Title
Automatic cystocele severity grading in transperineal ultrasound by random forest regression.
Abstract
Cystocele is a woman disease that bladder herniates into vagina. Women with cystocele may have problem in urinating and higher risk of bladder infection. The treatment of cystocele highly depends on the severity. The cystocele severity is usually evaluated with the manual transperineal ultrasound measurement for the maximal distance between the bladder and the lower tip of symphysis pubis in the Valsalva maneuver. To improve the efficiency of the measurement, we propose a fully automatic scheme that can measure the distance between the two anatomic structures in each ultrasound image. The whole measurement scheme is realized with a two-phase random forest regression to infer the locations of the two structures in the images for the support of distance measurement. The experimental results suggest automatic distance measurements and the final grading by our random forest regression method are comparable to the measurements and grading scores from three medical doctors, and thus corroborate the efficacy of our method.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1016/j.patcog.2016.09.033
Pattern Recognition
Keywords
Field
DocType
Cystocele grading,Symphysis pubis detection,Bladder boundary segmentation,Auto-context,Regression forest
Distance measurement,Symphysis,Pattern recognition,Grading (education),Regression analysis,Artificial intelligence,Radiology,Random forest,Valsalva maneuver,Mathematics,Ultrasound image,Ultrasound
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
63
1
0031-3203
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.36
12
Authors
10
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Dong Ni113720.07
Xing Ji2203.30
Min Wu3112.20
Wenlei Wang420.36
Xiaoshuang Deng520.36
Zhongyi Hu6207.37
Tianfu Wang738255.46
Dinggang Shen87837611.27
Jie-Zhi Cheng910213.00
Huifang Wang1020.36