given a registered LR-HR medical image dataset with registration error for training. SGSR's results have both realistic textures and accurate anatomical structures due to favorable quantitative and qualitative results. Experiments on multiple datasets demonstrated SGSR's superiority over other SOTA methods. SR medical images generated by SGSR are expected to improve the accuracy of pre-surgery diagnosis and reduce patient burden.

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This study focuses on enhancing the inference speed of laparoscopic tool detection on embedded devices. Laparoscopy, a minimally invasive surgery technique, markedly reduces patient recovery times and postoperative complications. Real-time laparoscopic tool detection helps assisting laparoscopy by providing information for surgical navigation, and its implementation on embedded devices is gaining interest due to the portability, network independence and scalability of the devices. However, embedded devices often face computation resource limitations, potentially hindering inference speed. To mitigate this concern, the work introduces a two-fold modification to the YOLOv7 model: the feature channels and integrate RepBlock is halved, yielding the YOLOv7-RepFPN model. This configuration leads to a significant reduction in computational complexity. Additionally, the focal EIoU (efficient intersection of union) loss function is employed for bounding box regression. Experimental results on an embedded device demonstrate that for frame-by-frame laparoscopic tool detection, the proposed YOLOv7-RepFPN achieved an mAP of 88.2% (with IoU set to 0.5) on a custom dataset based on EndoVis17, and an inference speed of 62.9 FPS. Contrasting with the original YOLOv7, which garnered an 89.3% mAP and 41.8 FPS under identical conditions, the methodology enhances the speed by 21.1 FPS while maintaining detection accuracy. This emphasizes the effectiveness of the work.

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The task of segmentation is integral to computer-aided surgery systems. Given the privacy concerns associated with medical data, collecting a large amount of annotated data for training is challenging. Unsupervised learning techniques, such as contrastive learning, have shown powerful capabilities in learning image-level representations from unlabelled data. This study leverages classification labels to enhance the accuracy of the segmentation model trained on limited annotated data. The method uses a multi-scale projection head to extract image features at various scales. The partitioning method for positive sample pairs is then improved to perform contrastive learning on the extracted features at each scale to effectively represent the differences between positive and negative samples in contrastive learning. Furthermore, the model is trained simultaneously with both segmentation labels and classification labels. This enables the model to extract features more effectively from each segmentation target class and further accelerates the convergence speed. The method was validated using the publicly available CholecSeg8k dataset for comprehensive abdominal cavity surgical segmentation. Compared to select existing methods, the proposed approach significantly enhances segmentation performance, even with a small labelled subset (1–10%) of the dataset, showcasing a superior intersection over union (IoU) score.

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This paper focuses on a new and challenging problem related to instrument segmentation. This paper aims to learn a generalizable model from distributed datasets with various imperfect annotations. Collecting a large-scale dataset for centralized learning is usually impeded due to data silos and privacy issues. Besides, local clients, such as hospitals or medical institutes, may hold datasets with diverse and imperfect annotations. These datasets can include scarce annotations (many samples are unlabelled), noisy labels prone to errors, and scribble annotations with less precision. Federated learning (FL) has emerged as an attractive paradigm for developing global models with these locally distributed datasets. However, its potential in instrument segmentation has yet to be fully investigated. Moreover, the problem of learning from various imperfect annotations in an FL setup is rarely studied, even though it presents a more practical and beneficial scenario. This work rethinks instrument segmentation in such a setting and propose a practical FL framework for this issue. Notably, this approach surpassed centralized learning under various imperfect annotation settings. This method established a foundational benchmark, and future work can build upon it by considering each client owning various annotations and aligning closer with real-world complexities.

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PURPOSE: Minimally invasive surgery (MIS) using a thoraco- or laparoscope is becoming a more common surgical technique. In MIS, a magnified view from a thoracoscope helps surgeons conduct precise operations. However, there is a risk of the visible area becoming narrow. To confirm that the operation field is safe, the surgeon will draw the thoracoscope back to check the marginal area of the target and insert it again many times during MIS. To reduce the surgeon's load, we aim to visualize the entire thoracic cavity using a newly developed device called "panorama vision ring" (PVR). METHOD: The PVR is used instead of a wound retractor or a trocar. It is a ring-type socket with one big hole for the thoracoscope and four small holes for tiny cameras placed around the big hole. The views from the tiny cameras are fused into one wider view that visualizes the entire thoracic cavity. A surgeon can proceed with an operation by checking what exists outside of the thoracoscopic view. Also, she/he can check whether or not bleeding has occurred from the image of the entire cavity. RESULTS: We evaluated the view-expansion ability of the PVR by using a three-dimensional full-scale thoracic model. The experimental results showed that the entire thoracic cavity could be visible in a panoramic view generated by the PVR. We also demonstrated pulmonary lobectomy in virtual MIS using the PVR. Surgeons could perform a pulmonary lobectomy while checking the entire cavity. CONCLUSION: We developed the PVR, which uses tiny auxiliary cameras to create a panoramic view of the entire thoracic cavity during MIS. We aim to make MIS safer for patients and more comfortable for surgeons through the development of the PVR.

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Medical image analysis approaches such as data augmentation and domain adaption need huge amounts of realistic medical images. Generating realistic medical images by machine learning is a feasible approach. We propose L-former, a lightweight Transformer for realistic medical image generation. L-former can generate more reliable and realistic medical images than recent generative adversarial networks (GANs). Meanwhile, L-former does not consume as high computational cost as conventional Transformer-based generative models. L-former uses Transformers to generate low-resolution feature vectors at shallow layers, and uses convolutional neural networks to generate high-resolution realistic medical images at deep layers. Experimental results showed that L-former outperformed conventional GANs by FID scores 33.79 and 76.85 on two datasets, respectively. We further conducted a downstream study by using the images generated by L-former to perform a super-resolution task. A high PSNR score of 27.87 proved L-former's ability to generate reliable images for super-resolution and showed its potential for applications in medical diagnosis.

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This study presents a novel framework for classifying and visualizing pneumonia induced by COVID-19 from CT images. Although many image classification methods using deep learning have been proposed, in the case of medical image fields, standard classification methods are unable to be used in some cases because the medical images that belong to the same category vary depending on the progression of the symptoms and the size of the inflamed area. In addition, it is essential that the models used be transparent and explainable, allowing health care providers to trust the models and avoid mistakes. In this study, we propose a classification method using contrastive learning and an attention mechanism. Contrastive learning is able to close the distance for images of the same category and generate a better feature space for classification. An attention mechanism is able to emphasize an important area in the image and visualize the location related to classification. Through experiments conducted on two-types of classification using a three-fold cross validation, we confirmed that the classification accuracy was significantly improved; in addition, a detailed visual explanation was achieved comparison with conventional methods.

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PURPOSE: Precise polyp detection and localisation are essential for colonoscopy diagnosis. Statistical machine learning with a large-scale data set can contribute to the construction of a computer-aided diagnosis system for the prevention of overlooking and miss-localisation of a polyp in colonoscopy. We propose new visual explaining methods for a well-trained object detector, which achieves fast and accurate polyp detection with a bounding box towards a precise automated polyp localisation. METHOD: We refine gradient-weighted class activation mapping for more accurate highlighting of important patterns in processing a convolutional neural network. Extending the refined mapping into multiscaled processing, we define object activation mapping that highlights important object patterns in an image for a detection task. Finally, we define polyp activation mapping to achieve precise polyp localisation by integrating adaptive local thresholding into object activation mapping. We experimentally evaluate the proposed visual explaining methods with four publicly available databases. RESULTS: The refined mapping visualises important patterns in each convolutional layer more accurately than the original gradient-weighted class activation mapping. The object activation mapping clearly visualises important patterns in colonoscopic images for polyp detection. The polyp activation mapping localises the detected polyps in ETIS-Larib, CVC-Clinic and Kvasir-SEG database with mean Dice scores of 0.76, 0.72 and 0.72, respectively. CONCLUSIONS: We developed new visual explaining methods for a convolutional neural network by refining and extending gradient-weighted class activation mapping. Experimental results demonstrated the validity of the proposed methods by showing that accurate visualisation of important patterns and localisation of polyps in a colonoscopic image. The proposed visual explaining methods are useful for the interpreting and applying a trained polyp detector.

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PURPOSE: Artery contrasted computed tomography (CT) enables accurate observations of the arteries and surrounding structures, thus being widely used for the diagnosis of diseases such as aneurysm. To avoid the complications caused by contrast agent, this paper proposes an aorta-aware deep learning method to synthesize artery contrasted CT volume form non-contrast CT volume. METHODS: By introducing auxiliary multi-resolution segmentation tasks in the generator, we force the proposed network to focus on the regions of aorta and the other vascular structures. Then, the segmentation results produced by the auxiliary tasks were used to extract aorta. The detection of abnormal CT images containing aneurysm was implemented by estimating the maximum axial radius of aorta. RESULTS: In comparison with the baseline models, the proposed network with auxiliary tasks achieved better performances with higher peak signal-noise ratio value. In aorta regions which are supposed to be the main region of interest in many clinic scenarios, the average improvement can be up to 0.33dB. Using the synthesized artery contrasted CT, the F score of aneurysm detection achieved 0.58 at slice level and 0.85 at case level. CONCLUSION: This study tries to address the problem of non-contrast to artery contrasted CT modality translation by employing a deep learning model with aorta awareness. The auxiliary tasks help the proposed model focus on aorta regions and synthesize results with clearer boundaries. Additionally, the synthesized artery contrasted CT shows potential in identifying slices with abdominal aortic aneurysm, and may provide an option for patients with contrast agent allergy.

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Purpose A three-dimensional (3D) structure extraction technique viewed from a two-dimensional image is essential for the development of a computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) system for colonoscopy. However, a straightforward application of existing depth-estimation methods to colonoscopic images is impossible or inappropriate due to several limitations of colonoscopes. In particular, the absence of ground-truth depth for colonoscopic images hinders the application of supervised machine learning methods. To circumvent these difficulties, we developed an unsupervised and accurate depth-estimation method. Method We propose a novel unsupervised depth-estimation method by introducing a Lambertian-reflection model as an auxiliary task to domain translation between real and virtual colonoscopic images. This auxiliary task contributes to accurate depth estimation by maintaining the Lambertian-reflection assumption. In our experiments, we qualitatively evaluate the proposed method by comparing it with state-of-the-art unsupervised methods. Furthermore, we present two quantitative evaluations of the proposed method using a measuring device, as well as a new 3D reconstruction technique and measured polyp sizes. Results Our proposed method achieved accurate depth estimation with an average estimation error of less than 1 mm for regions close to the colonoscope in both of two types of quantitative evaluations. Qualitative evaluation showed that the introduced auxiliary task reduces the effects of specular reflections and colon wall textures on depth estimation and our proposed method achieved smooth depth estimation without noise, thus validating the proposed method. Conclusions We developed an accurate depth-estimation method with a new type of unsupervised domain translation with the auxiliary task. This method is useful for analysis of colonoscopic images and for the development of a CAD system since it can extract accurate 3D information.

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BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted polyp detection systems for colonoscopic use are currently attracting attention because they may reduce the possibility of missed adenomas. However, few systems have the necessary regulatory approval for use in clinical practice. We aimed to develop an AI-assisted polyp detection system and to validate its performance using a large colonoscopy video database designed to be publicly accessible. METHODS: To develop the deep learning-based AI system, 56,668 independent colonoscopy images were obtained from 5 centers for use as training images. To validate the trained AI system, consecutive colonoscopy videos taken at a university hospital between October 2018 and January 2019 were searched to construct a database containing polyps with unbiased variance. All images were annotated by endoscopists according to the presence or absence of polyps and the polyps' locations with bounding boxes. RESULTS: A total of 1405 videos acquired during the study period were identified for the validation database, 797 of which contained at least 1 polyp. Of these, 100 videos containing 100 independent polyps and 13 videos negative for polyps were randomly extracted, resulting in 152,560 frames (49,799 positive frames and 102,761 negative frames) for the database. The AI showed 90.5% sensitivity and 93.7% specificity for frame-based analysis. The per-polyp sensitivities for all, diminutive, protruded, and flat polyps were 98.0%, 98.3%, 98.5%, and 97.0%, respectively. CONCLUSIONS: Our trained AI system was validated with a new large publicly accessible colonoscopy database and could identify colorectal lesions with high sensitivity and specificity. (Clinical trial registration number: UMIN 000037064.).

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BACKGROUND & AIMS: In accordance with guidelines, most patients with T1 colorectal cancers (CRC) undergo surgical resection with lymph node dissection, despite the low incidence (∼10%) of metastasis to lymph nodes. To reduce unnecessary surgical resections, we used artificial intelligence to build a model to identify T1 colorectal tumors at risk for metastasis to lymph node and validated the model in a separate set of patients. METHODS: We collected data from 3134 patients with T1 CRC treated at 6 hospitals in Japan from April 1997 through September 2017 (training cohort). We developed a machine-learning artificial neural network (ANN) using data on patients' age and sex, as well as tumor size, location, morphology, lymphatic and vascular invasion, and histologic grade. We then conducted the external validation on the ANN model using independent 939 patients at another hospital during the same period (validation cohort). We calculated areas under the receiver operator characteristics curves (AUCs) for the ability of the model and US guidelines to identify patients with lymph node metastases. RESULTS: Lymph node metastases were found in 319 (10.2%) of 3134 patients in the training cohort and 79 (8.4%) of /939 patients in the validation cohort. In the validation cohort, the ANN model identified patients with lymph node metastases with an AUC of 0.83, whereas the guidelines identified patients with lymph node metastases with an AUC of 0.73 (P < .001). When the analysis was limited to patients with initial endoscopic resection (n = 517), the ANN model identified patients with lymph node metastases with an AUC of 0.84 and the guidelines identified these patients with an AUC of 0.77 (P = .005). CONCLUSIONS: The ANN model outperformed guidelines in identifying patients with T1 CRCs who had lymph node metastases. This model might be used to determine which patients require additional surgery after endoscopic resection of T1 CRCs. UMIN Clinical Trials Registry no: UMIN000038609.

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PURPOSE: In recent years, fully convolutional networks (FCNs) have been applied to various medical image segmentation tasks. However, it is difficult to generate a large amount of high-quality annotation data to train FCNs for medical image segmentation. Thus, it is desired to achieve high segmentation performances even from incomplete training data. We aim to evaluate performance of FCNs to clean noises and interpolate labels from noisy and sparsely given label images. METHODS: To evaluate the label cleaning and propagation performance of FCNs, we used 2D and 3D FCNs to perform volumetric brain segmentation from magnetic resonance image volumes, based on network training on incomplete training datasets from noisy and sparse annotation. RESULTS: The experimental results using pseudo-incomplete training data showed that both 2D and 3D FCNs could provide improved segmentation results from the incomplete training data, especially by using three orthogonal annotation images for network training. CONCLUSION: This paper presented a validation for label cleaning and propagation based on FCNs. FCNs might have the potential to achieve improved segmentation performances even from sparse annotation data including possible noises by manual annotation, which can be an important clue to more efficient annotation.

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The global incidence and mortality rate of colorectal cancer remains high. Colonoscopy is regarded as the gold standard examination for detecting and eradicating neoplastic lesions. However, there are some uncertainties in colonoscopy practice that are related to limitations in human performance. First, approximately one-fourth of colorectal neoplasms are missed on a single colonoscopy. Second, it is still difficult for non-experts to perform adequately regarding optical biopsy. Third, recording of some quality indicators (e.g. cecal intubation, bowel preparation, and withdrawal speed) which are related to adenoma detection rate, is sometimes incomplete. With recent improvements in machine learning techniques and advances in computer performance, artificial intelligence-assisted computer-aided diagnosis is being increasingly utilized by endoscopists. In particular, the emergence of deep-learning, data-driven machine learning techniques have made the development of computer-aided systems easier than that of conventional machine learning techniques, the former currently being considered the standard artificial intelligence engine of computer-aided diagnosis by colonoscopy. To date, computer-aided detection systems seem to have improved the rate of detection of neoplasms. Additionally, computer-aided characterization systems may have the potential to improve diagnostic accuracy in real-time clinical practice. Furthermore, some artificial intelligence-assisted systems that aim to improve the quality of colonoscopy have been reported. The implementation of computer-aided system clinical practice may provide additional benefits such as helping in educational poorly performing endoscopists and supporting real-time clinical decision-making. In this review, we have focused on computer-aided diagnosis during colonoscopy reported by gastroenterologists and discussed its status, limitations, and future prospects.

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PURPOSE: An endocytoscope is a new type of endoscope that enables users to perform conventional endoscopic observation and ultramagnified observation at the cell level. Although endocytoscopy is expected to improve the cost-effectiveness of colonoscopy, endocytoscopic image diagnosis requires much knowledge and high-level experience for physicians. To circumvent this difficulty, we developed a robust endocytoscopic (EC) image classification method for the construction of a computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) system, since real-time CAD can resolve accuracy issues and reduce interobserver variability. METHOD: We propose a novel feature extraction method by introducing higher-order symmetric tensor analysis to the computation of multi-scale topological statistics on an image, and we integrate this feature extraction with EC image classification. We experimentally evaluate the classification accuracy of our proposed method by comparing it with three deep learning methods. We conducted this comparison by using our large-scale multi-hospital dataset of about 55,000 images of over 3800 patients. RESULTS: Our proposed method achieved an average 90% classification accuracy for all the images in four hospitals even though the best deep learning method achieved 95% classification accuracy for images in only one hospital. In the case with a rejection option, the proposed method achieved expert-level accurate classification. These results demonstrate the robustness of our proposed method against pit pattern variations, including differences of colours, contrasts, shapes, and hospitals. CONCLUSIONS: We developed a robust EC image classification method with novel feature extraction. This method is useful for the construction of a practical CAD system, since it has sufficient generalisation ability.

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DOI： 10.1002/mp.14442

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BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Artificial intelligence (AI) is being implemented in colonoscopy practice, but no study has investigated whether AI is cost saving. We aimed to quantify the cost reduction using AI as an aid in the optical diagnosis of colorectal polyps. METHODS: This study is an add-on analysis of a clinical trial that investigated the performance of AI for differentiating colorectal polyps (ie, neoplastic versus non-neoplastic). We included all patients with diminutive (≤5 mm) rectosigmoid polyps in the analyses. The average colonoscopy cost was compared for 2 scenarios: (1) a diagnose-and-leave strategy supported by the AI prediction (ie, diminutive rectosigmoid polyps were not removed when predicted as non-neoplastic), and (2) a resect-all-polyps strategy. Gross annual costs for colonoscopies were also calculated based on the number and reimbursement of colonoscopies conducted under public health insurances in 4 countries. RESULTS: Overall, 207 patients with 250 diminutive rectosigmoid polyps (104 neoplastic, 144 non-neoplastic, and 2 indeterminate) were included. AI correctly differentiated neoplastic polyps with 93.3% sensitivity, 95.2% specificity, and 95.2% negative predictive value. Thus, 105 polyps were removed and 145 were left under the diagnose-and-leave strategy, which was estimated to reduce the average colonoscopy cost and the gross annual reimbursement for colonoscopies by 18.9% and US$149.2 million in Japan, 6.9% and US$12.3 million in England, 7.6% and US$1.1 million in Norway, and 10.9% and US$85.2 million in the United States, respectively, compared with the resect-all-polyps strategy. CONCLUSIONS: The use of AI to enable the diagnose-and-leave strategy results in substantial cost reductions for colonoscopy.

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Purpose: High-resolution cardiac imaging and fiber analysis methods are required to understand cardiac anatomy. Although refraction-contrast x-ray CT (RCT) has high soft tissue contrast, it cannot be commonly used because it requires a synchrotron system. Microfocus x-ray CT ( μ CT ) is another commercially available imaging modality. Approach: We evaluate the usefulness of μ CT for analyzing fibers by quantitatively and objectively comparing the results with RCT. To do so, we scanned a rabbit heart by both modalities with our original protocol of prepared materials and compared their image-based analysis results, including fiber orientation estimation and fiber tracking. Results: Fiber orientations estimated by two modalities were closely resembled under the correlation coefficient of 0.63. Tracked fibers from both modalities matched well the anatomical knowledge that fiber orientations are different inside and outside of the left ventricle. However, the μ CT volume caused incorrect tracking around the boundaries caused by stitching scanning. Conclusions: Our experimental results demonstrated that μ CT scanning can be used for cardiac fiber analysis, although further investigation is required in the differences of fiber analysis results on RCT and μ CT .

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This Letter presents a stable polyp-scene classification method with low false positive (FP) detection. Precise automated polyp detection during colonoscopies is essential for preventing colon-cancer deaths. There is, therefore, a demand for a computer-assisted diagnosis (CAD) system for colonoscopies to assist colonoscopists. A high-performance CAD system with spatiotemporal feature extraction via a three-dimensional convolutional neural network (3D CNN) with a limited dataset achieved about 80% detection accuracy in actual colonoscopic videos. Consequently, further improvement of a 3D CNN with larger training data is feasible. However, the ratio between polyp and non-polyp scenes is quite imbalanced in a large colonoscopic video dataset. This imbalance leads to unstable polyp detection. To circumvent this, the authors propose an efficient and balanced learning technique for deep residual learning. The authors' method randomly selects a subset of non-polyp scenes whose number is the same number of still images of polyp scenes at the beginning of each epoch of learning. Furthermore, they introduce post-processing for stable polyp-scene classification. This post-processing reduces the FPs that occur in the practical application of polyp-scene classification. They evaluate several residual networks with a large polyp-detection dataset consisting of 1027 colonoscopic videos. In the scene-level evaluation, their proposed method achieves stable polyp-scene classification with 0.86 sensitivity and 0.97 specificity.

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DOI： 10.1016/j.compmedimag.2019.101642

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BACKGROUND & AIMS: Precise optical diagnosis of colorectal polyps could improve the cost-effectiveness of colonoscopy and reduce polypectomy-related complications. However, it is difficult for community-based non-experts to obtain sufficient diagnostic performance. Artificial intelligence-based systems have been developed to analyze endoscopic images; they identify neoplasms with high accuracy and low interobserver variation. We performed a multi-center study to determine the diagnostic accuracy of EndoBRAIN, an artificial intelligence-based system that analyzes cell nuclei, crypt structure, and microvessels in endoscopic images, in identification of colon neoplasms. METHODS: The EndoBRAIN system was initially trained using 69,142 endocytoscopic images, taken at 520-fold magnification, from patients with colorectal polyps who underwent endoscopy at 5 academic centers in Japan from October 2017 through March 2018. We performed a retrospective comparative analysis of the diagnostic performance of EndoBRAIN vs that of 30 endoscopists (20 trainees and 10 experts); the endoscopists assessed images from 100 cases produced via white-light microscopy, endocytoscopy with methylene blue staining, and endocytoscopy with narrow-band imaging. EndoBRAIN was used to assess endocytoscopic, but not white-light, images. The primary outcome was the accuracy of EndoBrain in distinguishing neoplasms from non-neoplasms, compared with that of endoscopists, using findings from pathology analysis as the reference standard. RESULTS: In analysis of stained endocytoscopic images, EndoBRAIN identified colon lesions with 96.9% sensitivity (95% CI, 95.8%-97.8%), 100% specificity (95% CI, 99.6%-100%), 98% accuracy (95% CI, 97.3%-98.6%), a 100% positive-predictive value (95% CI, 99.8%-100%), and a 94.6% negative-predictive (95% CI, 92.7%-96.1%); these values were all significantly greater than those of the endoscopy trainees and experts. In analysis of narrow-band images, EndoBRAIN distinguished neoplastic from non-neoplastic lesions with 96.9% sensitivity (95% CI, 95.8-97.8), 94.3% specificity (95% CI, 92.3-95.9), 96.0% accuracy (95% CI, 95.1-96.8), a 96.9% positive-predictive value, (95% CI, 95.8-97.8), and a 94.3% negative-predictive value (95% CI, 92.3-95.9); these values were all significantly higher than those of the endoscopy trainees, sensitivity and negative-predictive value were significantly higher but the other values are comparable to those of the experts. CONCLUSIONS: EndoBRAIN accurately differentiated neoplastic from non-neoplastic lesions in stained endocytoscopic images and endocytoscopic narrow-band images, when pathology findings were used as the standard. This technology has been authorized for clinical use by the Japanese regulatory agency and should be used in endoscopic evaluation of small polyps more widespread clinical settings. UMIN clinical trial no: UMIN000028843.

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With recent breakthroughs in artificial intelligence, computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) for upper gastrointestinal endoscopy is gaining increasing attention. Main research focuses in this field include automated identification of dysplasia in Barrett's esophagus and detection of early gastric cancers. By helping endoscopists avoid missing and mischaracterizing neoplastic change in both the esophagus and the stomach, these technologies potentially contribute to solving current limitations of gastroscopy. Currently, optical diagnosis of early-stage dysplasia related to Barrett's esophagus can be precisely achieved only by endoscopists proficient in advanced endoscopic imaging, and the false-negative rate for detecting gastric cancer is approximately 10%. Ideally, these novel technologies should work during real-time gastroscopy to provide on-site decision support for endoscopists regardless of their skill; however, previous studies of these topics remain ex vivo and experimental in design. Therefore, the feasibility, effectiveness, and safety of CAD for upper gastrointestinal endoscopy in clinical practice remain unknown, although a considerable number of pilot studies have been conducted by both engineers and medical doctors with excellent results. This review summarizes current publications relating to CAD for upper gastrointestinal endoscopy from the perspective of endoscopists and aims to indicate what is required for future research and implementation in clinical practice.

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BACKGROUND AND AIM: Application of artificial intelligence in medicine is now attracting substantial attention. In the field of gastrointestinal endoscopy, computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) for colonoscopy is the most investigated area, although it is still in the preclinical phase. Because colonoscopy is carried out by humans, it is inherently an imperfect procedure. CAD assistance is expected to improve its quality regarding automated polyp detection and characterization (i.e. predicting the polyp's pathology). It could help prevent endoscopists from missing polyps as well as provide a precise optical diagnosis for those detected. Ultimately, these functions that CAD provides could produce a higher adenoma detection rate and reduce the cost of polypectomy for hyperplastic polyps. METHODS AND RESULTS: Currently, research on automated polyp detection has been limited to experimental assessments using an algorithm based on ex vivo videos or static images. Performance for clinical use was reported to have >90% sensitivity with acceptable specificity. In contrast, research on automated polyp characterization seems to surpass that for polyp detection. Prospective studies of in vivo use of artificial intelligence technologies have been reported by several groups, some of which showed a >90% negative predictive value for differentiating diminutive (≤5 mm) rectosigmoid adenomas, which exceeded the threshold for optical biopsy. CONCLUSION: We introduce the potential of using CAD for colonoscopy and describe the most recent conditions for regulatory approval for artificial intelligence-assisted medical devices.

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