Pub Date : 2022-05-13DOI: 10.2174/1574362417666220513151926
S. F. Joharah, S. Mohideen
Ultrasound imaging is a standard examination during pregnancy that can measure specific biometric parameters towards prenatal diagnosis and estimating gestational age. Fetal head circumference (HC) is a significant factor in determining fetus growth and health. This paper proposes a multi-task deep convolutional neural network for automatic segmentation and estimation of HC (Fetal head circumference) ellipse by minimizing a compound cost function composed of segmentation dice score and MSE of ellipse parameters. Ultrasound-based fetal biometric measurements, such as head circumference (HC) and biparietal diameter (BPD (BIPARIETAL DIAMETER)), are commonly used to evaluate the gestational age and diagnose fetal central nervous system (CNS) pathology. Since manual measurements are operator-dependent and time-consuming, there have been numerous researches on automated methods. However, existing computerized methods still are not satisfactory in terms of accuracy and reliability, owing to difficulties in dealing with various artefacts in ultrasound images. This paper focuses on fetal head biometry and develops a deep-learning-based method for estimating HC (Fetal head circumference) and BPD (BIPARIETAL DIAMETER) with a high degree of accuracy and reliability. The proposed method effectively identifies the head boundary by differentiating tissue image patterns concerning the ultrasound propagation direction. The proposed method was trained with 102 labelled data set and tested to 70 ultrasound images. We achieved a success rate of 92.31% for HC (Fetal head circumference) and BPD (BIPARIETAL DIAMETER) estimations and an accuracy of 87.14% for the plane acceptance check.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-12DOI: 10.2174/1574362417666220412132348
Sahithi Ginjupalli, V. Radhesyam, Manne Suneetha, Gunti Sahithi, Satagopam Sai Keerthana
Prior Authorization is the widely used process by Health Insurance companies in United States before they agree to cover prescribed medication under Medical Insurance. However traditional approach includes long length paper works, leading patients getting delayed in getting their claim processed. This delay may deteriorate patient’s medical condition. Also due to man made errors there is a chance of incorrect decision making process on the claims. On the other hand, physicians are losing their time in getting their prescribed medication approved. It is essential to reduce the wait time of patients and tedious work of physicians for healthcare to be effective. This demands advanced technology which can aid in boosting the decision making process of prior authorization methodology. The aim of this work is to digitize the prior authorization process by implementing classification algorithms which can classify the prior authorization applications into Accepted/Rejected/Partially Accepted classes. Proposed a web application which inputs prior authorization claim details and outputs the predicted class of the claim. Analyzed and collected significant features by implementing Feature selection. Developed classification models using Artificial Neural Networks, Random Forest. Implemented model validation techniques to evaluate classifiers performance. From the research findings Generic medication cost, type of Health insurance plan, Addictive nature and side effects of the prescribed drug, patient physical qualities like Age/Gender/Current Medical condition are the significant attributes that impact the decision making process in prior authorization process. Then implemented classifiers exhibited accurate performance on the Train and Test data. Amongst Artificial Neural Networks portrayed the more accuracy. Further analyzed confusion matrix for developed models. In addition to that performed k-fold cross validation and availed performance evaluation metrics to validate the model performance. Ameliorated Healthcare by removing time, location barriers in Prior Authorization process while ensuring patients get quality and economical medication. The proposed web application with machine learning predictive model as backend, automates the prior authorization process by classifying the applications in few seconds.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-05DOI: 10.2174/1574362417666220405151738
K. Vanitha, D. Satyanarayana, M. Prasad
In the extraction of information from multimodality images, anatomical and functional image fusion became an effective tool in the applications of clinical imaging. Objective: A new approach to fuse anatomical and functional images that use the combination of activity measure and intuitionistic fuzzy sets in NSST domain is presented. First, the high and low-frequency sub-images of source images are obtained by utilizing NSST decomposition, which represents them in multi-scale and multi-directions. Next, the high-frequency sub-images are applied to intuitionistic fuzzy sets, in which the fused coefficients are selected using an activity measure called fuzzy entropy. The multiplication of weighted local energy and weighted sum modified Laplacian is used as an activity measure to fuse the low-frequency sub-images. At last, the reconstruction of the final fused image is done by applying the inverse NSST on the above-fused coefficients. The efficacy of the proposed fuzzy-based method is verifiable by five different modalities of anatomical and functional images. Both subjective and objective calculations showed better results than existing methods.
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