Automatic wound infection interpretation for postoperative wound image

Jui-Tse Hsu; Te-Wei Ho; Hsueh-Fu Shih; Chun-Che Chang; Feipei Lai; Jin-Ming Wu

doi:10.1117/12.2266110

8 February 2017 Automatic wound infection interpretation for postoperative wound image

Jui-Tse Hsu, Te-Wei Ho, Hsueh-Fu Shih, Chun-Che Chang, Feipei Lai, Jin-Ming Wu

Proceedings Volume 10225, Eighth International Conference on Graphic and Image Processing (ICGIP 2016); 1022526 (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2266110
Event: Eighth International Conference on Graphic and Image Processing, 2016, Tokyo, Japan

Abstract

With the growing demand for more efficient wound care after surgery, there is a necessity to develop a machine learning based image analysis approach to reduce the burden for health care professionals. The aim of this study was to propose a novel approach to recognize wound infection on the postsurgical site. Firstly, we proposed an optimal clustering method based on unimodal-rosin threshold algorithm to extract the feature points from a potential wound area into clusters for regions of interest (ROI). Each ROI was regarded as a suture site of the wound area. The automatic infection interpretation based on the support vector machine is available to assist physicians doing decision-making in clinical practice. According to clinical physicians’ judgment criteria and the international guidelines for wound infection interpretation, we defined infection detector modules as the following: (1) Swelling Detector, (2) Blood Region Detector, (3) Infected Detector, and (4) Tissue Necrosis Detector. To validate the capability of the proposed system, a retrospective study using the confirmation wound pictures that were used for diagnosis by surgical physicians as the gold standard was conducted to verify the classification models. Currently, through cross validation of 42 wound images, our classifiers achieved 95.23% accuracy, 93.33% sensitivity, 100% specificity, and 100% positive predictive value. We believe this ability could help medical practitioners in decision making in clinical practice.

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Jui-Tse Hsu, Te-Wei Ho, Hsueh-Fu Shih, Chun-Che Chang, Feipei Lai, and Jin-Ming Wu "Automatic wound infection interpretation for postoperative wound image", Proc. SPIE 10225, Eighth International Conference on Graphic and Image Processing (ICGIP 2016), 1022526 (8 February 2017); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2266110

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