Abstract
This study aimed to develop a method for detection of femoral neck fracture (FNF) including displaced and non-displaced fractures using convolutional neural network (CNN) with plain X-ray and to validate its use across hospitals through internal and external validation sets. This is a retrospective study using hip and pelvic anteroposterior films for training and detecting femoral neck fracture through residual neural network (ResNet) 18 with convolutional block attention module (CBAM) + + . The study was performed at two tertiary hospitals between February and May 2020 and used data from January 2005 to December 2018. Our primary outcome was favorable performance for diagnosis of femoral neck fracture from negative studies in our dataset. We described the outcomes as area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC), accuracy, Youden index, sensitivity, and specificity. A total of 4,189 images that contained 1,109 positive images (332 non-displaced and 777 displaced) and 3,080 negative images were collected from two hospitals. The test values after training with one hospital dataset were 0.999 AUC, 0.986 accuracy, 0.960 Youden index, and 0.966 sensitivity, and 0.993 specificity. Values of external validation with the other hospital dataset were 0.977, 0.971, 0.920, 0.939, and 0.982, respectively. Values of merged hospital datasets were 0.987, 0.983, 0.960, 0.973, and 0.987, respectively. A CNN algorithm for FNF detection in both displaced and non-displaced fractures using plain X-rays could be used in other hospitals to screen for FNF after training with images from the hospital of interest.
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Abbreviations
- FNF:
-
Femoral neck fracture
- CNN:
-
Convolution neural network
- ResNet:
-
Residual neural network
- CBAM:
-
Convolutional block attention module
- AUC:
-
Area under the receiver operating characteristic curve
- CT:
-
Computed tomography
- MRI:
-
Magnetic resonance imaging
- AP:
-
Anteroposterior
- ICD code:
-
International Classification of Diseases code
- PACS:
-
Picture archiving and communication system
- ROC curve:
-
Receiver operating characteristic curve
- Grad-CAM:
-
Gradient-weighted Class Activation Mapping
- IQR:
-
Interquartile ranges
- SD:
-
Standard deviation
- CI:
-
Confidence interval
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This study was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (2019R1F1A1063502). This work was also supported by the research fund of Hanyang University (HY-2018) and the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korea government (MSIT) (NRF2019R1A4A1029800).
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Oh J and Kim TH conceived the study and designed the trial. Oh J, Bae J, Ahn C, Byun H, Chung JH, and Lee D supervised the trial conduct and were involved in data collection. Yu S, Kim T, and Yoon M analyzed all images and data. Bae J, Yu S, Oh J and Kim TH drafted the manuscript, and all authors substantially contributed to its revision. Oh J and Kim TH take the responsibility for the content of the paper.
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Bae, J., Yu, S., Oh, J. et al. External Validation of Deep Learning Algorithm for Detecting and Visualizing Femoral Neck Fracture Including Displaced and Non-displaced Fracture on Plain X-ray. J Digit Imaging 34, 1099–1109 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10278-021-00499-2
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