Invisible Yet Detected: PelFANet with Attention-Guided Anatomical Fusion for Pelvic Fracture Diagnosis

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Main Authors: Bhuiyan, Siam Tahsin, Rahman, Rashedur, Wasi, Sefatul, Yagi, Naomi, Kobashi, Syoji, Islam, Ashraful, Alam, Saadia Binte
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Published: 2025
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author Bhuiyan, Siam Tahsin
Rahman, Rashedur
Wasi, Sefatul
Yagi, Naomi
Kobashi, Syoji
Islam, Ashraful
Alam, Saadia Binte
author_facet Bhuiyan, Siam Tahsin
Rahman, Rashedur
Wasi, Sefatul
Yagi, Naomi
Kobashi, Syoji
Islam, Ashraful
Alam, Saadia Binte
contents Pelvic fractures pose significant diagnostic challenges, particularly in cases where fracture signs are subtle or invisible on standard radiographs. To address this, we introduce PelFANet, a dual-stream attention network that fuses raw pelvic X-rays with segmented bone images to improve fracture classification. The network employs Fused Attention Blocks (FABlocks) to iteratively exchange and refine features from both inputs, capturing global context and localized anatomical detail. Trained in a two-stage pipeline with a segmentation-guided approach, PelFANet demonstrates superior performance over conventional methods. On the AMERI dataset, it achieves 88.68% accuracy and 0.9334 AUC on visible fractures, while generalizing effectively to invisible fracture cases with 82.29% accuracy and 0.8688 AUC, despite not being trained on them. These results highlight the clinical potential of anatomy-aware dual-input architectures for robust fracture detection, especially in scenarios with subtle radiographic presentations.
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spellingShingle Invisible Yet Detected: PelFANet with Attention-Guided Anatomical Fusion for Pelvic Fracture Diagnosis
Bhuiyan, Siam Tahsin
Rahman, Rashedur
Wasi, Sefatul
Yagi, Naomi
Kobashi, Syoji
Islam, Ashraful
Alam, Saadia Binte
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Pelvic fractures pose significant diagnostic challenges, particularly in cases where fracture signs are subtle or invisible on standard radiographs. To address this, we introduce PelFANet, a dual-stream attention network that fuses raw pelvic X-rays with segmented bone images to improve fracture classification. The network employs Fused Attention Blocks (FABlocks) to iteratively exchange and refine features from both inputs, capturing global context and localized anatomical detail. Trained in a two-stage pipeline with a segmentation-guided approach, PelFANet demonstrates superior performance over conventional methods. On the AMERI dataset, it achieves 88.68% accuracy and 0.9334 AUC on visible fractures, while generalizing effectively to invisible fracture cases with 82.29% accuracy and 0.8688 AUC, despite not being trained on them. These results highlight the clinical potential of anatomy-aware dual-input architectures for robust fracture detection, especially in scenarios with subtle radiographic presentations.
title Invisible Yet Detected: PelFANet with Attention-Guided Anatomical Fusion for Pelvic Fracture Diagnosis
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13873