Fine-Grained Lesion Annotation in CT Images With Knowledge Mined From Radiology Reports

TitleFine-Grained Lesion Annotation in CT Images With Knowledge Mined From Radiology Reports
Publication TypeConference Proceedings
Year of Conference2019
AuthorsYan K, Peng Y, Lu Z, Summers RM
Conference NameIEEE 16th International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI 2019)
Pagination285-288
Date Published04/2019
PublisherIEEE
Conference Location Venice, Italy
ISBN Number978-1-5386-3641-1
Abstract

In radiologists' routine work, one major task is to read a medical image, e.g., a CT scan, find significant lesions, and write sentences in the radiology report to describe them. In this paper, we study the lesion description or annotation problem as an important step of computer-aided diagnosis (CAD). Given a lesion image, our aim is to predict multiple relevant labels, such as the lesion's body part, type, and attributes. To address this problem, we define a set of 145 labels based on RadLex to describe a large variety of lesions in the DeepLesion dataset. We directly mine training labels from the lesion's corresponding sentence in the radiology report, which requires minimal manual effort and is easily generalizable to large data and label sets. A multi-label convolutional neural network is then proposed for images with multi-scale structure and a noise-robust loss. Quantitative and qualitative experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of the framework. The average area under ROC curve on 1,872 test lesions is 0.9083.

DOI10.1109/ISBI.2019.8759336