MetPhaFrac: Detection of Metacarpophalangeal Fractures Using Mask R-CNN Inception v3: An AI-Driven Approach
摘要
Metacarpophalangeal fractures, being common injuries of the hand, are subtle and may not be diagnosed on routine radiographs leading to misdiagnosis and reduced function owing to variable image quality. In this work, the study introduced MetPhaFrac (Metacarpal Phalanges Fracture), an ensemble model that fuses Mask Region-based Convolutional Neural Network (R-CNN) with Inception v3 as backbone, which allows to detect and instance segment metacarpal phalanges fractures accurately and worked with a primary dataset of 2,245 anonymised X-ray images (1,450 fractured and 795 non-fractured). The model was trained on an NVIDIA A100 GPU using PyTorch, AdamW was used as an optimiser. The model achieved 93.3% mean average precision (mAP) @0. 5 with 94.7% precision, 92.2% recall and 91.1% F1-score that surpassing other benchmark models. This artificial intelligence (AI) approach, enhances diagnostic precision with pixel-level segmentation, with future work targeting real-time clinical integration.