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Main Authors: Wu, Wenhua, Hu, Kun, Yue, Wenxi, Li, Wei, Simic, Milena, Li, Changyang, Xiang, Wei, Wang, Zhiyong
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Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.21381
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author Wu, Wenhua
Hu, Kun
Yue, Wenxi
Li, Wei
Simic, Milena
Li, Changyang
Xiang, Wei
Wang, Zhiyong
author_facet Wu, Wenhua
Hu, Kun
Yue, Wenxi
Li, Wei
Simic, Milena
Li, Changyang
Xiang, Wei
Wang, Zhiyong
contents Knee osteoarthritis (KOA), a common form of arthritis that causes physical disability, has become increasingly prevalent in society. Employing computer-aided techniques to automatically assess the severity and progression of KOA can greatly benefit KOA treatment and disease management. Particularly, the advancement of X-ray technology in KOA demonstrates its potential for this purpose. Yet, existing X-ray prognosis research generally yields a singular progression severity grade, overlooking the potential visual changes for understanding and explaining the progression outcome. Therefore, in this study, a novel generative model is proposed, namely Identity-Consistent Radiographic Diffusion Network (IC-RDN), for multifaceted KOA prognosis encompassing a predicted future knee X-ray scan conditioned on the baseline scan. Specifically, an identity prior module for the diffusion and a downstream generation-guided progression prediction module are introduced. Compared to conventional image-to-image generative models, identity priors regularize and guide the diffusion to focus more on the clinical nuances of the prognosis based on a contrastive learning strategy. The progression prediction module utilizes both forecasted and baseline knee scans, and a more comprehensive formulation of KOA severity progression grading is expected. Extensive experiments on a widely used public dataset, OAI, demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.
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spellingShingle Identity-Consistent Diffusion Network for Grading Knee Osteoarthritis Progression in Radiographic Imaging
Wu, Wenhua
Hu, Kun
Yue, Wenxi
Li, Wei
Simic, Milena
Li, Changyang
Xiang, Wei
Wang, Zhiyong
Image and Video Processing
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Knee osteoarthritis (KOA), a common form of arthritis that causes physical disability, has become increasingly prevalent in society. Employing computer-aided techniques to automatically assess the severity and progression of KOA can greatly benefit KOA treatment and disease management. Particularly, the advancement of X-ray technology in KOA demonstrates its potential for this purpose. Yet, existing X-ray prognosis research generally yields a singular progression severity grade, overlooking the potential visual changes for understanding and explaining the progression outcome. Therefore, in this study, a novel generative model is proposed, namely Identity-Consistent Radiographic Diffusion Network (IC-RDN), for multifaceted KOA prognosis encompassing a predicted future knee X-ray scan conditioned on the baseline scan. Specifically, an identity prior module for the diffusion and a downstream generation-guided progression prediction module are introduced. Compared to conventional image-to-image generative models, identity priors regularize and guide the diffusion to focus more on the clinical nuances of the prognosis based on a contrastive learning strategy. The progression prediction module utilizes both forecasted and baseline knee scans, and a more comprehensive formulation of KOA severity progression grading is expected. Extensive experiments on a widely used public dataset, OAI, demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.
title Identity-Consistent Diffusion Network for Grading Knee Osteoarthritis Progression in Radiographic Imaging
topic Image and Video Processing
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.21381