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Identification of Cerebral Small Vessel Disease Using Multiple Instance Learning

  • Liang Chen
  • , Tong Tong
  • , Chin Pang Ho
  • , Rajiv Patel
  • , David Cohen
  • , Angela C. Dawson
  • , Omid Halse
  • , Olivia Geraghty
  • , Paul E.M. Rinne
  • , Christopher J. White
  • , Tagore Nakornchai
  • , Paul Bentley
  • , Daniel Rueckert

Research output: Chapters, Conference Papers, Creative and Literary WorksRGC 12 - Chapter in an edited book (Author)peer-review

Abstract

Cerebral small vessel disease (SVD) is a common cause of ageing-associated physical and cognitive impairment. Identifying SVD is important for both clinical and research purposes but is usually dependent on radiologists’ evaluation of brain scans. Computer tomography (CT) is the most widely used brain imaging technique but for SVD it shows a low signal-to-noise ratio, and consequently poor inter-rater reliability. We therefore propose a novel framework based on multiple instance learning (MIL) to distinguish between absent/mild SVD and moderate/severe SVD. Intensity patches are extracted from regions with high probability of containing lesions. These are then used as instances in MIL for the identification of SVD. A large baseline CT dataset, consisting of 590 CT scans, was used for evaluation. We achieved approximately 75% accuracy in classifying two different types of SVD, which is high for this challenging problem. Our results outperform those obtained by either standard machine learning methods or current clinical practice.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMedical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2015
Subtitle of host publication18th International Conference, Proceedings
EditorsNassir Navab, Joachim Hornegger, William M. Wells, Alejandro F. Frangi
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages523-530
ISBN (Electronic)978-3-319-24553-9
ISBN (Print)978-3-319-24552-2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2015
Externally publishedYes
Event18th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions (MICCAI 2015) - Munich, Germany
Duration: 5 Oct 20159 Oct 2015
https://www.miccai2015.org/frontend/index.php?sub=22

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume9349
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference18th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions (MICCAI 2015)
Abbreviated titleMICCAI 2015
PlaceGermany
CityMunich
Period5/10/159/10/15
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