Channelized relevance vector machine as a numerical observer for cardiac perfusion defect detection task

Mahdi M. Kalayeh; Thibault Marin; P. Hendrik Pretorius; Miles N. Wernick; Yongyi Yang; Jovan G. Brankov

doi:10.1117/12.878176

3 March 2011 Channelized relevance vector machine as a numerical observer for cardiac perfusion defect detection task

Mahdi M. Kalayeh, Thibault Marin, P. Hendrik Pretorius, Miles N. Wernick, Yongyi Yang, Jovan G. Brankov

Proceedings Volume 7966, Medical Imaging 2011: Image Perception, Observer Performance, and Technology Assessment; 79660E (2011) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.878176
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2011, Lake Buena Vista (Orlando), Florida, United States

Abstract

In this paper, we present a numerical observer for image quality assessment, aiming to predict human observer accuracy in a cardiac perfusion defect detection task for single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT). In medical imaging, image quality should be assessed by evaluating the human observer accuracy for a specific diagnostic task. This approach is known as task-based assessment. Such evaluations are important for optimizing and testing imaging devices and algorithms. Unfortunately, human observer studies with expert readers are costly and time-demanding. To address this problem, numerical observers have been developed as a surrogate for human readers to predict human diagnostic performance. The channelized Hotelling observer (CHO) with internal noise model has been found to predict human performance well in some situations, but does not always generalize well to unseen data. We have argued in the past that finding a model to predict human observers could be viewed as a machine learning problem. Following this approach, in this paper we propose a channelized relevance vector machine (CRVM) to predict human diagnostic scores in a detection task. We have previously used channelized support vector machines (CSVM) to predict human scores and have shown that this approach offers better and more robust predictions than the classical CHO method. The comparison of the proposed CRVM with our previously introduced CSVM method suggests that CRVM can achieve similar generalization accuracy, while dramatically reducing model complexity and computation time.

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Mahdi M. Kalayeh, Thibault Marin, P. Hendrik Pretorius, Miles N. Wernick, Yongyi Yang, and Jovan G. Brankov "Channelized relevance vector machine as a numerical observer for cardiac perfusion defect detection task", Proc. SPIE 7966, Medical Imaging 2011: Image Perception, Observer Performance, and Technology Assessment, 79660E (3 March 2011); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.878176

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