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Early detection of hip periprosthetic joint infections through CNN on Computed Tomography images

Image and Video Processing 2024-10-11 v1

Abstract

Early detection of an infection prior to prosthesis removal (e.g., hips, knees or other areas) would provide significant benefits to patients. Currently, the detection task is carried out only retrospectively with a limited number of methods relying on biometric or other medical data. The automatic detection of a periprosthetic joint infection from tomography imaging is a task never addressed before. This study introduces a novel method for early detection of the hip prosthesis infections analyzing Computed Tomography images. The proposed solution is based on a novel ResNeSt Convolutional Neural Network architecture trained on samples from more than 100 patients. The solution showed exceptional performance in detecting infections with an experimental high level of accuracy and F-score.

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@article{arxiv.2304.08942,
  title  = {Early detection of hip periprosthetic joint infections through CNN on Computed Tomography images},
  author = {Francesco Guarnera and Alessia Rondinella and Oliver Giudice and Alessandro Ortis and Sebastiano Battiato and Francesco Rundo and Giorgio Fallica and Francesco Traina and Sabrina Conoci},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.08942},
  year   = {2024}
}