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The limited availability of annotated data presents a major challenge for applying deep learning methods to medical image analysis. Few-shot learning methods aim to recognize new classes from only a small number of labeled examples. These…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Berenice Montalvo-Lezama , Gibran Fuentes-Pineda

In this paper we propose a reinforcement learning based weakly supervised system for localisation. We train a controller function to localise regions of interest within an image by introducing a novel reward definition that utilises…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Martynas Pocius , Wen Yan , Dean C. Barratt , Mark Emberton , Matthew J. Clarkson , Yipeng Hu , Shaheer U. Saeed

Chest X-ray (CXR) is the most frequently ordered imaging test, supporting diverse clinical tasks from thoracic disease detection to postoperative monitoring. However, task-specific classification models are limited in scope, require costly…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-23 Zefan Yang , Xuanang Xu , Jiajin Zhang , Ge Wang , Mannudeep K. Kalra , Pingkun Yan

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

Can one learn to diagnose COVID-19 under extreme minimal supervision? Since the outbreak of the novel COVID-19 there has been a rush for developing Artificial Intelligence techniques for expert-level disease identification on Chest X-ray…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Angelica I Aviles-Rivero , Philip Sellars , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb , Nicolas Papadakis

Recently, there have been several successful deep learning approaches for automatically classifying chest X-ray images into different disease categories. However, there is not yet a comprehensive vulnerability analysis of these models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Saeid Asgari Taghanaki , Arkadeep Das , Ghassan Hamarneh

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

Chest radiography (CXR) is the most widely-used thoracic clinical imaging modality and is crucial for guiding the management of cardiothoracic conditions. The detection of specific CXR findings has been the main focus of several artificial…

Chest X-ray (CXR) is the most common X-ray examination performed in daily clinical practice for the diagnosis of various heart and lung abnormalities. The large amount of data to be read and reported, with 100+ studies per day for a single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-17 Sebastian Guendel , Florin C. Ghesu , Sasa Grbic , Eli Gibson , Bogdan Georgescu , Andreas Maier , Dorin Comaniciu

Vulnerability to adversarial attacks is a well-known weakness of Deep Neural Networks. While most of the studies focus on natural images with standardized benchmarks like ImageNet and CIFAR, little research has considered real world…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-19 Salah Ghamizi , Maxime Cordy , Michail Papadakis , Yves Le Traon

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

Chest X-Rays (CXRs) are widely used for diagnosing abnormalities in the heart and lung area. Automatically detecting these abnormalities with high accuracy could greatly enhance real world diagnosis processes. Lack of standard publicly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-28 Mohammad Tariqul Islam , Md Abdul Aowal , Ahmed Tahseen Minhaz , Khalid Ashraf

Purpose: Limited studies exploring concrete methods or approaches to tackle and enhance model fairness in the radiology domain. Our proposed AI model utilizes supervised contrastive learning to minimize bias in CXR diagnosis. Materials and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-30 Mingquan Lin , Tianhao Li , Zhaoyi Sun , Gregory Holste , Ying Ding , Fei Wang , George Shih , Yifan Peng

Tuberculosis (TB) is a chronic lung disease that occurs due to bacterial infection and is one of the top 10 leading causes of death. Accurate and early detection of TB is very important, otherwise, it could be life-threatening. In this…

Chest X-ray (CXR) is frequently employed in emergency departments and intensive care units to verify the proper placement of central lines and tubes and to rule out related complications. The automation of the X-ray reading process can be a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-07 Francesca Boccardi , Axel Saalbach , Heinrich Schulz , Samuele Salti , Ilyas Sirazitdinov

Tuberculosis (TB) is still recognized as one of the leading causes of death worldwide. Recent advances in deep learning (DL) have shown to enhance radiologists' ability to interpret chest X-ray (CXR) images accurately and with fewer errors,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-06 Daniel Capellán-Martín , Juan J. Gómez-Valverde , David Bermejo-Peláez , María J. Ledesma-Carbayo

The high cost of generating expert annotations, poses a strong limitation for supervised machine learning methods in medical imaging. Weakly supervised methods may provide a solution to this tangle. In this study, we propose a novel deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Ran Bakalo , Rami Ben-Ari , Jacob Goldberger

Machine learning systems have received much attention recently for their ability to achieve expert-level performance on clinical tasks, particularly in medical imaging. Here, we examine the extent to which state-of-the-art deep learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Laleh Seyyed-Kalantari , Guanxiong Liu , Matthew McDermott , Irene Y. Chen , Marzyeh Ghassemi

Data is one of the essential ingredients to power deep learning research. Small datasets, especially specific to medical institutes, bring challenges to deep learning training stage. This work aims to develop a practical deep multimodal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Faik Aydin , Maggie Zhang , Michelle Ananda-Rajah , Gholamreza Haffari

The interpretation of chest X-rays (CXRs) poses significant challenges, particularly in achieving accurate multi-label pathology classification and spatial localization. These tasks demand different levels of annotation granularity but are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-19 John M. Statheros , Hairong Wang , Richard Klein