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The automatic diagnosis of chest diseases is a popular and challenging task. Most current methods are based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs), which focus on local features while neglecting global features. Recently, self-attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Xinran Li , Yu Liu , Xiujuan Xu , Xiaowei Zhao

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…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-03 Changhee Han , Takayuki Okamoto , Koichi Takeuchi , Dimitris Katsios , Andrey Grushnikov , Masaaki Kobayashi , Antoine Choppin , Yutaka Kurashina , Yuki Shimahara

Chest radiography is a widely used imaging modality for thoracic disease diagnosis, yet its conventional interpretation remains time-consuming and heavily dependent on expert knowledge. While deep learning has improved diagnostic efficiency…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Duy Nguyen Huu , Duy Hoang Khuong , Ngu Huynh Cong Viet

Medical datasets are often highly imbalanced with over-representation of common medical problems and a paucity of data from rare conditions. We propose simulation of pathology in images to overcome the above limitations. Using chest X-rays…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-13 Hojjat Salehinejad , Shahrokh Valaee , Tim Dowdell , Errol Colak , Joseph Barfett

Multi-label radiography image classification has long been a topic of interest in neural networks research. In this paper, we intend to classify such images using convolution neural networks with novel localization techniques. We will use…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-08 Lalit Pant , Shubham Arora

This study aims to automatically diagnose thoracic diseases depicted on the chest x-ray (CXR) images using deep convolutional neural networks. The existing methods generally used the entire CXR images for training purposes, but this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-03 Han Liu , Lei Wang , Yandong Nan , Faguang Jin , Qi Wang , Jiantao Pu

Chest radiograph (CXR) interpretation in pediatric patients is error-prone and requires a high level of understanding of radiologic expertise. Recently, deep convolutional neural networks (D-CNNs) have shown remarkable performance in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-29 Thanh T. Tran , Hieu H. Pham , Thang V. Nguyen , Tung T. Le , Hieu T. Nguyen , Ha Q. Nguyen

We propose a novel attention gate (AG) model for medical imaging that automatically learns to focus on target structures of varying shapes and sizes. Models trained with AGs implicitly learn to suppress irrelevant regions in an input image…

Pulmonary pathologies are a significant global health concern, often leading to fatal outcomes if not diagnosed and treated promptly. Chest radiography serves as a primary diagnostic tool, but the availability of experienced radiologists…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-17 Abdelbaki Souid , Mohamed Hamroun , Soufiene Ben Othman , Hedi Sakli , Naceur Abdelkarim

Visual explanation enables human to understand the decision making of Deep Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), but it is insufficient to contribute the performance improvement. In this paper, we focus on the attention map for visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-11 Hiroshi Fukui , Tsubasa Hirakawa , Takayoshi Yamashita , Hironobu Fujiyoshi

Chest radiographs are primarily employed for the screening of pulmonary and cardio-/thoracic conditions. Being undertaken at primary healthcare centers, they require the presence of an on-premise reporting Radiologist, which is a challenge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-27 Arka Mitra , Arunava Chakravarty , Nirmalya Ghosh , Tandra Sarkar , Ramanathan Sethuraman , Debdoot Sheet

Despite much promising research in the area of artificial intelligence for medical image diagnosis, there has been no large-scale validation study done in Thailand to confirm the accuracy and utility of such algorithms when applied to local…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-13 Isarun Chamveha , Trongtum Tongdee , Pairash Saiviroonporn , Warasinee Chaisangmongkon

Lung diseases such as COVID-19, tuberculosis (TB), and pneumonia continue to be serious global health concerns that affect millions of people worldwide. In medical practice, chest X-ray examinations have emerged as the norm for diagnosing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-11 Aditya Kulkarni , Guruprasad Parasnis , Harish Balasubramanian , Vansh Jain , Anmol Chokshi , Reena Sonkusare

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…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-22 Daniel Kvak , Marian Bendik , Anna Chromcova

We present AURA-net, a convolutional neural network (CNN) for the segmentation of phase-contrast microscopy images. AURA-net uses transfer learning to accelerate training and Attention mechanisms to help the network focus on relevant image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-03 Ethan Cohen , Virginie Uhlmann

Chest X-ray is one of the most accessible medical imaging technique for diagnosis of multiple diseases. With the availability of ChestX-ray14, which is a massive dataset of chest X-ray images and provides annotations for 14 thoracic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-27 Pulkit Kumar , Monika Grewal , Muktabh Mayank Srivastava

Chest X-ray becomes one of the most common medical diagnoses due to its noninvasiveness. The number of chest X-ray images has skyrocketed, but reading chest X-rays still have been manually performed by radiologists, which creates huge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Yan Han , Chongyan Chen , Liyan Tang , Mingquan Lin , Ajay Jaiswal , Song Wang , Ahmed Tewfik , George Shih , Ying Ding , Yifan Peng

Early diagnosis of interstitial lung diseases is crucial for their treatment, but even experienced physicians find it difficult, as their clinical manifestations are similar. In order to assist with the diagnosis, computer-aided diagnosis…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-13 Stergios Christodoulidis , Marios Anthimopoulos , Lukas Ebner , Andreas Christe , Stavroula Mougiakakou

This paper delves into the challenges and advancements in the field of medical image segmentation, particularly focusing on breast cancer diagnosis. The authors propose a novel Transformer-based segmentation model that addresses the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-20 Weijie He , Runyuan Bao , Yiru Cang , Jianjun Wei , Yang Zhang , Jiacheng Hu

Traditional methods of identifying pathologies in X-ray images rely heavily on skilled human interpretation and are often time-consuming. The advent of deep learning techniques has enabled the development of automated disease diagnosis…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-02 Dipkamal Bhusal , Sanjeeb Prasad Panday