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Yang X, Zhang B, Liu Y, Lv Q, Guo J. Automatic Quantitative Assessment of Muscle Strength Based on Deep Learning and Ultrasound. ULTRASONIC IMAGING 2024:1617346241255590. [PMID: 38881032 DOI: 10.1177/01617346241255590] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/18/2024]
Abstract
Skeletal muscle is a vital organ that promotes human movement and maintains posture. Accurate assessment of muscle strength is helpful to provide valuable insights for athletes' rehabilitation and strength training. However, traditional techniques rely heavily on the operator's expertise, which may affect the accuracy of the results. In this study, we propose an automated method to evaluate muscle strength using ultrasound and deep learning techniques. B-mode ultrasound data of biceps brachii of multiple athletes at different strength levels were collected and then used to train our deep learning model. To evaluate the effectiveness of this method, this study tested the contraction of the biceps brachii under different force levels. The classification accuracy of this method for grade 4 and grade 6 muscle strength reached 98% and 96%, respectively, and the overall average accuracy was 93% and 87%, respectively. The experimental results confirm that the innovative methods in this paper can accurately and effectively evaluate and classify muscle strength.
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Affiliation(s)
- Xiao Yang
- Key Laboratory of Ultrasound of Shaanxi Province, School of Physics and Information Technology, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, China
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- Key Laboratory of Ultrasound of Shaanxi Province, School of Physics and Information Technology, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, China
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- Key Laboratory of Ultrasound of Shaanxi Province, School of Physics and Information Technology, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, China
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- Key Laboratory of Ultrasound of Shaanxi Province, School of Physics and Information Technology, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, China
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- Key Laboratory of Ultrasound of Shaanxi Province, School of Physics and Information Technology, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, China
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Yi J, Hahn S, Oh K, Lee YH. Sarcopenia prediction using shear-wave elastography, grayscale ultrasonography, and clinical information with machine learning fusion techniques: feature-level fusion vs. score-level fusion. Sci Rep 2024; 14:2769. [PMID: 38307965 PMCID: PMC10837421 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-52614-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/31/2023] [Accepted: 01/21/2024] [Indexed: 02/04/2024] Open
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This study aimed to develop and evaluate a sarcopenia prediction model by fusing numerical features from shear-wave elastography (SWE) and gray-scale ultrasonography (GSU) examinations, using the rectus femoris muscle (RF) and categorical/numerical features related to clinical information. Both cohorts (development, 70 healthy subjects; evaluation, 81 patients) underwent ultrasonography (SWE and GSU) and computed tomography. Sarcopenia was determined using skeletal muscle index calculated from the computed tomography. Clinical and ultrasonography measurements were used to predict sarcopenia based on a linear regression model with the least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO) regularization. Furthermore, clinical and ultrasonography features were combined at the feature and score levels to improve sarcopenia prediction performance. The accuracies of LASSO were 70.57 ± 5.00-81.54 ± 4.83 (clinical) and 69.00 ± 4.52-69.73 ± 5.47 (ultrasonography). Feature-level fusion of clinical and ultrasonography (accuracy, 70.29 ± 6.63 and 83.55 ± 4.32) showed similar performance with clinical features. Score-level fusion by AdaBoost showed the best performance (accuracy, 73.43 ± 6.57-83.17 ± 5.51) in the development and evaluation cohorts, respectively. This study might suggest the potential of machine learning fusion techniques to enhance the accuracy of sarcopenia prediction models and improve clinical decision-making in patients with sarcopenia.
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- Jisook Yi
- Department of Radiology, Haeundae Paik Hospital, Inje University College of Medicine, Busan, South Korea
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- Department of Radiology, Haeundae Paik Hospital, Inje University College of Medicine, Busan, South Korea
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- Department of Radiology, Research Institute of Radiological Science, and Center for Clinical Imaging Data Science (CCIDS), Yonsei University College of Medicine, 50-1 Yonsei-Ro, Seodaemun-Gu, Seoul, 03722, South Korea.
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- Department of Radiology, Research Institute of Radiological Science, and Center for Clinical Imaging Data Science (CCIDS), Yonsei University College of Medicine, 50-1 Yonsei-Ro, Seodaemun-Gu, Seoul, 03722, South Korea.
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Katakis S, Barotsis N, Kakotaritis A, Tsiganos P, Economou G, Panagiotopoulos E, Panayiotakis G. Muscle Cross-Sectional Area Segmentation in Transverse Ultrasound Images Using Vision Transformers. Diagnostics (Basel) 2023; 13:diagnostics13020217. [PMID: 36673026 PMCID: PMC9858099 DOI: 10.3390/diagnostics13020217] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/04/2022] [Revised: 12/28/2022] [Accepted: 01/03/2023] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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Automatically measuring a muscle’s cross-sectional area is an important application in clinical practice that has been studied extensively in recent years for its ability to assess muscle architecture. Additionally, an adequately segmented cross-sectional area can be used to estimate the echogenicity of the muscle, another valuable parameter correlated with muscle quality. This study assesses state-of-the-art convolutional neural networks and vision transformers for automating this task in a new, large, and diverse database. This database consists of 2005 transverse ultrasound images from four informative muscles for neuromuscular disorders, recorded from 210 subjects of different ages, pathological conditions, and sexes. Regarding the reported results, all of the evaluated deep learning models have achieved near-to-human-level performance. In particular, the manual vs. the automatic measurements of the cross-sectional area exhibit an average discrepancy of less than 38.15 mm2, a significant result demonstrating the feasibility of automating this task. Moreover, the difference in muscle echogenicity estimated from these two readings is only 0.88, another indicator of the proposed method’s success. Furthermore, Bland−Altman analysis of the measurements exhibits no systematic errors since most differences fall between the 95% limits of agreements and the two readings have a 0.97 Pearson’s correlation coefficient (p < 0.001, validation set) with ICC (2, 1) surpassing 0.97, showing the reliability of this approach. Finally, as a supplementary analysis, the texture of the muscle’s visible cross-sectional area was examined using deep learning to investigate whether a classification between healthy subjects and patients with pathological conditions solely from the muscle texture is possible. Our preliminary results indicate that such a task is feasible, but further and more extensive studies are required for more conclusive results.
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- Sofoklis Katakis
- Electronics Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Patras, 26504 Patras, Greece
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- Department of Medical Physics, School of Medicine, University of Patras, 26504 Patras, Greece
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- Electronics Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Patras, 26504 Patras, Greece
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- Clinical Radiology Laboratory, School of Medicine, University of Patras, 26504 Patras, Greece
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- Electronics Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Patras, 26504 Patras, Greece
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- Orthopaedic and Rehabilitation Department, Patras University Hospital, 26504 Patras, Greece
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- Department of Medical Physics, School of Medicine, University of Patras, 26504 Patras, Greece
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Carrillo-Vega MF, Pérez-Zepeda MU, Salinas-Escudero G, García-Peña C, Reyes-Ramírez ED, Espinel-Bermúdez MC, Sánchez-García S, Parra-Rodríguez L. Patterns of Muscle-Related Risk Factors for Sarcopenia in Older Mexican Women. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH 2022; 19:10239. [PMID: 36011874 PMCID: PMC9408641 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph191610239] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/26/2022] [Revised: 07/27/2022] [Accepted: 07/29/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Early detriment in the muscle mass quantity, quality, and functionality, determined by calf circumference (CC), phase angle (PA), gait time (GT), and grip strength (GSt), may be considered a risk factor for sarcopenia. Patterns derived from these parameters could timely identify an early stage of this disease. Thus, the present work aims to identify those patterns of muscle-related parameters and their association with sarcopenia in a cohort of older Mexican women with neural network analysis. Methods: Information from the functional decline patterns at the end of life, related factors, and associated costs study was used. A self-organizing map was used to analyze the information. A SOM is an unsupervised machine learning technique that projects input variables on a low-dimensional hexagonal grid that can be effectively utilized to visualize and explore properties of the data allowing to cluster individuals with similar age, GT, GSt, CC, and PA. An unadjusted logistic regression model assessed the probability of having sarcopenia given a particular cluster. Results: 250 women were evaluated. Mean age was 68.54 ± 5.99, sarcopenia was present in 31 (12.4%). Clusters 1 and 2 had similar GT, GSt, and CC values. Moreover, in cluster 1, women were older with higher PA values (p < 0.001). From cluster 3 upward, there is a trend of worse scores for every variable. Moreover, 100% of the participants in cluster 6 have sarcopenia (p < 0.001). Women in clusters 4 and 5 were 19.29 and 90 respectively, times more likely to develop sarcopenia than those from cluster 2 (p < 0.01). Conclusions: The joint use of age, GSt, GT, CC, and PA is strongly associated with the probability women have of presenting sarcopenia.
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- Instituto Nacional de Geriatría, Dirección de Investigación, Av. Contreras 428, Ciudad de México 10200, Mexico
- Centro de Investigación en Ciencias de la Salud (CICSA), Universidad Anáhuac México Campus NorteFCS, Huixquilucan 52786, Mexico
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- Hospital Infantil de Mexico Federico Gómez, Centro de Estudios Económicos y Sociales en Salud, Calle Doctor Márquez 162, Ciudad de Mexico 06720, Mexico
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- Instituto Nacional de Geriatría, Dirección de Investigación, Av. Contreras 428, Ciudad de México 10200, Mexico
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- Instituto Nacional de Geriatría, Dirección de Investigación, Av. Contreras 428, Ciudad de México 10200, Mexico
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- Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, Centro Mexico Nacional de Occidente, Unidad Médica de Alta Especialidad Hospital de Especialidades, Unidad de Investigación Biomédica 02 y División de Investigación en Salud, Av. Belisario Domínguez 1000, Guadalajara 44340, Mexico
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- Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, Centro Médico Nacional Siglo XXI, Unidad de Investigación en Epidemiología y Servicios de Salud, Área de Envejecimiento, Av. Cuauhtémoc 330, Ciudad de México 06720, Mexico
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- Instituto Nacional de Geriatría, Dirección de Investigación, Av. Contreras 428, Ciudad de México 10200, Mexico
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