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Ultrasonic Image's Annotation Removal: A Self-supervised Noise2Noise Approach
Yuanheng Zhang1
Nan Jiang2
Zhaoheng Xie3
Junying Cao2, *
Yueyang Teng1, *
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Submitted: 11 Mar 2024 | Revised: 25 May 2024 | Accepted: 28 May 2024 | Published: 17 Jul 2024

Abstract

Accurately annotated ultrasonic images are vital components of a high-quality medical report. Hospitals often have strict guidelines on the types of annotations that should appear on imaging results. However, manually inspecting these images can be a cumbersome task. While a neural network could potentially automate the process, training such a model typically requires a dataset of paired input and target images, which in turn involves significant human labor. This study introduces an automated approach for detecting annotations in images. This is achieved by treating the annotations as noise, creating a self-supervised pretext task and using a model trained under the Noise2Noise scheme to restore the image to a clean state. We tested a variety of model structures on the denoising task against different types of annotation, including body marker annotation, radial line annotation, etc. Our results demonstrate that most models trained under the Noise2Noise scheme outperformed their counterparts trained with noisy-clean data pairs. The costumed U-Net yielded the most optimal outcome on the body marker annotation dataset, with high scores on segmentation precision and reconstruction similarity. Our approach streamlines the laborious task of manually quality-controlling ultrasound scans, with minimal human labor involved, making the quality control process efficient and scalable.

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Zhang , Y., Jiang , N., Xie , Z., Cao , J., & Teng , Y. (2024). Ultrasonic Image’s Annotation Removal: A Self-supervised Noise2Noise Approach. AI Medicine, 1(1), 4. https://doi.org/10.53941/aim.2024.100004
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