Thermography based diagnosis of ruptured anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) in canines

Norsang Lama; Scott E. Umbaugh; Deependra Mishra; Rohini Dahal; Dominic J. Marino; Joseph Sackman

doi:10.1117/12.2237462

27 September 2016 Thermography based diagnosis of ruptured anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) in canines

Norsang Lama, Scott E. Umbaugh, Deependra Mishra, Rohini Dahal, Dominic J. Marino, Joseph Sackman

Proceedings Volume 9971, Applications of Digital Image Processing XXXIX; 99712N (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2237462
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2016, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) rupture in canines is a common orthopedic injury in veterinary medicine. Veterinarians use both imaging and non-imaging methods to diagnose the disease. Common imaging methods such as radiography, computed tomography (CT scan) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) have some disadvantages: expensive setup, high dose of radiation, and time-consuming. In this paper, we present an alternative diagnostic method based on feature extraction and pattern classification (FEPC) to diagnose abnormal patterns in ACL thermograms. The proposed method was experimented with a total of 30 thermograms for each camera view (anterior, lateral and posterior) including 14 disease and 16 non-disease cases provided from Long Island Veterinary Specialists. The normal and abnormal patterns in thermograms are analyzed in two steps: feature extraction and pattern classification. Texture features based on gray level co-occurrence matrices (GLCM), histogram features and spectral features are extracted from the color normalized thermograms and the computed feature vectors are applied to Nearest Neighbor (NN) classifier, K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN) classifier and Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifier with leave-one-out validation method. The algorithm gives the best classification success rate of 86.67% with a sensitivity of 85.71% and a specificity of 87.5% in ACL rupture detection using NN classifier for the lateral view and Norm-RGB-Lum color normalization method. Our results show that the proposed method has the potential to detect ACL rupture in canines.

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Norsang Lama, Scott E. Umbaugh, Deependra Mishra, Rohini Dahal, Dominic J. Marino, and Joseph Sackman "Thermography based diagnosis of ruptured anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) in canines", Proc. SPIE 9971, Applications of Digital Image Processing XXXIX, 99712N (27 September 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2237462

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