Paper Info
Title
Otitis media vocabulary and grammar
Abstract
We propose an automated algorithm for classifying diagnostic categories of otitis media (middle ear inflammation); acute otitis media, otitis media with effusion and no effusion. Acute otitis media represents a bacterial superinfection of the middle ear fluid and otitis media with effusion a sterile effusion that tends to subside spontaneously. Diagnosing children with acute otitis media is hard, leading to overprescription of antibiotics that are beneficial only for children with acute otitis media, prompting a need for an accurate and automated algorithm. To that end, we design a feature set understood by both otoscopists and engineers based on the actual visual cues used by otoscopists; we term this otitis media vocabulary. We also design a process to combine the vocabulary terms based on the decision process used by otoscopists; we term this otitis media grammar. The algorithm achieves 84% classification accuracy, in the range or outperforming clinicians who did not receive special training, as well as state-of-the-art classifiers.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1109/ICIP.2012.6467492
Image Processing
Keywords
DocType
Volume
diseases,ear,image classification,medical image processing,microorganisms,paediatrics,set theory,acute otitis media,antibiotics overprescription,bacterial superinfection,children diagnosis,decision process,feature set,middle-ear fluid,middle-ear inflammation,otitis media diagnostic category classification accuracy,otitis media grammar,otitis media vocabulary,otitis media-with-effusion,otitis media-with-no-effusion,sterile effusion,visual cues,vocabulary terms,classification,grammar,otitis media,vocabulary
Conference
2012
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1522-4880 E-ISBN : 978-1-4673-2532-5
978-1-4673-2532-5
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.40
5
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Anupama Kuruvilla181.35
Jian Li241.78
Pablo Hennings Yeomans380.94
Pedro Quelhas426121.51
Nader Shaikh581.69
Alejandro Hoberman681.69
Jelena Kovacevic780295.87