This invention provides a method,
system, and medium for assessing the
fragility of
kidney stones based on CT images, belonging to the field of CT
image processing technology. The method includes: acquiring CT images with stone border labels and a
training set of the maximum fragment volume after ESWL (Extract, Scale, and Lie); extracting stone morphology, texture, and heterogeneity features from the CT images to construct an original multimodal
feature vector; constructing a multimodal grouped
autoencoder, with the first layer being a
group discovery layer; setting a group weight matrix; using mean squared error as the reconstruction loss; and introducing an L2,1 norm
sparse regularization term during training to obtain the weight matrix; filtering features based on the absolute value threshold of the weights in each row of the matrix to construct feature groups; calculating group weights based on the variance of each feature group in the
training set; for each sample, taking the mean of features within the group, and weighting and fusing them with group weights to obtain a fused
feature vector; and finally training a
multilayer perceptron regression model using the fused features as input to obtain a
fragility assessment model. This method integrates multiple types of features and automatically mines associated feature groups, solving the problem of low accuracy in assessing
kidney stone
fragility caused by a single reference factor.