Paper Info
Title
Combining Visual Analytics And Case-Based Reasoning For Rupture Risk Assessment Of Intracranial Aneurysms
Abstract
Purpose Medical case-based reasoning solves problems by applying experience gained from the outcome of previous treatments of the same kind. Particularly for complex treatment decisions, for example, incidentally found intracranial aneurysms (IAs), it can support the medical expert. IAs bear the risk of rupture and may lead to subarachnoidal hemorrhages. Treatment needs to be considered carefully, since it may entail unnecessary complications for IAs with low rupture risk. With a rupture risk prediction based on previous cases, the treatment decision can be supported. Methods We present an interactive visual exploration tool for the case-based reasoning of IAs. In presence of a new aneurysm of interest, our application provides visual analytics techniques to identify the most similar cases with respect to morphology. The clinical expert can obtain the treatment, including the treatment outcome, for these cases and transfer it to the aneurysm of interest. Our application comprises a heatmap visualization, an adapted scatterplot matrix and fully or partially directed graphs with a circle- or force-directed layout to guide the interactive selection process. To fit the demands of clinical applications, we further integrated an interactive identification of outlier cases as well as an interactive attribute selection for the similarity calculation. A questionnaire evaluation with six trained physicians was used. Result Our application allows for case-based reasoning of IAs based on a reference data set. Three classifiers summarize the rupture state of the most similar cases. Medical experts positively evaluated the application. Conclusion Our case-based reasoning application combined with visual analytic techniques allows for representation of similar IAs to support the clinician. The graphical representation was rated very useful and provides visual information of the similarity of thekmost similar cases.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1007/s11548-020-02217-9
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOLOGY AND SURGERY
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Visual analytics, Case-based reasoning, Intracranial aneurysms, Rupture risk assessment
Journal
15
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
9
1861-6410
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Lena Spitz100.34
Uli Niemann2409.26
O. Beuing312215.70
Belal Neyazi402.37
I Erol Sandalcioglu500.68
Bernhard Preim61766235.86
Sylvia Saalfeld701.35