Jonathan Burkow, Gregory Holste, Jeffrey Otjen, Francisco Perez, Joseph Junewick, Andy Zbojniewicz, Erin Romberg, Sarah Menashe, Jamie Frost, Adam Alessio
Rib fractures are highly predictive of non-accidental trauma in children under 3 years old. Rib fracture detection in pediatric radiographs is challenging because fractures can be obliquely oriented to the imaging detector, obfuscated by other structures, incomplete, and non-displaced. Prior studies have shown up to two-thirds of rib fractures may be missed during initial interpretation. In this paper, we implemented methods for improving the sensitivity (i.e. recall) performance for detecting and localizing rib fractures in pediatric chest radiographs to help augment performance of radiology interpretation...
April 10, 2024: Scientific Reports