Diagnostic Image Quality Assessment and Classification in Medical Imaging: Opportunities and Challenges

2019/12/05 by Ma, Jeffrey, Nakarmi, Ukash, Kin, Cedric Yue Sik +6
#Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #FOS: Electrical engineering #Image and Video Processing (eess.IV) #Machine Learning (cs.LG) #electronic engineering #information engineering

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1912.02907

Abstract

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) suffers from several artifacts, the most common of which are motion artifacts. These artifacts often yield images that are of non-diagnostic quality. To detect such artifacts, images are prospectively evaluated by experts for their diagnostic quality, which necessitates patient-revisits and rescans whenever non-diagnostic quality scans are encountered. This motivates the need to develop an automated framework capable of accessing medical image quality and detecting diagnostic and non-diagnostic images. In this paper, we explore several convolutional neural network-based frameworks for medical image quality assessment and investigate several challenges therein.

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