Long-term performance assessment of fully automatic biomedical glottis segmentation at the point of care

Groh R, Dürr S, Schützenberger A, Semmler M, Kist A (2022)

Publication Type: Journal article

Publication year: 2022

Journal

PLoS ONE Public Library of Science

Book Volume: 17

Pages Range: e0266989-

Journal Issue: 9

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0266989

Abstract

Deep Learning has a large impact on medical image analysis and lately has been adopted for clinical use at the point of care. However, there is only a small number of reports of long-term studies that show the performance of deep neural networks (DNNs) in such an environment. In this study, we measured the long-term performance of a clinically optimized DNN for laryngeal glottis segmentation. We have collected the video footage for two years from an AI-powered laryngeal high-speed videoendoscopy imaging system and found that the footage image quality is stable across time. Next, we determined the DNN segmentation performance on lossy and lossless compressed data revealing that only 9% of recordings contain segmentation artifacts. We found that lossy and lossless compression is on par for glottis segmentation, however, lossless compression provides significantly superior image quality. Lastly, we employed continual learning strategies to continuously incorporate new data into the DNN to remove the aforementioned segmentation artifacts. With modest manual intervention, we were able to largely alleviate these segmentation artifacts by up to 81%. We believe that our suggested deep learning-enhanced laryngeal imaging platform consistently provides clinically sound results, and together with our proposed continual learning scheme will have a long-lasting impact on the future of laryngeal imaging.

Authors with CRIS profile

René Groh Juniorprofessur für Artificial Intelligence in Communication Disorders Stephan Dürr Lehrstuhl für Hals-, Nasen- und Ohrenheilkunde Anne Schützenberger Department of Otorhinolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery Marion Semmler
Andreas Kist Juniorprofessur für Artificial Intelligence in Communication Disorders

How to cite

APA:

Groh, R., Dürr, S., Schützenberger, A., Semmler, M., & Kist, A. (2022). Long-term performance assessment of fully automatic biomedical glottis segmentation at the point of care. PLoS ONE, 17(9), e0266989-. https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0266989

MLA:

Groh, René, et al. "Long-term performance assessment of fully automatic biomedical glottis segmentation at the point of care." PLoS ONE 17.9 (2022): e0266989-.

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