Convolutional Neural Network to Classify Infrared Thermal Images of Fractured Wrists in Pediatrics

SHOBAYO, Olamilekan, SAATCHI, Reza and RAMLAKHAN, Shammi (2024). Convolutional Neural Network to Classify Infrared Thermal Images of Fractured Wrists in Pediatrics. Healthcare, 12 (10): 994.

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Abstract

Convolutional neural network (CNN) models were devised and evaluated to classify infrared thermal (IRT) images of pediatric wrist fractures. The images were recorded from 19 participants with a wrist fracture and 21 without a fracture (sprain). The injury diagnosis was by X-ray radiography. For each participant, 299 IRT images of their wrists were recorded. These generated 11,960 images (40 participants × 299 images). For each image, the wrist region of interest (ROI) was selected and fast Fourier transformed (FFT) to obtain a magnitude frequency spectrum. The spectrum was resized to 100 × 100 pixels from its center as this region represented the main frequency components. Image augmentations of rotation, translation and shearing were applied to the 11,960 magnitude frequency spectra to assist with the CNN generalization during training. The CNN had 34 layers associated with convolution, batch normalization, rectified linear unit, maximum pooling and SoftMax and classification. The ratio of images for the training and test was 70:30, respectively. The effects of augmentation and dropout on CNN performance were explored. Wrist fracture identification sensitivity and accuracy of 88% and 76%, respectively, were achieved. The CNN model was able to identify wrist fractures; however, a larger sample size would improve accuracy.

Item Type:	Article
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare12100994
SWORD Depositor:	Symplectic Elements
Depositing User:	Symplectic Elements
Date Deposited:	14 May 2024 08:45
Last Modified:	14 May 2024 08:45
URI:	https://shura.shu.ac.uk/id/eprint/33709

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