Presentation 2022-11-18
Extrapolation of partial X-ray image for prediction of whole body musculoskeletal structure
Weiqi Zhang, Yi Gu, Yoshito Otake, Soufi Mazen, Keisuke Uemura, Masaki Takao, Toshiaki Akashi, Kensaku Mori, Kento Aida, Nobuhiko Sugano, Yoshinobu Sato,
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Abstract(in English) Image defects and partial disorders are common problems in medical imaging. Image inpainting and extrapolation are helpful techniques to restore missing image information for many clinical applications, including analyzing organs or tissues that are not scanned during imaging processing. Many image restoration algorithms have been proposed for general images. However, numerous challenges still exist in restoring medical images, such as domain shifting and limited datasets. Conventional methods for medical image restoration only focused on recovering small regions within a given image, ignoring clinical demands for extrapolation. In this study, we proposed a method based on the transformer for restoring an X-ray image with large regions, which supports whole-body restoration from a partial region, using mutual conversion between an X-ray image and a digitally reconstructed radiograph. Our method combined an extrapolation network and a style transfer network, simultaneously achieving the inpainting and extrapolating of an X-ray image under a limited dataset. To the best of our knowledge, we are the first to achieve whole-body restoration from an X-ray image. We conducted 1) quantitative and qualitative experiments on the extrapolation and style transfer models and 2) bone mineral density (BMD) estimation experiments from extrapolated X-ray images generated by the proposed method. We used the predicted and ground-truth BMD correlation to evaluate our model's effectiveness, which achieved PCC of 0.374 and 0.534 in DXA-measured and QCT-measured BMD, respectively, demonstrating the high clinical potential of analyzing missing regions using the proposed method.
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Keyword(in English) Image Extrapolation / X-ray Image / Transformer / Bone Mineral Density (BMD) Estimation
Paper # MICT2022-38,MI2022-67
Date of Issue 2022-11-11 (MICT, MI)

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Committee MICT / MI
Conference Date 2022/11/18(1days)
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Place (in English) Nagoya Institute of Technology
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Topics (in English) Medical imaging technology, healthcare and medical information communication technology, etc.
Chair Hirokazu Tanaka(Hiroshima City Univ.) / Hidekata Hontani(Nagoya Inst. of Tech.)
Vice Chair Chika Sugimoto(Yokohama National Univ.) / Daisuke Anzai(Nagoya Inst. of Tech.) / Hideaki Haneishi(Chiba Univ.) / Takayuki Kitasaka(Aichi Inst. of Tech.)
Secretary Chika Sugimoto(Okayama Pref. Univ.) / Daisuke Anzai(KISTEC) / Hideaki Haneishi(Yamaguchi Univ.) / Takayuki Kitasaka(Univ. of Hyogo)
Assistant Takahiro Ito(Hiroshima City Univ) / Natsuki Nakayama(Nagoya Univ.) / Takuya Nishikawa(National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center Hospital) / Takeshi Hara(Gifu Univ.) / Yoshito Otake(NAIST)

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Registration To Technical Committee on Healthcare and Medical Information Communication Technology / Technical Committee on Medical Imaging
Language ENG-JTITLE
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Title (in English) Extrapolation of partial X-ray image for prediction of whole body musculoskeletal structure
Sub Title (in English)
Keyword(1) Image Extrapolation
Keyword(2) X-ray Image
Keyword(3) Transformer
Keyword(4) Bone Mineral Density (BMD) Estimation
1st Author's Name Weiqi Zhang
1st Author's Affiliation Nara Institute of Science and Technology(NAIST)
2nd Author's Name Yi Gu
2nd Author's Affiliation Nara Institute of Science and Technology(NAIST)
3rd Author's Name Yoshito Otake
3rd Author's Affiliation Nara Institute of Science and Technology(NAIST)
4th Author's Name Soufi Mazen
4th Author's Affiliation Nara Institute of Science and Technology(NAIST)
5th Author's Name Keisuke Uemura
5th Author's Affiliation Osaka University(Osaka Univ)
6th Author's Name Masaki Takao
6th Author's Affiliation Ehime University(Ehime Univ)
7th Author's Name Toshiaki Akashi
7th Author's Affiliation Juntendo University(Juntendo Univ)
8th Author's Name Kensaku Mori
8th Author's Affiliation Nagoya University/National Institute of Informatics(Nagoya Univ/NII)
9th Author's Name Kento Aida
9th Author's Affiliation National Institute of Informatics(NII)
10th Author's Name Nobuhiko Sugano
10th Author's Affiliation Osaka University(Osaka Univ)
11th Author's Name Yoshinobu Sato
11th Author's Affiliation Nara Institute of Science and Technology(NAIST)
Date 2022-11-18
Paper # MICT2022-38,MI2022-67
Volume (vol) vol.122
Number (no) MICT-264,MI-265
Page pp.pp.24-28(MICT), pp.24-28(MI),
#Pages 5
Date of Issue 2022-11-11 (MICT, MI)