Per-Pixel Lung Thickness and Lung Capacity Estimation on Chest X-Rays using Convolutional Neural Networks

10/24/2021
by   Manuel Schultheiss, et al.
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Estimating the lung depth on x-ray images could provide both an accurate opportunistic lung volume estimation during clinical routine and improve image contrast in modern structural chest imaging techniques like x-ray dark-field imaging. We present a method based on a convolutional neural network that allows a per-pixel lung thickness estimation and subsequent total lung capacity estimation. The network was trained and validated using 5250 simulated radiographs generated from 525 real CT scans. Furthermore, we are able to infer the model trained with simulation data on real radiographs. For 35 patients, quantitative and qualitative evaluation was performed on standard clinical radiographs. The ground-truth for each patient's total lung volume was defined based on the patients' corresponding CT scan. The mean-absolute error between the estimated lung volume on the 35 real radiographs and groundtruth volume was 0.73 liter. Additionally, we predicted the lung thicknesses on a synthetic dataset of 131 radiographs, where the mean-absolute error was 0.27 liter. The results show, that it is possible to transfer the knowledge obtained in a simulation model to real x-ray images.

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