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Deep Learning for Detection and Localization of Thoracic Diseases Using Chest X-Ray Imagery

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Classification of diseases from biomedical images is a fast growing emerging field of research. In this regard, chest X-Rays (CXR) are one of the most widely used medical images to diagnose common heart and lung diseases where previous works have explored the usage of various pre-trained deep learning models to perform the classification. However, these models are very deep, thus use large number of parameters. Moreover, it is still not possible to find readily available access to a practicing radiologist for proper diagnosis from an X-Ray image of chest. Hence, this fact motivated us to conduct this research with the aim to classify CXR images in an automated manner with smaller number of parameters during training for 14 different categories of thoracic diseases and produce heatmap for the corresponding image in order to show the location of abnormality. For the purpose of classification, transfer learning is used with the pre-trained network of Resnet18, while the heatmaps are generated using pooling along the channel dimension and then computing the average of class-wise features. The proposed model contains less parameters to train and provides better performance than the other models present in the literature. The trained model is then validated both quantitatively and visually by producing localized images in the form of heatmaps of the CXR images. Moreover, the dataset and code of this work are provided online (http://www.nitttrkol.ac.in/indrajit/projects/deeplearning-chestxray/).

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This work has been co-supported by the Polish National Science Centre (2014/15/ B/ST6/05082), Foundation for Polish Science (TEAM to DP) and by the grant from the Department of Science and Technology, India under Indo-Polish/Polish-Indo project No.: DST/INT/POL/P-36/2016. The work was co-supported by grant 1U54DK107967-01 Nucleome Positioning System for Spatiotemporal Genome Organization and Regulation within 4DNucleome NIH program.

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Rakshit, S., Saha, I., Wlasnowolski, M., Maulik, U., Plewczynski, D. (2019). Deep Learning for Detection and Localization of Thoracic Diseases Using Chest X-Ray Imagery. In: Rutkowski, L., Scherer, R., Korytkowski, M., Pedrycz, W., Tadeusiewicz, R., Zurada, J. (eds) Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing. ICAISC 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11509. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20915-5_25

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