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

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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.

Idioma originalInglés
Título de la publicación alojada2016 IEEE 36th Central American and Panama Convention, CONCAPAN 2016
EditorialInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (versión digital)9781467395786
DOI
EstadoPublicada - 2 jul. 2016
Evento36th IEEE Central American and Panama Convention, CONCAPAN 2016 - San Jose, Costa Rica
Duración: 9 nov. 201611 nov. 2016

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Nombre2016 IEEE 36th Central American and Panama Convention, CONCAPAN 2016

Conferencia

Conferencia36th IEEE Central American and Panama Convention, CONCAPAN 2016
País/TerritorioCosta Rica
CiudadSan Jose
Período9/11/1611/11/16

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