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Dataset and Benchmark for Enhancing Critical Retained Foreign Object Detection

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Pith's one-line read The paper introduces Hopkins RFOs Bench, the first publicly available chest X-ray dataset dedicated to critical retained foreign objects, and shows that physics-based synthetic X-ray augmentation consistently improves detector…

desk verdict The dataset is the real contribution; the synthetic augmentation comparison is useful but rests on point estimates from a tiny test set, so the headline claim needs statistical grounding before this is final. read the letter →

arxiv 2507.06937 v1 pith:Y5OJVBUK submitted 2025-07-09 eess.IV

Yuli Wang , Victoria R. Shi , Liwei Zhou , Richard Chin , Yuwei Dai , Yuanyun Hu , Cheng-Yi Li , Haoyue Guan
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Jiashu Cheng Yu Sun Cheng Ting Lin Ihab Kamel Premal Trivedi Pamela Johnson John Eng Harrison Bai
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The pith

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The reading

Critical retained foreign objects (RFOs) such as surgical sponges and needles are rare but life-threatening "never events," and AI detection has been stymied by the lack of public datasets that actually contain them. This paper builds Hopkins RFOs Bench, a curated set of 144 chest X-rays with critical RFOs collected over 18 years, plus 150 no-RFO and 150 non-critical-RFO images, all with radiologist annotations. It benchmarks four object detectors and finds that augmenting training with physics-based simulated X-rays (DeepDRR-RFO) consistently improves accuracy, false-negative rate, AUC, and localization (FROC), with the best results at 2,000 added synthetic images. In contrast, adding diffusion-generated X-rays (RoentGen-RFO) generally degrades performance. If correct, the paper supplies the first public resource for training and evaluating critical-RFO detectors and gives concrete evidence about which synthetic-data strategy works for this rare-object problem.

What carries the argument

The load-bearing machinery is the dataset itself plus two synthetic-generation pipelines that are directly compared. DeepDRR-RFO is a physics-based pipeline that segments CT volumes into air, soft tissue, and bone, reconstructs 3D models of real surgical items from single photographs, embeds them into the CT volumes, and simulates X-ray formation with material-specific attenuation to produce automatically annotated radiographs. RoentGen-RFO is a diffusion-based pipeline that adapts a pretrained DDPM through carefully designed text prompts, without fine-tuning on RFO images, to generate synthetic chest X-rays containing critical foreign objects. The comparison of these two pipelines, evaluated with the same detectors and metrics on the same held-out test set, carries the paper's central argument about which synthetic-data strategy is effective for rare critical findings.

What would settle it

Train the four detectors with and without +2,000 physics-based synthetic images exactly as described, but evaluate on a separate external test set of 100 or more critical-RFO chest X-rays from another institution; if the synthetic-augmented models do not beat the real-data baseline on AUC and FROC by a margin larger than the run-to-run variance across several random seeds, the paper's central empirical claim would be undermined.

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Core claim

Hopkins RFOs Bench is claimed to be the first publicly available dataset dedicated explicitly to critical RFO cases, containing 144 critical-RFO chest X-ray images from distinct patients, annotated at both image level and object level with bounding boxes or polygons and a critical/non-critical label. On this benchmark, all four tested detectors (Faster R-CNN, FCOS, RetinaNet, YOLO) improve substantially when pretrained on the non-critical Object-CXR dataset and fine-tuned on Hopkins RFOs Bench, e.g., Faster R-CNN's AUC rises from 0.62 to 0.80. When additional physics-based synthetic radiographs are added to the training set, every model improves across ACC, FNR, AUC, and FROC, peaking at 2,000 synthetic images (e.g., RetinaNet reaches 79.5% ACC, 0.23 FNR, 0.78 AUC, 63.5 FROC) and declining slightly at 4,000. Diffusion-based synthetic images, by contrast, generally reduce performance, illustrating the authors' conclusion that physically grounded simulation currently offers more useful training data for critical RFO detection than zero-shot diffusion generation.

Load-bearing premise

The quantitative conclusions rest on a small held-out test set (about 29 critical-RFO images) with no reported confidence intervals or multiple training runs, so a few hard images could change the ranking of training strategies, and the synthetic RFOs themselves are acknowledged to be overly contrasted.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • Researchers gain a public, IRB-approved benchmark with image- and object-level annotations, enabling direct comparison of future critical-RFO detection models.
  • Physics-based synthetic augmentation at moderate scale (around 2,000 images) is a viable strategy to mitigate extreme data scarcity for rare radiological findings.
  • Diffusion-based synthetic data, at least in zero-shot form, is not yet useful for training critical-RFO detectors and may harm performance by introducing distribution shift.
  • Pretraining on a large non-critical RFO dataset (Object-CXR) followed by fine-tuning on a small critical-RFO dataset is an effective transfer recipe, at least on this benchmark.
  • The same benchmark can be used to fine-tune diffusion models on real critical-RFO examples, potentially improving their ability to generate useful synthetic cases.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • An implication the paper leaves implicit is that the reported performance gains rest on a small test set: with a 70/10/20 split of 144 critical cases, the critical test partition contains roughly 29 images, so the superiority of +2,000 physics-based images over +1,000 or +4,000 could shift with a few difficult cases; the authors report no confidence intervals or multi-seed variance.
  • A testable extension is to evaluate the trained detectors on external chest X-rays from another institution to see whether the physics-based synthetic gains transfer beyond the single health system used to build the benchmark.
  • The physics-based pipeline's acknowledged limitation that synthetic RFOs appear overly contrasted suggests a concrete improvement: applying appearance randomization or domain adaptation to the synthetic images before training, then measuring whether gains persist on subtle real-world objects.
  • Because the dataset includes non-critical RFOs and no-RFO images alongside critical cases, it could support multi-class training and calibrated screening workflows, not just binary critical-versus-absent detection.
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Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

4 major / 5 minor

Summary. The paper introduces Hopkins RFOs Bench, a retrospectively collected dataset of 144 chest X-ray images containing critical retained foreign objects (RFOs) from the Johns Hopkins Health System, together with image- and object-level annotations. The authors benchmark four object detectors and compare two synthetic-data augmentation strategies: DeepDRR-RFO, a physics-based pipeline, and RoentGen-RFO, a diffusion-based pipeline. The central claims are that the dataset is the first publicly available resource dedicated to critical RFOs and that physics-based synthetic augmentation consistently improves detection performance across all reported metrics, while DDPM-based augmentation does not.

Significance. If the dataset is released as described, it would fill a real gap: the public RFO datasets listed in Table 1 contain only non-critical objects. The curation process is described carefully, including IRB approval, radiologist second reads, and patient-level data splits, and the authors commit to open release of code and (upon acceptance) data. The paper also provides a useful side-by-side comparison of physics-based and diffusion-based synthetic augmentation. However, the central quantitative claim is not yet statistically grounded: the held-out critical test set is small, Table 2 reports no confidence intervals or seed variability, and the same baseline condition is reported with different values in Table 2 and Table 3. These issues must be resolved before the benchmark results can be relied upon.

major comments (4)
  1. [Section 3 and Section 6.2, Table 2] The held-out critical test set contains roughly 29 images (20% of 144), and Table 2 reports only single point estimates with no confidence intervals, bootstrap resampling, or multiple-seed variability. The observed improvements are small in absolute terms (e.g., FCOS ACC 75.1 to 76.4 and FROC 52.0 to 55.1; Faster-RCNN FROC 50.5 to 54.3), so a change of one or two test cases could alter the rankings. The Section 6.2 conclusion that physics-based augmentation 'consistently improves model performance across all metrics' is therefore not statistically supported as stated.
  2. [Table 2 vs Appendix G, Table 3] The baseline condition is reported inconsistently across the manuscript: Table 2 'Base' for Faster-RCNN gives ACC 74.0, AUC 0.62, FROC 50.5, while Table 3 'Hopkins RFOs Bench' gives ACC 74.3, AUC 0.73, FROC 49.8; FCOS likewise differs (ACC 75.1 vs 71.4, AUC 0.61 vs 0.67). Since these appear to describe the same training condition, the discrepancy must be reconciled before any augmentation comparison is interpretable.
  3. [Section 4.1 and Appendix D] The task definition in Section 4.1 requires object-level predictions with a category ci ∈ {non-critical, critical}, but Appendix D describes binary training that assigns 'class label 1 for all RFOs' and a classification head that distinguishes images with and without RFOs. It is therefore unclear whether any baseline model is trained or evaluated to separate critical from non-critical objects. Because the paper's stated focus is critical RFO detection, the label space used in the benchmark and the metrics reported for critical-object localization must be clarified, or the benchmark should be described as any-RFO detection.
  4. [Section 7 and Limitations paragraph] The authors acknowledge in Section 7 that synthetic RFOs 'often appear with lower image resolution and are overly contrasted against the surrounding anatomical background,' and the Limitations paragraph states that synthetic images 'may still lack certain clinical subtleties found in real data.' These statements qualify the generalizability of the Table 2 gains, since the improvement may be driven by high-contrast synthetic objects rather than by features that transfer to subtle real-world critical RFOs. The discussion should temper the 'consistently improves' claim, or provide per-type or difficulty-stratified evidence that the gains are not an artifact of synthetic object appearance.
minor comments (5)
  1. [Section 3 and Figure 2] The text and figure captions use 'No-critical' where 'non-critical' is intended; please correct this terminology consistently.
  2. [Abstract and Appendix B.1] The Abstract and Section 3 state that the dataset is publicly available/open at GitHub, while Appendix B.1 says the dataset 'will be made fully and publicly available upon acceptance of the corresponding manuscript'; please reconcile these availability statements.
  3. [Table 3 caption] Table 3 is captioned as results on 'different synthetic datasets,' but the rows describe real-data training settings (Object-CXR, Hopkins RFOs Bench, and pretrain-plus-finetune); the caption should be corrected.
  4. [Appendix E] The last line of Appendix E, 'The rndring volume of each RFO are open access on our Hopkins RFO Bench,' contains a typo and unclear wording; please revise it.
  5. [Section 2.3] The definition of DDPMs is given twice in Section 2.3 ('iteratively denoising random inputs' and 'iteratively denoising random noise'); please remove the redundancy.

Circularity Check

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No circular derivation: the benchmark and synthetic-augmentation conclusions rest on a held-out real test set, not on the paper's own equations or self-citations.

full rationale

Walked the full derivation chain. Dataset construction: 144 critical RFO cases come from radiologist review of 6,371 keyword-flagged reports (Section 3, Figure 1); labels are human annotations, not outputs of the proposed models. Benchmark: models trained on Object-CXR, on Hopkins RFOs Bench, or on synthetic-augmented training sets are evaluated on a patient-disjoint held-out split (70/10/20, Section 3); none of the reported ACC/AUC/FROC values are used to fit parameters, and no training configuration is derived by inverting the test metric. Synthetic augmentation: DeepDRR-RFO generates automatic annotations by projecting known 3D RFO placements through the same X-ray simulator (Appendix E), so synthetic ground truth is exact by construction; however, the claim that physics-based augmentation 'consistently improves model performance across all metrics' (Section 6.2) is supported by evaluation on real held-out chest X-rays, so the synthetic labels do not force the result. RoentGen-RFO's prompt-based coordinates are also training-only. No equation defines a predicted quantity in terms of the measured quantity being predicted, and no load-bearing premise is justified solely by a self-citation; refs. [30,35,36] are contextual self-citations, not uniqueness theorems or ansatz sources. The paper's own limitations—single health system, small dataset, 'overly contrasted' synthetic RFOs (Section 7 and Limitation paragraph)—are generalizability and statistical-power caveats, not circularity. The lack of confidence intervals and reliance on a single split is a statistical robustness concern, not a circular-derivation concern.

Assumptions & free parameters 0 free parameters · 4 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The paper introduces no new physical entities or fitted constants. Its contributions are a dataset, a benchmark, and an empirical comparison of two existing synthetic data pipelines. The main unstated dependencies are the accuracy of annotations and the realism of the synthetic renderers.

assumptions (4)
  • domain assumption Radiologist annotations are accurate ground truth for RFO location and type.
    The entire benchmark uses these labels as ground truth; annotation accuracy is only checked by a second read, not measured.
  • domain assumption Chest X-ray is a sufficient modality for detecting the labeled retained foreign objects.
    The paper relies on plain radiographs as the reference standard, though it cites studies where up to one-third of RFOs are missed on such images (Section 2.1).
  • domain assumption TotalSegmentator CT segmentation and TripoSR 3D reconstruction yield physically valid inputs for DeepDRR simulation.
    The physics-based synthetic pipeline depends on these external tools being accurate; no validation of the reconstructed RFO models is provided.
  • domain assumption RoentGen zero-shot prompts place RFOs at the requested coordinates with realistic appearance.
    The DDPM-based synthetic annotations inherit object positions from the prompt coordinates; the paper does not verify that generated images contain objects at those coordinates. Appendix F describes the prompt but no quality check.

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Critical retained foreign objects (RFOs), including surgical instruments like sponges and needles, pose serious patient safety risks and carry significant financial and legal implications for healthcare institutions. Detecting critical RFOs using artificial intelligence remains challenging due to their rarity and the limited availability of chest X-ray datasets that specifically feature critical RFOs cases. Existing datasets only contain non-critical RFOs, like necklace or zipper, further limiting their utility for developing clinically impactful detection algorithms. To address these limitations, we introduce "Hopkins RFOs Bench", the first and largest dataset of its kind, containing 144 chest X-ray images of critical RFO cases collected over 18 years from the Johns Hopkins Health System. Using this dataset, we benchmark several state-of-the-art object detection models, highlighting the need for enhanced detection methodologies for critical RFO cases. Recognizing data scarcity challenges, we further explore image synthetic methods to bridge this gap. We evaluate two advanced synthetic image methods, DeepDRR-RFO, a physics-based method, and RoentGen-RFO, a diffusion-based method, for creating realistic radiographs featuring critical RFOs. Our comprehensive analysis identifies the strengths and limitations of each synthetic method, providing insights into effectively utilizing synthetic data to enhance model training. The Hopkins RFOs Bench and our findings significantly advance the development of reliable, generalizable AI-driven solutions for detecting critical RFOs in clinical chest X-rays.

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Figure 1. A flowchart outlining our cohort definition process is shown. The steps are as follows: [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Examples and statistics from the Hopkins RFOs Bench. (a) An annotated chest X-ray [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Overview of the baseline frameworks, including: (a) object detection models for RFOs [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Objection detection performance for (a) training on the Object-CXR dataset, (b) training [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_4.png]
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Two examples of radiologist annotations for RFOs using the defined annotation protocol [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p014_5.png]
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Annotation examples of six unidentified RFO cases, labeled (a) through (f), from six [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p015_6.png]
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Nine examples of physics-based synthetic chest X-rays with critical RFOs, each generated [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p016_7.png]
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Figure 8. Figure 8: Eight examples of clinical RFO 3D rendering models used for physics-based synthetic [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p017_8.png]
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Figure 9. Figure 9: Nine examples of ddpm-based synthetic chest X-rays with critical RFOs, each generated [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p018_9.png]
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Figure 10. Figure 10: Object detection performance for (a) training on the Hopkins RFO dataset alone, (b) with [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p020_10.png]
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Figure 11. Figure 11: Object detection performance for (a) training on the Hopkins RFO dataset alone, (b) with [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p020_11.png]

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