Validation and correlation with clinical data of a newly developed computer aided diagnostic system for the classification of paranasal anomalies in the maxillary sinus from MRI images

Introduction Large scale population studies are used to analyse the rate of finding sinus opacities in cranial MRIs (cMRI). Artificial Intelligence support systems can automate the detection of sinus opacities and reduce the workload of clinicians. We developed and evaluated a Computer Aided Diagnostics system based on a 3D Convolutional Neural Network (3D CNN) that automatically extracts and classifies maxillary sinus (MS) from cMRI.