Affiliation:
1. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe University, 5-2, Kusunoki-cho 7, Chuo-ku, Kobe-shi 650-0017, Japan
Abstract
Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) is caused by subsynovial connective tissue fibrosis, resulting in median nerve (MN) mobility. The standard evaluation method is the measurement of the MN cross-sectional area using static images, and dynamic images are not widely used. In recent years, remarkable progress has been made in the field of deep learning (DL) in medical image processing. The aim of the present study was to evaluate MN dynamics in CTS hands using the YOLOv5 model, which is one of the object detection models of DL. We included 20 normal hands (control group) and 20 CTS hands (CTS group). We obtained ultrasonographic short-axis images of the carpal tunnel and the MN and recorded MN motion during finger flexion–extension, and evaluated MN displacement and velocity. The YOLOv5 model showed a score of 0.953 for precision and 0.956 for recall. The radial–ulnar displacement of the MN was 3.56 mm in the control group and 2.04 mm in the CTS group, and the velocity of the MN was 4.22 mm/s in the control group and 3.14 mm/s in the CTS group. The scores were significantly reduced in the CTS group. This study demonstrates the potential of DL-based dynamic MN analysis as a powerful diagnostic tool for CTS.
Subject
Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes,Computer Science Applications,Process Chemistry and Technology,General Engineering,Instrumentation,General Materials Science
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