In this work, we present an end-to-end deep learning framework for X-ray image diagnosis. As the first step, our system determines whether a submitted image is an X-ray or not. After it classifies the type of the X-ray, it runs the dedicated abnormality classification network. In this work, we only focus on the chest X-rays for abnormality classification. However, the system can be extended to other X-ray types easily. Our deep learning classifiers are based on DenseNet-121 architecture. The test set accuracy obtained for 'X-ray or Not', 'X-ray Type Classification', and 'Chest Abnormality Classification' tasks are 0.987, 0.976, and 0.947, respectively, resulting into an end-to-end accuracy of 0.91. For achieving better results than the state-of-the-art in the 'Chest Abnormality Classification', we utilize the new RAdam optimizer. We also use Gradient-weighted Class Activation Mapping for visual explanation of the results. Our results show the feasibility of a generalized online projectional radiography diagnosis system.
Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) intrinsically requires large-scale data whereas Chest X-Ray (CXR) images tend to be data/annotation-scarce, leading to over-fitting. Therefore, based on our development experience and related work, this paper thoroughly introduces tricks to improve generalization in the CXR diagnosis: how to (i) leverage additional data, (ii) augment/distillate data, (iii) regularize training, and (iv) conduct efficient segmentation. As a development example based on such optimization techniques, we also feature LPIXEL's CNN-based CXR solution, EIRL Chest Nodule, which impr…
Hebei University of Technology(河北工业大学);University of Oxford(牛津大学);Hospital of Joint Logistics Support Force(联勤保障部队第九八三医院)
Computer-Aided Diagnosis and Treatment of Tumors is a hot topic of deep learning in recent years, which constitutes a series of medical tasks, such as detection of tumor markers, the outline of tumor leisures, subtypes and stages of tumors, prediction of therapeutic effect, and drug development. Meanwhile, there are some deep learning models with precise positioning and excellent performance produced in mainstream task scenarios. Thus follow to introduce deep learning methods from task-orient, mainly focus on the improvements for medical tasks. Then to summarize the recent progress in four sta…
Semnan University(塞姆南大学);Amirkabir University of Technology(阿米尔卡比尔理工大学)
The Coronavirus was detected in Wuhan, China in late 2019 and then led to a pandemic with a rapid worldwide outbreak. The number of infected people has been swiftly increasing since then. Therefore, in this study, an attempt was made to propose a new and efficient method for automatic diagnosis of Corona disease from X-ray images using Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). In the proposed method, the DensNet169 was used to extract the features of the patients' Chest X-Ray (CXR) images. The extracted features were given to a feature selection algorithm (i.e., ANOVA) to select a number of them. Finally, …
The coronavirus continues to disrupt our everyday lives as it spreads at an exponential rate. It needs to be detected quickly in order to quarantine positive patients so as to avoid further spread. This work proposes a new convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture called 'slow Encoding CNN. The proposed model's best performance wrt Sensitivity, Positive Predictive Value (PPV) found to be SP=0.67, PP=0.98, SN=0.96, and PN=0.52 on AI AGAINST COVID19 - Screening X-ray images for COVID-19 Infections competition's test data samples. SP and PP stand for the Sensitivity and PPV of the COVID-19 …
Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai(韦洛尔理工学院(金奈校区))
Tuberculosis is an infectious disease that is leading to the death of millions of people across the world. The mortality rate of this disease is high in patients suffering from immuno-compromised disorders. The early diagnosis of this disease can save lives and can avoid further complications. But the diagnosis of TB is a very complex task. The standard diagnostic tests still rely on traditional procedures developed in the last century. These procedures are slow and expensive. So this paper presents an automatic approach for the diagnosis of TB from posteroanterior chest x-rays. This is a two-…
There are multiple papers published about different AI models for the COVID-19 diagnosis with promising results. Unfortunately according to the reviews many of the papers do not reach the level of sophistication needed for a clinically usable model. In this paper I go through multiple review papers, guidelines, and other relevant material in order to generate more comprehensive requirements for the future papers proposing a AI based diagnosis of the COVID-19 from chest X-ray data (CXR). Main findings are that a clinically usable AI needs to have an extremely good documentation, comprehensive s…
School of Computing and Information Technology, University of Wollongong(卧龙岗大学计算与信息技术学院)
The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) is affecting increasingly large number of people worldwide, posing significant stress to the health care systems. Early and accurate diagnosis of COVID-19 is critical in screening of infected patients and breaking the person-to-person transmission. Chest X-ray (CXR) based computer-aided diagnosis of COVID-19 using deep learning becomes a promising solution to this end. However, the diverse and various radiographic features of COVID-19 make it challenging, especially when considering each CXR scan typically only generates one single image. Data scarcity i…
In this work, we use a deep learning framework for simultaneous classification and regression of Parkinson disease diagnosis based on MR-Images and personal information (i.e. age, gender). We intend to facilitate and increase the confidence in Parkinson disease diagnosis through our deep learning framework.
Deep neural networks (DNN) have achieved unprecedented performance in computer-vision tasks almost ubiquitously in business, technology, and science. While substantial efforts are made to engineer highly accurate architectures and provide usable model explanations, most state-of-the-art approaches are first designed for natural vision and then translated to the medical domain. This dissertation seeks to address this gap by proposing novel architectures that integrate the domain-specific constraints of medical imaging into the DNN model and explanation design.
Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology(毛拉纳·阿扎德国家理工学院)
Automatic and rapid screening of COVID-19 from the chest X-ray images has become an urgent need in this pandemic situation of SARS-CoV-2 worldwide in 2020. However, accurate and reliable screening of patients is a massive challenge due to the discrepancy between COVID-19 and other viral pneumonia in X-ray images. In this paper, we design a new stacked convolutional neural network model for the automatic diagnosis of COVID-19 disease from the chest X-ray images. We obtain different sub-models from the VGG19 and developed a 30-layered CNN model (named as CovNet30) during the training, and obtain…
We introduce a new dataset called Synthetic COVID-19 Chest X-ray Dataset for training machine learning models. The dataset consists of 21,295 synthetic COVID-19 chest X-ray images to be used for computer-aided diagnosis. These images, generated via an unsupervised domain adaptation approach, are of high quality. We find that the synthetic images not only improve performance of various deep learning architectures when used as additional training data under heavy imbalance conditions, but also detect the target class with high confidence. We also find that comparable performance can also be achi…
Accurate diagnosis and prognosis of Alzheimer's disease are crucial to develop new therapies and reduce the associated costs. Recently, with the advances of convolutional neural networks, methods have been proposed to automate these two tasks using structural MRI. However, these methods often suffer from lack of interpretability, generalization, and can be limited in terms of performance. In this paper, we propose a novel deep framework designed to overcome these limitations. Our framework consists of two stages. In the first stage, we propose a deep grading model to extract meaningful feature…
Recent developments in medical imaging with Deep Learning presents evidence of automated diagnosis and prognosis. It can also be a complement to currently available diagnosis methods. Deep Learning can be leveraged for diagnosis, severity prediction, intubation support prediction and many similar tasks. We present prediction of intubation support requirement for patients from the Chest X-ray using Deep representation learning. We release our source code publicly at https://github.com/aniketmaurya/covid-research.
University of Virginia(弗吉尼亚大学);Columbia University(哥伦比亚大学)
Eosinophilic Esophagitis (EoE) is an inflammatory esophageal disease which is increasing in prevalence. The diagnostic gold-standard involves manual review of a patient's biopsy tissue sample by a clinical pathologist for the presence of 15 or greater eosinophils within a single high-power field (400x magnification). Diagnosing EoE can be a cumbersome process with added difficulty for assessing the severity and progression of disease. We propose an automated approach for quantifying eosinophils using deep image segmentation. A U-Net model and post-processing system are applied to generate eosi…
Skin cancer is one of the most threatening diseases worldwide. However, diagnosing skin cancer correctly is challenging. Recently, deep learning algorithms have emerged to achieve excellent performance on various tasks. Particularly, they have been applied to the skin disease diagnosis tasks. In this paper, we present a review on deep learning methods and their applications in skin disease diagnosis. We first present a brief introduction to skin diseases and image acquisition methods in dermatology, and list several publicly available skin datasets for training and testing algorithms. Then, we…
A foundation model for generalizable disease diagnosis in chest X-ray images
Centre for Perceptual and Interactive Intelligence, the Chinese University of Hong Kong(香港中文大学感知与交互智能中心);Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory(上海人工智能实验室);SenseTime Research(商汤科技研究院);Department of Electronic Engineering, the Chinese University of Hong Kong(香港中文大学电子工程系)
University of Waterloo(滑铁卢大学);Medical Research Foundation(医学研究基金会);Sankara Nethralaya(桑卡拉·内特拉拉亚眼科医院)
Background: The lack of explanations for the decisions made by algorithms such as deep learning has hampered their acceptance by the clinical community despite highly accurate results on multiple problems. Recently, attribution methods have emerged for explaining deep learning models, and they have been tested on medical imaging problems. The performance of attribution methods is compared on standard machine learning datasets and not on medical images. In this study, we perform a comparative analysis to determine the most suitable explainability method for retinal OCT diagnosis. Methods: A com…
Skeleton-Guided Diffusion Model for Accurate Foot X-ray Synthesis in Hallux Valgus Diagnosis
Xidian University(西安电子科技大学);Beijing Tongren Hospital(北京同仁医院);Capital Medical University(首都医科大学);Norwegian University of Science and Technology(挪威科学技术大学);Xi’an Jiaotong–Liverpool University(西安交大利物浦大学);Chongqing Jiaotong University(重庆交通大学)
针对拇外翻负重足部 X 射线合成中保真度与骨骼一致性不足的问题,提出 SCCDM 骨骼约束条件扩散模型及 KCC 评估方法,显著提升 SSIM、PSNR 并验证临床适用性。
Introducing automated Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) diagnosis into Ethiopia is still a challenging task, despite recent reports that present trained Deep Learning (DL) based DR classifiers surpassing manual graders. This is mainly because of the expensive cost of conventional retinal imaging devices used in DL based classifiers. Current approaches that provide mobile based binary classification of DR, and the way towards a cheaper and offline multi-class classification of DR will be discussed in this paper.
University of Turin(都灵大学);Azienda Ospedaliera Città della Salute e della Scienza Presidio Molinette(健康与科学城医院莫利内特分院);AOU San Luigi Gonzaga(圣路易吉·贡扎加大学医院)
Early screening of patients is a critical issue in order to assess immediate and fast responses against the spread of COVID-19. The use of nasopharyngeal swabs has been considered the most viable approach; however, the result is not immediate or, in the case of fast exams, sufficiently accurate. Using Chest X-Ray (CXR) imaging for early screening potentially provides faster and more accurate response; however, diagnosing COVID from CXRs is hard and we should rely on deep learning support, whose decision process is, on the other hand, "black-boxed" and, for such reason, untrustworthy. We propos…
Ferdowsi University of Mashhad(马什哈德费尔多西大学);University of Kufa(库法大学)
Propose: Troubling countries one after another, the COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically affected the health and well-being of the world's population. The disease may continue to persist more extensively due to the increasing number of new cases daily, the rapid spread of the virus, and delay in the PCR analysis results. Therefore, it is necessary to consider developing assistive methods for detecting and diagnosing the COVID-19 to eradicate the spread of the novel coronavirus among people. Based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs), automated detection systems have shown promising results of…
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi(印度德里理工学院);Teleradiology Solutions(远程放射学解决方案公司);CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology(CSIR基因组学与整合生物学研究所);Christian Medical College(基督教医学院)
Background and Objective: Tuberculosis (TB) is a significant public health issue and a leading cause of death worldwide. Millions of deaths can be averted by early diagnosis and successful treatment of TB patients. Automated diagnosis of TB holds vast potential to assist medical experts in expediting and improving its diagnosis, especially in developing countries like India, where there is a shortage of trained medical experts and radiologists. To date, several deep learning based methods for automated detection of TB from chest radiographs have been proposed. However, the performance of a few…
Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen(香港中文大学(深圳));Shenzhen Research Institute of Big Data(深圳市大数据研究院)
Accurate analysis of the fibrosis stage plays very important roles in follow-up of patients with chronic hepatitis B infection. In this paper, a deep learning framework is presented for automatically liver fibrosis prediction. On contrary of previous works, our approach can take use of the information provided by multiple ultrasound images. An indicator-guided learning mechanism is further proposed to ease the training of the proposed model. This follows the workflow of clinical diagnosis and make the prediction procedure interpretable. To support the training, a dataset is well-collected whic…
Maastricht University Medical Centre+(马斯特里赫特大学医学中心+);GROW School for Oncology and Developmental Biology(GROW肿瘤学与发育生物学学院)
Early diagnosis of lung cancer is a key intervention for the treatment of lung cancer computer aided diagnosis (CAD) can play a crucial role. However, most published CAD methods treat lung cancer diagnosis as a lung nodule classification problem, which does not reflect clinical practice, where clinicians diagnose a patient based on a set of images of nodules, instead of one specific nodule. Besides, the low interpretability of the output provided by these methods presents an important barrier for their adoption. In this article, we treat lung cancer diagnosis as a multiple instance learning (M…
Christian Brothers University(基督教兄弟大学);University of Dayton(代顿大学)
With a Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) case count exceeding 10 million worldwide, there is an increased need for a diagnostic capability. The main variables in increasing diagnostic capability are reduced cost, turnaround or diagnosis time, and upfront equipment cost and accessibility. Two candidates for machine learning COVID-19 diagnosis are Computed Tomography (CT) scans and plain chest X-rays. While CT scans score higher in sensitivity, they have a higher cost, maintenance requirement, and turnaround time as compared to plain chest X-rays. The use of portable chest X-radiograph (CXR) is rec…
One of the critical tools for early detection and subsequent evaluation of the incidence of lung diseases is chest radiography. This study presents a real-world implementation of a convolutional neural network (CNN) based Carebot Covid app to detect COVID-19 from chest X-ray (CXR) images. Our proposed model takes the form of a simple and intuitive application. Used CNN can be deployed as a STOW-RS prediction endpoint for direct implementation into DICOM viewers. The results of this study show that the deep learning model based on DenseNet and ResNet architecture can detect SARS-CoV-2 from CXR …
The infection of respiratory coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) starts with the upper respiratory tract and as the virus grows, the infection can progress to lungs and develop pneumonia. The conventional way of COVID-19 diagnosis is reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR), which is less sensitive during early stages; especially if the patient is asymptomatic, which may further cause more severe pneumonia. In this context, several deep learning models have been proposed to identify pulmonary infections using publicly available chest X-ray (CXR) image datasets for early diagnos…
Télécom SudParis(高等电信学院(巴黎综合理工学院成员));Institut Polytechnique de Paris(巴黎综合理工学院)
We compare Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNN) frameworks, namely AlexNet and VGGNet, for the classification of healthy and malaria-infected cells in large, grayscale, low quality and low resolution microscopic images, in the case only a small training set is available. Experimental results deliver promising results on the path to quick, automatic and precise classification in unstained images.
In this paper, our focus is on constructing models to assist a clinician in the diagnosis of COVID-19 patients in situations where it is easier and cheaper to obtain X-ray data than to obtain high-quality images like those from CT scans. Deep neural networks have repeatedly been shown to be capable of constructing highly predictive models for disease detection directly from image data. However, their use in assisting clinicians has repeatedly hit a stumbling block due to their black-box nature. Some of this difficulty can be alleviated if predictions were accompanied by explanations expressed …
Beijing Institute of Technology(北京理工大学);Xuanwu Hospital, Capital Medical University(首都医科大学宣武医院);National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College(中国医学科学院北京协和医学院肿瘤医院(国家癌症中心/国家肿瘤临床医学研究中心))
Current Computer-Aided Diagnosis (CAD) methods mainly depend on medical images. The clinical information, which usually needs to be considered in practical clinical diagnosis, has not been fully employed in CAD. In this paper, we propose a novel deep learning-based method for fusing Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)/Computed Tomography (CT) images and clinical information for diagnostic tasks. Two paths of neural layers are performed to extract image features and clinical features, respectively, and at the same time clinical features are employed as the attention to guide the extraction of imag…
Corona virus or COVID-19 is a pandemic illness, which has influenced more than million of causalities worldwide and infected a few large number of individuals .Innovative instrument empowering quick screening of the COVID-19 contamination with high precision can be critically useful to the medical care experts. The primary clinical device presently being used for the analysis of COVID-19 is the Reverse record polymerase chain response as known as RT-PCR, which is costly, less-delicate and requires specific clinical work force. X-Ray imaging is an effectively available apparatus that can be a g…
Peking University Third Hospital(北京大学第三医院);Engineering Research Center of Bone and Joint Precision Medicine, Ministry of Education(教育部骨关节精准医学工程研究中心);University of Toronto(多伦多大学)
As the first diagnostic imaging modality of avascular necrosis of the femoral head (AVNFH), accurately staging AVNFH from a plain radiograph is critical yet challenging for orthopedists. Thus, we propose a deep learning-based AVNFH diagnosis system (AVN-net). The proposed AVN-net reads plain radiographs of the pelvis, conducts diagnosis, and visualizes results automatically. Deep convolutional neural networks are trained to provide an end-to-end diagnosis solution, covering tasks of femoral head detection, exam-view identification, side classification, AVNFH diagnosis, and key clinical notes g…
COVID-19, due to its accelerated spread has brought in the need to use assistive tools for faster diagnosis in addition to typical lab swab testing. Chest X-Rays for COVID cases tend to show changes in the lungs such as ground glass opacities and peripheral consolidations which can be detected by deep neural networks. However, traditional convolutional networks use point estimate for predictions, lacking in capture of uncertainty, which makes them less reliable for adoption. There have been several works so far in predicting COVID positive cases with chest X-Rays. However, not much has been ex…
Because the infection by Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (COVID-19) causes the pneumonia-like effect in the lungs, the examination of chest x-rays can help to diagnose the diseases. For automatic analysis of images, they are represented in machines by a set of semantic features. Deep Learning (DL) models are widely used to extract features from images. General deep features may not be appropriate to represent chest x-rays as they have a few semantic regions. Though the Bag of Visual Words (BoVW) based features are shown to be more appropriate for x-ray type of images, existing …
National Institute of Technology Karnataka Surathkal(卡纳塔克邦国家技术学院苏拉特卡尔分校)
In clinical diagnosis, diagnostic images that are obtained from the scanning devices serve as preliminary evidence for further investigation in the process of delivering quality healthcare. However, often the medical image may contain fault artifacts, introduced due to noise, blur and faulty equipment. The reason for this may be the low-quality or older scanning devices, the test environment or technicians lack of training etc; however, the net result is that the process of fast and reliable diagnosis is hampered. Resolving these issues automatically can have a significant positive impact in a…
Multi-Scale Feature Fusion using Parallel-Attention Block for COVID-19 Chest X-ray Diagnosis
Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey(罗格斯新泽西癌症研究所);Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School(罗格斯罗伯特·伍德·约翰逊医学院);The University of British Columbia(不列颠哥伦比亚大学)
Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences(沙希德·贝赫什提医科大学);Student Research Committee(学生研究委员会);School of Allied Medical Science(Allied Medical Science学院);Department of Health Information Technology and Management(卫生信息技术与管理系)
Purpose: Early detection and diagnosis of Covid-19 and accurate separation of patients with non-Covid-19 cases at the lowest cost and in the early stages of the disease are one of the main challenges in the epidemic of Covid-19. Concerning the novelty of the disease, the diagnostic methods based on radiological images suffer shortcomings despite their many uses in diagnostic centers. Accordingly, medical and computer researchers tended to use machine-learning models to analyze radiology images. Methods: Present systematic review was conducted by searching three databases of PubMed, Scopus, and…
Malaria is considered one of the deadliest diseases in today world which causes thousands of deaths per year. The parasites responsible for malaria are scientifically known as Plasmodium which infects the red blood cells in human beings. The parasites are transmitted by a female class of mosquitos known as Anopheles. The diagnosis of malaria requires identification and manual counting of parasitized cells by medical practitioners in microscopic blood smears. Due to the unavailability of resources, its diagnostic accuracy is largely affected by large scale screening. State of the art Computer-a…
The chest X-ray plays a key role in screening and diagnosis of many lung diseases including the COVID-19. More recently, many works construct deep neural networks (DNNs) for chest X-ray images to realize automated and efficient diagnosis of lung diseases. However, bias field caused by the improper medical image acquisition process widely exists in the chest X-ray images while the robustness of DNNs to the bias field is rarely explored, which definitely poses a threat to the X-ray-based automated diagnosis system. In this paper, we study this problem based on the recent adversarial attack and p…
KAIST(韩国科学技术院);Asan Medical Center(峨山医学中心);University of Ulsan College of Medicine(蔚山大学医学院);Yeungnam University(岭南大学);Kyungpook National University(庆北国立大学);Seoul National University(首尔国立大学)
Although deep learning-based computer-aided diagnosis systems have recently achieved expert-level performance, developing a robust deep learning model requires large, high-quality data with manual annotation, which is expensive to obtain. This situation poses the problem that the chest x-rays collected annually in hospitals cannot be used due to the lack of manual labeling by experts, especially in deprived areas. To address this, here we present a novel deep learning framework that uses knowledge distillation through self-supervised learning and self-training, which shows that the performance…
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology(韩国科学技术院);Asan Medical Center(峨山医院);University of Ulsan College of Medicine(蔚山大学医学院);College of Medicine, Yeungnam University(岭南大学医学院);School of Medicine, Kyungpook National University(庆北国立大学医学院)
Under the global COVID-19 crisis, developing robust diagnosis algorithm for COVID-19 using CXR is hampered by the lack of the well-curated COVID-19 data set, although CXR data with other disease are abundant. This situation is suitable for vision transformer architecture that can exploit the abundant unlabeled data using pre-training. However, the direct use of existing vision transformer that uses the corpus generated by the ResNet is not optimal for correct feature embedding. To mitigate this problem, we propose a novel vision Transformer by using the low-level CXR feature corpus that are ob…
Hybrid Deep Learning Framework for Classification of Kidney CT Images: Diagnosis of Stones, Cysts, and Tumors
School of Engineering & Technology, BML Munjal University(BML Munjal大学工程与技术学院);Center for Advanced Data and Computational Science, BML Munjal University(BML Munjal大学先进数据与计算科学中心)
Concordia University(康考迪亚大学);Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre(桑尼布鲁克健康科学中心);University of Toronto(多伦多大学)
Novel Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has abruptly and undoubtedly changed the world as we know it at the end of the 2nd decade of the 21st century. COVID-19 is extremely contagious and quickly spreading globally making its early diagnosis of paramount importance. Early diagnosis of COVID-19 enables health care professionals and government authorities to break the chain of transition and flatten the epidemic curve. The common type of COVID-19 diagnosis test, however, requires specific equipment and has relatively low sensitivity. Computed tomography (CT) scans and X-ray images, on the other han…
The novel coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) is a respiratory syndrome that resembles pneumonia. The current diagnostic procedure of COVID-19 follows reverse-transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) based approach which however is less sensitive to identify the virus at the initial stage. Hence, a more robust and alternate diagnosis technique is desirable. Recently, with the release of publicly available datasets of corona positive patients comprising of computed tomography (CT) and chest X-ray (CXR) imaging; scientists, researchers and healthcare experts are contributing for faster and autom…
COVID-19 (Coronavirus disease 2019) has been quickly spreading since its outbreak, impacting financial markets and healthcare systems globally. Countries all around the world have adopted a number of extraordinary steps to restrict the spreading virus, where early COVID-19 diagnosis is essential. Medical images such as X-ray images and Computed Tomography scans are becoming one of the main diagnostic tools to combat COVID-19 with the aid of deep learning-based systems. In this survey, we investigate the main contributions of deep learning applications using medical images in fighting against C…