@inproceedings{fad9dcf1ab8d4537824c0c9c0bda069c,
title = "Early Experiences with Crowdsourcing Airway Annotations in Chest CT",
abstract = "Measuring airways in chest computed tomography (CT) images is important for characterizing diseases such as cystic fibrosis, yet very time-consuming to perform manually. Machine learning algorithms offer an alternative, but need large sets of annotated data to perform well. We investigate whether crowdsourcing can be used to gather airway annotations which can serve directly for measuring the airways, or as training data for the algorithms. We generate image slices at known locations of airways and request untrained crowd workers to outline the airway lumen and airway wall. Our results show that the workers are able to interpret the images, but that the instructions are too complex, leading to many unusable annotations. After excluding unusable annotations, quantitative results show medium to high correlations with expert measurements of the airways. Based on this positive experience, we describe a number of further research directions and provide insight into the challenges of crowdsourcing in medical images from the perspective of first-time users.",
author = "Veronika Cheplygina and Adria Perez-Rovira and Wieying Kuo and Tiddens, {Harm A.W.M.} and Bruijne, {M de}",
year = "2016",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-319-46976-8_22",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-3-319-46975-1",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science",
publisher = "Springer Science+Business Media",
pages = "209--2018",
editor = "G. Carneiro and D. Mateus and L. Peter and A. Bradley and J.M.R.S. Tavares and V. Belagiannis and J.P. Papa and J.C. Nascimento and M. Loog and Z. Lu and J.S. Cardoso and J. Cornebise",
booktitle = "Deep Learning and Data Labeling for Medical Applications",
note = "First International Workshop, LABELS 2016, and Second International Workshop, DLMIA 2016 : Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2016 ; Conference date: 21-10-2016 Through 21-10-2016",
}