Yu Weimin, Xiang Qingqing, Hu Yingchao, Du Yukun, Kang Xiaodong, Zheng Dongyun, Shi He, Xu Quyi, Li Zhigang, Niu Yong, Liu Chao, Zhao Jian
Jiangsu JITRI Sioux Technologies Co., Ltd., Suzhou, China.
School of Forensic Medicine, Kunming Medical University, Kunming, China.
Front Microbiol. 2022 Aug 19;13:963059. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2022.963059. eCollection 2022.
The diatom test is a forensic technique that can provide supportive evidence in the diagnosis of drowning but requires the laborious observation and counting of diatoms using a microscopy with too much effort, and therefore it is promising to introduce artificial intelligence (AI) to make the test process automatic. In this article, we propose an artificial intelligence solution based on the YOLOv5 framework for the automatic detection and recognition of the diatom genera. To evaluate the performance of this AI solution in different scenarios, we collected five lab-grown diatom genera and samples of some organic tissues from drowning cases to investigate the potential upper/lower limits of the capability in detecting the diatoms and recognizing their genera. Based on the study of the article, a recall score of 0.95 together with the corresponding precision score of 0.9 were achieved on the samples of the five lab-grown diatom genera cross-validation, and the accuracy of the evaluation in the cases of kidney and liver is above 0.85 based on the precision and recall scores, which demonstrate the effectiveness of the AI solution to be used in drowning forensic routine.
硅藻检验是一种法医技术,可在溺水诊断中提供辅助证据,但需要通过显微镜费力地观察和计数硅藻,因此引入人工智能(AI)使检验过程自动化很有前景。在本文中,我们提出了一种基于YOLOv5框架的人工智能解决方案,用于硅藻属的自动检测和识别。为了评估该人工智能解决方案在不同场景下的性能,我们收集了五种实验室培养的硅藻属以及一些溺水案例中的有机组织样本,以研究检测硅藻及其属的能力的潜在上限/下限。基于本文的研究,在对五种实验室培养的硅藻属样本进行交叉验证时,召回率达到了0.95,相应的精确率为0.9,并且基于精确率和召回率,肾脏和肝脏案例中的评估准确率高于0.85,这证明了该人工智能解决方案在溺水法医常规工作中使用的有效性。