Applications of Machine Learning to Medical Informatics
Daniela S. Raicu, PhDAssistant Professor
Email: [email protected] URL: http://facweb.cs.depaul.edu/research/vc/
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Intelligent Multimedia Processing & Medical Imaging Labs
• Faculty: – GM. Besana, L. Dettori, J. Furst, G.
Gordon, S. Jost, D. Raicu
• CTI Students: – J. Cisneros, M. Doran, W. Horsthemke, B.
Malinga, R. Susomboon, E. Varutbangkul, S.G. Valencia, J. Zhang
• NSF REU Students (2006): – A. Bashir, T. Disney, S. Greenblum, J.
Hasemann, M.O. Krucoff, M. Lam, M. Pham, A. Rogers, S. Talbot
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Intelligent Multimedia Processing & Medical Imaging Labs
• IMP Collaborators & Funding Agencies– National Science Foundation (NSF) - Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU)
– Northwestern University - Department of Radiology, Imaging Informatics Section– University of Chicago – Medical Physics Department
– Argonne National Laboratory - Biochip Technology Center
– DePaul University, College of Law
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Outline
Part I: Introduction to Medical Informatics Medical Informatics Medical Imaging Imaging Modalities Basic Concepts in Image Processing
Part II: Current Research Problems in Medical Informatics Segmentation of soft tissues Classification of pure patches Visualization of pure patches Content-based Image Retrieval and Annotation Image Content-Driven Ontology for Chest interpretation
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What is Medical Informatics?
Simplistic definition: Medical informatics is the application of computers, communications and information technology and systems to all fields of medicine - medical care, medical
education and medical research.
MF Collen, MEDINFO '80, Tokyo
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What is Medical Informatics?
Medical Informatics is the branch of science concerned with the use of computers and communication technology to acquire, store, analyze, communicate, and display medical information and knowledge to facilitate understanding and improve the accuracy, timeliness, and reliability of decision-making.
Warner, Sorenson and Bouhaddou, Knowledge Engineering in Health Informatics, 1997
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Subdomains of Medical Informatics (by Wikipedia)
• imaging informatics• clinical informatics• nursing informatics• Consumer health informatics• public health informatics• dental informatics• clinical research informatics• bioinformatics• pharmacy informatics
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Understanding Visual Information: Technical, Cognitive and Social Factors
The study of medical imaging is concerned with theinteraction of all forms of radiation with tissue andthe development of appropriate technology to extract clinically useful information (usually displayed in an image format) from observation of this technology.
What is Medical Imaging?
• Structural/anatomical information (CT, MRI, US) - within each elemental volume, tissue-differentiating properties are measured.
• Information about function (PET, SPECT, fMRI).
Sources of Images:
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Examples of Medical Images
X-ray Image of the hand
Computed Tomography (CT) Image of plane throughliver and stomach
Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) of the brain
Ultrasound image of a woman’s abdomenSingle Photon Computed Tomography of the heartFluorescence Microscopy: Image of living tissue culture cells.
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What is a Medical Image?
pixel
slice thickness
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DICOM standard in Medical Imaging
DICOM: "Digital Imaging and Communication in Medicine”
The DICOM Standard allows to get pixel data for each produced image and to associate specific information to them:
name of the patient, type of examination, hospital, date of examination, type of acquisition etc...
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DICOM Header:
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Computer Aided Diagnosis
• Computed Aided Diagnosis (CAD) is diagnosis made by a
radiologist when the output of computerized image analysis methods
has been incorporated into his or her medical decision-making
process.
• CAD may be interpreted broadly to incorporate both • the detection of the abnormality task and • the classification task: likelihood that the abnormality
represents a malignancy
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Motivation for CAD systems
The amount of image data acquired during a CT scan is
becoming overwhelming for human vision and the overload of
image data for interpretation may result in oversight errors.
Computed Aided Diagnosis for:
• Breast Cancer
• Lung Cancer
– A thoracic CT scan generates about 240 section images for
radiologists to interpret.
• Colon Cancer
– CT colonography (virtual colonoscopy) is being examined as a
potential screening device (400-700 images)
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CAD for Breast Cancer
A mammogram is an X-ray of breast tissue used as a screening tool searching for cancer when there are no symptoms of anything being wrong. A mammogram detects lumps, changes in breast tissue or calcifications when they're too small to be found in a physical exam.
• Abnormal tissue shows up a dense white on mammograms.
• The left scan shows a normal breast while the right one shows malignant calcifications.
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CAD for Lung Cancer
• Identification of lung nodules in thoracic CT scan; the identification is
complicated by the blood vessels
• Once a nodule has been detected, it may be quantitatively analyzed as
follows:
• The classification of the nodule as benign or malignant
• The evaluation of the temporal size in the nodule size.
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CAD for Colon Cancer
• Virtual colonoscopy (CT colonography) is a minimally invasive imaging technique that combines volumetrically acquired helical CT data with advanced graphical software to create two and three-dimensional views of the colon.
Three-dimensional endoluminal view of the colon showing the appearance of normal haustral folds and a small rounded polyp.
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Role of Image Analysis & Machine Learning for CAD
• An overall scheme for computed aided diagnosis systems
Organ Segmentation
Lesion / Abnormality
Segmentation
Classification
Feature Extraction
- Breast Boundary- Lungs- Colon
Evaluation & Interpretation
- Nodule- Polyps
- Texture- Shape- Geometrical properties
- Malignant- Benign
- Breast Images- Thoracic Images
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A. Pixel-level Classification: - tissue segmentation - context-sensitive tools for radiology reporting
Texture Classification of Tissues in CT Chest/Abdomen
Pixel Level Texture Extraction
Pixel Level Classification Organ Segmentation
1 2, , kd d d _tissue label
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Pixel-level Texture Extraction
• Consider texture around the pixel of interest.
• Capture texture characteristic based on
estimation of joint conditional probability
of pixel pair occurrences Pij(d,θ).
– Pij denotes the normalized co-occurrence matrix of specify by displacement vector (d) and angle (θ).
Neighborhood of a pixel
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Haralick Texture Features
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Haralick Texture Features
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Examples of Texture Images
Texture images: original image, energy and cluster tendency, respectively.M. Kalinin, D. S. Raicu, J. D. Furst, D. S. Channin,, " A Classification Approach for Anatomical Regions Segmentation", The IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Genoa, Italy, September 11-14, 2005.
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Texture Classification of Tissues in CT Chest/Abdomen
Example of Liver Segmentation: (J.D. Furst, R. Susomboon, and D.S. Raicu, "Single Organ Segmentation Filters for Multiple Organ Segmentation", IEEE 2006 International Conference of the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS'06))
Region growing at 70% Region growing at 60% Segmentation Result
Original Image Initial Seed at 90% Split & Merge at 85% Split & Merge at 80%
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Texture Classification of Tissues in CT Chest/Abdomen
Patch Samples Ground truth: tissue names
liver
liver
kidney
fat
muscle
trabecular bone
… …
B. Patch-level Classification: - creation of an electronic handbook of normal tissues in CT scans including visual and quantitative samples, and tools to annotate, browse and retrieve samples.
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Texture Classification of Tissues in CT Chest/Abdomen
B. Patch-level Classification (cont.):
Texture quantification
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Texture Classification of Tissues in CT Chest/Abdomen
B. Patch-level Classification (cont.):
Supervised learning (classification) of the mappings between texture features and type of pure patch
IF F13<.2 and F16>.8 THEN LIVER (p=.95)
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Evaluation & Interpretation
• Sensitivity: the ratio between true positives and total positives
• Specificity: the ratio between true negatives and total negatives
• Receiver Operator Characteristic (ROC)
A true positive is an abnormality classified as malignant when it is actually malignant.
A true negative is an abnormality classified as benign when it is actually benign.
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Evaluation & Interpretation• Receiver Operator Characteristic (ROC) curves for distinction between benign and malignant nodules on
high-resolution CT.
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Organ -, patch -, and pixel - level classification of spinal cord, liver, heart, kidneys and spleen using decision trees:
Texture Classification of Tissues in CT Chest/Abdomen
Organ Level Pure Patch Level Pixel-level (9 x 9) Pixel level (13 x 13)
Organ Sensitivity Specificity Sensitivity Specificity Sensitivity Specificity Sensitivity Specificity
Backbone (44) 100.0% 97.6% 97.7% 99.3% 100.0% 96.3% 100.0% 99.2%
Liver (259) 73.8% 95.9% 91.9% 97.9% 100.0% 99.0% 100.0% 98.4%
Heart (77) 73.6% 97.2% 79.2% 98.3% 81.1% 99.5% 66.7% 100.0%
Kidney (225) 86.2% 97.8% 91.6% 97.1% 78.9% 98.0% 96.6% 93.0%
Spleen (98) 70.5% 95.1% 65.3% 98.5% 94.4% 95.5% 100.0% 97.6%
• D. Xu, J. Lee, D.S. Raicu, J.D. Furst, D. Channin. "Texture Classification of Normal Tissues in Computed Tomography", The 2005 Annual Meeting of the Society for Computer Applications in Radiology, Florida.• D. Channin, D. S. Raicu, J. D. Furst, D. H. Xu, L. Lilly, C. Limpsangsri, "Classification of Tissues in Computed Tomography using Decision Trees", Poster and Demo, The 90th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of Radiology Society of North America (RSNA04), Chicago, 2004.
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CT images
Patient demographics &
Radiologist Annotations
Image & Textual Feature
Extraction
Low-level features: texture
High-level features:
diagnosis, tissue labels
Classification & Association Techniques
Interpretation & evaluation: sensitivity, specificity
Classification, Segmentation &
Annotation
Texture Classification of Tissues in CT Chest/Abdomen
Diagram of a Classification System
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(a) Optimal selection of an adequate set of textural features is a challenge, especially with the limited data we often have to deal with in clinical problems. Consequently, the effectiveness of any classification system will always be conditional on two things:
(i) how well the selected features describe the tissues
(ii) how well the study group reflects the overall target patient population for the corresponding diagnosis
Classification models: challenges
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(b) how other type of information can be incorporated into the classification models:
- metadata
- image features from other imaging modalities (need of image fusion)
(c) how stable and general the classification models are
Classification models: challenges
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Definition of Content-based Image Retrieval:Content-based image retrieval is a technique for retrieving images on the basis of automatically derived image features such as texture and shape.
Content-based medical image retrieval (CBMS) systems
Applications of Content-based Image Retrieval:• Teaching• Research• Diagnosis• PACS and Electronic Patient Records
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Feature Extraction
Similarity Retrieval
Image Features
[D1, D2,…Dn]Image Database
Query Image
Query Results
Feedback Algorithm
User Evaluation
Diagram of a CBIR
http://viper.unige.ch/~muellerh/demoCLEFmed/index.php
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An image retrieval system can help when the diagnosis depends strongly on direct visual properties of images in the context of evidence-based medicine or case-based reasoning.
CBIR as a Diagnosis Aid
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An image retrieval system will allow students/teachers to browse available data themselves in an easy and straightforward fashion by clicking on “show me similar images”. Advantages:
- stimulate self-learning and a comparison of similar cases- find optimal cases for teaching
Teaching files: • Casimage: http://www.casimage.com• myPACS: http://www.mypacs.net
CBIR as a Teaching Tool
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CBIR as a Research Tool
Image retrieval systems can be used:• to complement text-based retrieval methods• for visual knowledge management whereby the images and associated textual data can be analyzed together
• multimedia data mining can be applied to learn the unknown links between visual features and diagnosis or other patient information
• for quality control to find images that might have been misclassified
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CBIR as a tool for lookup and reference in CT chest/abdomen
• Case Study: lung nodules retrieval– Lung Imaging Database Resource for Imaging Research
http://imaging.cancer.gov/programsandresources/InformationSystems/LIDC/page7
– 29 cases, 5,756 DICOM images/slices, 1,143 nodule images – 4 radiologists annotated the images using 9 nodule
characteristics: calcification, internal structure, lobulation, malignancy, margin, sphericity, spiculation, subtlety, and texture
• Goals:– Retrieve nodules based on image features:
• Texture, Shape, and Size
– Find the correlations between the image features and the radiologists’ annotations
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CBIR as a tool for lung nodule lookup and reference
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Choose a nodule
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Choose an image feature& a similarity measure
M. Lam, T. Disney, M. Pham, D. Raicu, J. Furst, “Content-Based Image Retrieval for Pulmonary Computed Tomography Nodule Images”, SPIE Medical Imaging Conference, San Diego, CA, February 2007
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CBIR systems: challenges
•Type of features• image features:
- texture features: statistical, structural, model and filter-based
- shape features• textual features (such as physician annotations)
• Similarity measures-point-based and distribution based metrics
• Retrieval performance:• precision and recall• clinical evaluation
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Image features and physician annotations correlations
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Malignancy regression model
Calcification
Lobulation
InternalStructure
Malignancy
Margin
Spiculation
Sphericity
Texture
Subtlety
Characteristics
Regression Coefficients p-value
F-value = 963.560p-value = 0.000
(Constant) 5.377275 1.64E-54gabormean_1_2 -0.02069 7.80E-07MinIntensityBG 0.003819 3.30E-82Energy -28.5314 3.31E-12gabormean_0_1 -0.00315 5.80E-14IntesityDifference 0.000272 0.003609inverseVariance 6.317133 3.41E-05gabormean_1_1 0.009743 0.000259gabormean_2_1 -0.00667 5.79E-05Correlation -0.39183 5.67E-05clusterTendency 5.16E-06 0.000131ConvexPerimeter -0.00291 0.023032
Estimated Malignancy = 5.377275 - 0.02069 gabormean_1_2 + 0.003819 MinIntensityBG - 28.5314 energy - 0.00315 gabormean_0_1 + 0.000272 IntesityDifference + 6.317133 inverseVariance + 0.009743 gabormean_1_1 - 0.00667 gabormean_2_1 - 0.39183 correlation + 5.16E-06 clusterTendency - 0.00291 ConvexPerimeter
Adj_R2 = 0.990
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Multiple Regression Models
Characteristics Entire dataset(1106)
At least 2 radiologists agreed
At least 3 radiologists agreed
Calcification 0.397 0.578 (884) 0.645 (644)
Internal Structure 0.417 - (855) - (659)
Lobulation 0.282 0.559 (448) 0.877 (137)
Malignancy 0.310 0.641 (489) 0.990 (107)
Margin 0.403 0.376 (519) - (245)
Sphericity 0.239 0.481 (575) 0.682 (207)
Spiculation 0.320 0.563 (621) 0.840 (228)
Subtlety 0.301 0.282 (659) 0.491 (360)
Texture 0.181 0.473 (736) 0.843 (437)
E. Varutbangkul, J. G. Cisneros, D. S. Raicu, J. D. Furst, D. S. Channin, S. G. Armato III, "Semantics and Image Content Integration for Pulmonary Nodule Interpretation in Thoracic Computed Tomography", SPIE Medical Imaging Conference, San Diego, CA, February 2007
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Image-Driven Ontologies for CT chest interpretation
Texture definition:Nodule internal texture, e.g., nonsolid, part solid, or solid texture
Margin definition:How well defined the margin of the nodule is (poorly or sharp)
Circularity definition:division of ‘area of the nodule’ by ‘area of a circle with the same convex perimeter of the nodule’
Solidity definition:The proportion of the pixels in the convex hull that are also in the region (Area/ConvexArea)
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Image-based Ontology: challenges
• Identify type of features and their values for certain physician annotations
Example: What is the “Gaborness” image representation for a particular annotation?
• Build a CT- RADS visual atlas to standardize chest reporting
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Ideal CAD Workstation?
It will have the human abilities • to transfer acquired knowledge to new tasks, • to adapt to the diagnostic problem, • to choose image features that are relevant to the clinical task and
to analyze the image• to offer diagnostic suggestions, and, finally, • to justify the suggestions on the basis of available reference data.
That CAD system will be a true partner to the diagnostic radiologist.
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uestions ?