TY - GEN
T1 - Automatic detection of pneumonia analyzing ultrasound digital images
AU - Barrientos, Ronald
AU - Roman-Gonzalez, Avid
AU - Barrientos, Franklin
AU - Solis, Leonardo
AU - Correa, Malena
AU - Pajuelo, Monica
AU - Anticona, Cynthia
AU - Lavarello, Roberto
AU - Castaneda, Benjamin
AU - Oberhelman, Richard
AU - Checkley, William
AU - Gilman, Robert H.
AU - Zimic, Mirko
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 IEEE.
PY - 2016/7/2
Y1 - 2016/7/2
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Pneumonia
KW - echography
KW - image processing
KW - remote diagnostics
KW - ultrasound
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85021415999&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/CONCAPAN.2016.7942375
DO - 10.1109/CONCAPAN.2016.7942375
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85021415999
T3 - 2016 IEEE 36th Central American and Panama Convention, CONCAPAN 2016
BT - 2016 IEEE 36th Central American and Panama Convention, CONCAPAN 2016
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 36th IEEE Central American and Panama Convention, CONCAPAN 2016
Y2 - 9 November 2016 through 11 November 2016
ER -