False positive reduction for wall thickness-based detection of colonic flat polyps via CT colonography

Marc Pomeroy; Lihong C. Li; Hao Han; Xinzhou Wei; Perry J. Pickhardt; Zhengrong Liang

doi:10.1117/12.2254565

3 March 2017 False positive reduction for wall thickness-based detection of colonic flat polyps via CT colonography

Marc Pomeroy, Lihong C. Li, Hao Han, Xinzhou Wei, Perry J. Pickhardt, Zhengrong Liang

Proceedings Volume 10134, Medical Imaging 2017: Computer-Aided Diagnosis; 1013434 (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2254565
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2017, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

Computer-aided detection (CAD) of flat polyps, in contrast to other polyp types, is challenging due to their lack of projections from the colonic surface and limited geometrical features that can be extracted from such polyps. In this paper, we present a new approach for CAD of flat polyps via colon wall thickness mapping, texture feature extraction and analysis. First, we integrated our previous work of detecting flat polyp candidates via colon wall thickness mapping into this study for automated detection of initial polyp candidates (IPCs). The colon wall segmentation is established on a coupled level-set method after the lumen is electronically cleansed by a sophisticated statistical algorithm, which considers the partial volume effect to preserve the mucosa layer details. The IPC detection was performed based on the wall thickness local pattern. From each IPC volume, we extracted the 14 Haralick texture features and 16 additional features that were previously demonstrated to improve polyp classification performance. Then, we adopted the Rpackage “randomForest” to classify the features for false positive (FP) reduction. We evaluated our method via 16 patient datasets. The proposed scheme achieved a high capacity in terms of the well-known area under the curve value of 0.930. The FPs was reduced to less than 3 FPs/per polyp. The experiment results demonstrate the feasibility of our method in achieving computer aided detection of flat polyps, therefore, improving the screening capability of computed tomography cololongraphy.

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Marc Pomeroy, Lihong C. Li, Hao Han, Xinzhou Wei, Perry J. Pickhardt, and Zhengrong Liang "False positive reduction for wall thickness-based detection of colonic flat polyps via CT colonography", Proc. SPIE 10134, Medical Imaging 2017: Computer-Aided Diagnosis, 1013434 (3 March 2017); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2254565

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Colon

Feature extraction

Computer aided design

Computer aided diagnosis and therapy

Image classification

Virtual colonoscopy

Colorectal cancer

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