English
Related papers

Related papers: Deep Generative Classifiers for Thoracic Disease D…

200 papers

Fast diagnosis and treatment of pneumothorax, a collapsed or dropped lung, is crucial to avoid fatalities. Pneumothorax is typically detected on a chest X-ray image through visual inspection by experienced radiologists. However, the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-12 Antonio Sze-To , Abtin Riasatian , Hamid R. Tizhoosh

Chest x-rays are the most common radiology studies for diagnosing lung and heart disease. Hence, a system for automated pre-reporting of pathologic findings on chest x-rays would greatly enhance radiologists' productivity. To this end, we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-15 Adora M. DSouza , Anas Z. Abidin , Axel Wismüller

We propose a deep learning based method for classification of commonly occurring pathologies in chest X-ray images. The vast number of publicly available chest X-ray images provides the data necessary for successfully employing deep…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-24 Mohammad S. Majdi , Khalil N. Salman , Michael F. Morris , Nirav C. Merchant , Jeffrey J. Rodriguez

Objective: Computer-aided disease diagnosis and prognosis based on medical images is a rapidly emerging field. Many Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) architectures have been developed by researchers for disease classification and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-27 Md. Iqbal Hossain , Mohammad Zunaed , Md. Kawsar Ahmed , S. M. Jawwad Hossain , Anwarul Hasan , Taufiq Hasan

In this paper, we explore the feasibility of using generative models, specifically Progressive Growing GANs (PG-GANs) and Stable Diffusion fine-tuning, to generate synthetic chest X-ray images for medical diagnosis purposes. Due to ethical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-31 Muhammad Danyal Malik , Danish Humair

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

The ability to predict lung and heart based diseases using deep learning techniques is central to many researchers, particularly in the medical field around the world. In this paper, we present a unique outlook of a very familiar problem of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Sairamvinay Vijayaraghavan , David Haddad , Shikun Huang , Seongwoo Choi

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

Recent artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms have achieved radiologist-level performance on various medical classification tasks. However, only a few studies addressed the localization of abnormal findings from CXR scans, which is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-09 Hieu H. Pham , Ha Q. Nguyen , Hieu T. Nguyen , Linh T. Le , Lam Khanh

The chest X-ray (CXR) is one of the most common and easy-to-get medical tests used to diagnose common diseases of the chest. Recently, many deep learning-based methods have been proposed that are capable of effectively classifying CXRs.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-23 Weizhi Nie , Chen Zhang , Dan Song , Lina Zhao , Yunpeng Bai , Keliang Xie , Anan Liu

The chest X-ray is one of the most commonly accessible radiological examinations for screening and diagnosis of many lung diseases. A tremendous number of X-ray imaging studies accompanied by radiological reports are accumulated and stored…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-01 Xiaosong Wang , Yifan Peng , Le Lu , Zhiyong Lu , Mohammadhadi Bagheri , Ronald M. Summers

In recent years, people from all over the world are suffering from one of the most severe diseases in history, known as Coronavirus disease 2019, COVID-19 for short. When the virus reaches the lungs, it has a higher probability to cause…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Meng Zhou

We propose a novel deep neural network architecture for normalcy detection in chest X-ray images. This architecture treats the problem as fine-grained binary classification in which the normal cases are well-defined as a class while leaving…

In this work, we investigate the performance across multiple classification models to classify chest X-ray images into four categories of COVID-19, pneumonia, tuberculosis (TB), and normal cases. We leveraged transfer learning techniques…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-29 Alanna Hazlett , Naomi Ohashi , Timothy Rodriguez , Sodiq Adewole

Obtaining automated preliminary read reports for common exams such as chest X-rays will expedite clinical workflows and improve operational efficiencies in hospitals. However, the quality of reports generated by current automated approaches…

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks have consistently proven to achieve state-of-the-art results on a lot of imaging tasks over the past years' majority of which comprise of high-quality data. However, it is important to work on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Snigdha Agarwal , Neelam Sinha

Given image labels as the only supervisory signal, we focus on harvesting, or mining, thoracic disease localizations from chest X-ray images. Harvesting such localizations from existing datasets allows for the creation of improved data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-04 Jinzheng Cai , Le Lu , Adam P. Harrison , Xiaoshuang Shi , Pingjun Chen , Lin Yang

This paper considers the task of thorax disease classification on chest X-ray images. Existing methods generally use the global image as input for network learning. Such a strategy is limited in two aspects. 1) A thorax disease usually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-31 Qingji Guan , Yaping Huang , Zhun Zhong , Zhedong Zheng , Liang Zheng , Yi Yang

Chest radiographs are the most common diagnostic exam in emergency rooms and intensive care units today. Recently, a number of researchers have begun working on large chest X-ray datasets to develop deep learning models for recognition of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Tanveer Syeda-Mahmood , Ph. D , K. C. L Wong , Ph. D , Joy T. Wu , M. D. , M. P. H , Ashutosh Jadhav , Ph. D , Orest Boyko , M. D. Ph. D

Deep neural networks for image-based screening and computer-aided diagnosis have achieved expert-level performance on various medical imaging modalities, including chest radiographs. Recently, several works have indicated that these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Ričards Marcinkevičs , Ece Ozkan , Julia E. Vogt