Bone suppression technique for multidirectional dynamic chest radiography: a virtual imaging trial

Futa Goshima; Rie Tanaka; William Paul Segars; Ehsan Abadi; Ehsan Samei

doi:10.1117/12.2654119

7 April 2023 Bone suppression technique for multidirectional dynamic chest radiography: a virtual imaging trial

Futa Goshima, Rie Tanaka, William Paul Segars, Ehsan Abadi, Ehsan Samei

Proceedings Volume 12463, Medical Imaging 2023: Physics of Medical Imaging; 124634S (2023) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2654119
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2023, San Diego, California, United States

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Prediction of pleural invasion in lung cancer is crucial in planning appropriate operating procedures and can be assessed using dynamic chest radiography (DCR). However, this assessment is negatively affected by rib shadows in conventional images. The purpose of this study was to develop a deep learning-based bone suppression technique for DCR in various projection directions. Twenty breathing XCAT phantoms with lung tumors and a pair of phantoms consisting only of bone structures were generated. The XCAT phantoms were virtually projected from six directions, resulting in 54000 multidirectional chest X-ray images and were used for training a pix2pix model to estimate bone images from original images. Bone suppression (BS) images were created by subtracting the bone images from the original images and then evaluated based on the peak signal to noise ratio (PSNR), structural similarity index measure (SSIM), and Fréchet Video Distance (FVD). Clinical cases were processed using the trained model as well. Furthermore, lung tumors on the original and BS images were tracked using OpenCV template matching, and the tracking accuracy was compared. The PSNR, SSIM, and FVD were 0.9966, 52.20 and 136.9, respectively. In the visual evaluation, we confirmed the effect of BS without temporal fluctuation of pixel values in both the resulting images of the XCAT phantom and real patients. Furthermore, precise tracking of the targeted tumor was achieved on the resulting BS images even in oblique directions, without any interruption from the rib shadows. These results indicate that our proposed method can effectively reduce bone shadows as well as temporal variations in the effect of bone suppression.

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Futa Goshima, Rie Tanaka, William Paul Segars, Ehsan Abadi, and Ehsan Samei "Bone suppression technique for multidirectional dynamic chest radiography: a virtual imaging trial", Proc. SPIE 12463, Medical Imaging 2023: Physics of Medical Imaging, 124634S (7 April 2023); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2654119

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