Presentation 2018-05-18
Electronic Cleansing for CT Colonography using Deep Learning
Rie Tachibana, Janne J. Nappi, Toru Hironaka, Hiroyuki Yoshida,
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Abstract(in English) Although colonoscopy is considered as a standard procedure for colon cancer screening, CT colonography (CTC) has recently been widely accepted as an alternative to colonoscopy. Currently, however, CTC requires pre-examination cathartic bowel cleansing, which is a well-known barrier of patient adherence to colorectal cancer screening. In this study, we developed an electronic cleansing scheme based on deep learning for virtually removing residual feces and fluid tagged by an orally administered contrast agent in CTC images. In our scheme, a deep convolutional neural network was used to generate multi-material labeled images from cut-plane images extracted at multiple angles at each voxel of a CTC volume. Electronically cleansed CTC images are generated from the multi-material labeled images by keeping only the materials labeled as soft tissue and removing all of the other materials including tagged fecal materials. Preliminary results showed that our deep-learning based method was able to classify voxels of the CTC volumes to multi-material classes with high accuracy when increased number of angled cut-plane images are used, and thus, our scheme was able to accurately remove residual fecal materials from the CTC images.
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Keyword(in English) CT colonography / Electronic cleansing / Deep learning
Paper # SIP2018-8,IE2018-8,PRMU2018-8,MI2018-8
Date of Issue 2018-05-10 (SIP, IE, PRMU, MI)

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Committee PRMU / MI / IE / SIP
Conference Date 2018/5/17(2days)
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Chair Shinichi Sato(NII) / Kensaku Mori(Nagoya Univ.) / Takayuki Hamamoto(Tokyo Univ. of Science) / Masahiro Okuda(Univ. of Kitakyushu)
Vice Chair Hironobu Fujiyoshi(Chubu Univ.) / Yoshihisa Ijiri(Omron) / Yoshiki Kawata(Tokushima Univ.) / Yuichi Kimura(Kinki Univ.) / Kazuya Kodama(NII) / Hideaki Kimata(NTT) / Shogo Muramatsu(Niigata Univ.) / Naoyuki Aikawa(TUS)
Secretary Hironobu Fujiyoshi(AIST) / Yoshihisa Ijiri(NAIST) / Yoshiki Kawata(Aichi Inst. of Tech.) / Yuichi Kimura(Nagoya Inst. of Tech.) / Kazuya Kodama(Nagoya Univ.) / Hideaki Kimata(KDDI Research) / Shogo Muramatsu(Chiba Inst. of Tech.) / Naoyuki Aikawa(Takushoku Univ.)
Assistant Masato Ishii(NEC) / Yusuke Sugano(Osaka Univ.) / Ryo Haraguchi(Univ. of Hyogo) / Yasushi Hirano(Yamaguchi Univ.) / Yasutaka Matsuo(NHK) / Kazuya Hayase(NTT) / Masayoshi Nakamoto(Hiroshima Univ.ひろ)

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Registration To Technical Committee on Pattern Recognition and Media Understanding / Technical Committee on Medical Imaging / Technical Committee on Image Engineering / Technical Committee on Signal Processing
Language JPN
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Title (in English) Electronic Cleansing for CT Colonography using Deep Learning
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Keyword(1) CT colonography
Keyword(2) Electronic cleansing
Keyword(3) Deep learning
1st Author's Name Rie Tachibana
1st Author's Affiliation National Institute of Technology, Oshima College(NIT, Oshima College)
2nd Author's Name Janne J. Nappi
2nd Author's Affiliation Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School(MGH/HMS)
3rd Author's Name Toru Hironaka
3rd Author's Affiliation Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School(MGH/HMS)
4th Author's Name Hiroyuki Yoshida
4th Author's Affiliation Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School(MGH/HMS)
Date 2018-05-18
Paper # SIP2018-8,IE2018-8,PRMU2018-8,MI2018-8
Volume (vol) vol.118
Number (no) SIP-33,IE-34,PRMU-35,MI-36
Page pp.pp.35-37(SIP), pp.35-37(IE), pp.35-37(PRMU), pp.35-37(MI),
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Date of Issue 2018-05-10 (SIP, IE, PRMU, MI)