Automatic detection of pneumonia analyzing ultrasound digital images

Ronald Barrientos; Avid Roman-Gonzalez; Franklin Barrientos; Leonardo Solis; Malena Correa; Monica Pajuelo; Cynthia Anticona; Roberto Lavarello; Benjamin Castaneda; Richard Oberhelman; William Checkley; Robert H. Gilman; Mirko Zimic

doi:10.1109/CONCAPAN.2016.7942375

Automatic detection of pneumonia analyzing ultrasound digital images

Ronald Barrientos
, Avid Roman-Gonzalez
, Franklin Barrientos
, Leonardo Solis
, Malena Correa
, Monica Pajuelo
, Cynthia Anticona
, Roberto Lavarello
, Benjamin Castaneda
, Richard Oberhelman
, William Checkley
, Robert H. Gilman
, Mirko Zimic

School of Science and Engineering

Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
Johns Hopkins University

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Abstract

Pneumonia is one of the major causes of child mortality. Unfortunately, in developing countries there is a lack of infrastructure and medical experts in rural areas to provide the required diagnostics opportunely. Lung ultrasound echography has proved to be an important tool to detect lung consolidates as evidence of pneumonia. This paper presents a method for automatic diagnostics of pneumonia using ultrasound imaging of the lungs. The approach presented here is based on the analysis of patterns present in rectangular segments from the ultrasound digital images. Specific features from the characteristic vectors were obtained and classified with standard neural networks. A training and testing set of positive and negative vectors were compiled. Vectors obtained from a single patient were included only in the testing or in the training set, but never in both. Our approach was able to correctly classify vectors with evidence of pneumonia, with 91.5% sensitivity and 100% specificity.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2016 IEEE 36th Central American and Panama Convention, CONCAPAN 2016
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)	9781467395786
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/CONCAPAN.2016.7942375
State	Published - 2 Jul 2016
Event	36th IEEE Central American and Panama Convention, CONCAPAN 2016 - San Jose, Costa Rica Duration: 9 Nov 2016 → 11 Nov 2016

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Name	2016 IEEE 36th Central American and Panama Convention, CONCAPAN 2016

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Conference	36th IEEE Central American and Panama Convention, CONCAPAN 2016
Country/Territory	Costa Rica
City	San Jose
Period	9/11/16 → 11/11/16

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This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being

Keywords

Pneumonia
echography
image processing
remote diagnostics
ultrasound

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Barrientos, R., Roman-Gonzalez, A., Barrientos, F., Solis, L., Correa, M., Pajuelo, M., Anticona, C., Lavarello, R., Castaneda, B., Oberhelman, R., Checkley, W., Gilman, R. H., & Zimic, M. (2016). Automatic detection of pneumonia analyzing ultrasound digital images. In 2016 IEEE 36th Central American and Panama Convention, CONCAPAN 2016 Article 7942375 (2016 IEEE 36th Central American and Panama Convention, CONCAPAN 2016). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/CONCAPAN.2016.7942375

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2016 IEEE 36th Central American and Panama Convention, CONCAPAN 2016. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2016. 7942375 (2016 IEEE 36th Central American and Panama Convention, CONCAPAN 2016).

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Barrientos R, Roman-Gonzalez A, Barrientos F, Solis L, Correa M, Pajuelo M et al. Automatic detection of pneumonia analyzing ultrasound digital images. In 2016 IEEE 36th Central American and Panama Convention, CONCAPAN 2016. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. 2016. 7942375. (2016 IEEE 36th Central American and Panama Convention, CONCAPAN 2016). doi: 10.1109/CONCAPAN.2016.7942375

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