Automated Diagnosis of Otitis Media: Vocabulary and Grammar
Open Access
- 1 January 2013
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Hindawi Limited in International Journal of Biomedical Imaging
- Vol. 2013, 1-15
- https://doi.org/10.1155/2013/327515
Abstract
We propose a novel automated algorithm for classifying diagnostic categories of otitis media: acute otitis media, otitis media with effusion, and no effusion. Acute otitis media represents a bacterial superinfection of the middle ear fluid, while otitis media with effusion represents a sterile effusion that tends to subside spontaneously. Diagnosing children with acute otitis media is difficult, often leading to overprescription of antibiotics as they are beneficial only for children with acute otitis media. This underscores the need for an accurate and automated diagnostic algorithm. To that end, we design a feature set understood by both otoscopists and engineers based on the actual visual cues used by otoscopists; we term this theotitis media vocabulary. We also design a process to combine the vocabulary terms based on the decision process used by otoscopists; we term this theotitis media grammar. The algorithm achieves 89.9% classification accuracy, outperforming both clinicians who did not receive special training and state-of-the-art classifiers.Keywords
Funding Information
- National Science Foundation (1017278, 1DC010283, 3U01AI066007-02S1)
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