Determination of Tympanic Membrane Region in the Middle Ear Otoscope Images with Convolutional Neural Network Based YOLO Method
Abstract
Due to inflammation of the middle ear, various deformations occur in the eardrum. In order to diagnose the disease, it is necessary to examine the tympanic membrane in detail with an otoscope. In recent years, deep learning has been applied in many areas including biomedical field and very effective results have been achieved. Deep learning based methods are used successfully in automatic object detection. In this study, a deep learning based object detection method namely You Only Look Once (YOLO), is used for automatic detection of tympanic membrane in eardrum images obtained using otoscope device. To enable automatic detection of tympanic membrane by YOLO, experimental studies were conducted with AlexNet, VGGNet, GoogLeNet and ResNet. According to the performance results, the most efficient results were obtained with ResNet and VGGNet architectures. Tympanic membrane region detection with YOLO, was performed with an accuracy rate of 93%.
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Details
Primary Language
English
Subjects
Engineering
Journal Section
Research Article
Authors
Erdal Başaran
*
0000-0001-8569-2998
Türkiye
Zafer Cömert
This is me
0000-0001-5256-7648
Türkiye
Yüksel Çelik
0000-0002-7117-9736
Türkiye
Subha Velappan
This is me
0000-0002-4992-4090
India
Mesut Toğaçar
0000-0002-8264-3899
Türkiye
Publication Date
September 22, 2020
Submission Date
September 11, 2019
Acceptance Date
April 28, 2020
Published in Issue
Year 2020 Volume: 22 Number: 66