Research Article

Rib Fracture Detection with Dual-Attention Enhanced U-Net

Table 1

Review of deep learning applications of rib fracture detection.

ReferenceDatasetMethod usedEvaluation metricsResearch challenges

[23]In-house dataset. No information about the dataset is mentioned in the paperRib region extract method and spatial coherence convolutional neural networkAccuracy, recall, and speedThere were limited comparative experiments and the potential of CNN networks was not fully researched
[24]1,079 patients and 25,054 2D annotations from 3 different hospitals, slice thicknesses range from 1 to 5 mmFaster R-CNNPrecision recall, and -scoreThis work only used 2D CNN, and no 3D information was combined. The precision and recall of this work were not particularly high
[26]A total of 7,473 annotated traumatic rib fractures from 900 patients from a single center, slice thicknesses range from 1 to 1.25 mmSliding widow mechanism and a modified U-Net called FracNetFree response receiver-operating characteristic (FROC) analysisThis article only carried out a single-center study, and the landscape of deep neural networks was not fully explored
[28]8,529 chest CT images and 33,828 annotations, slice thickness of CT images was 0.625 mmRib fracture detection pipeline consisting of five stages: rib segmentation, vertebra detection, rib labeling, rib fracture detection, and rib fracture classification. VRB-Net for rib fracture detectionRecall, precision, and scoreThe ground truth for detection and classification may include incorrect cases caused by incorrect annotation