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Purpose: Artificial intelligence (AI) solutions for medical diagnosis require thorough evaluation to demonstrate that performance is maintained for all patient sub-groups and to ensure that proposed improvements in care will be delivered…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-20 Tom Dyer , Jordan Smith , Gaetan Dissez , Nicole Tay , Qaiser Malik , Tom Naunton Morgan , Paul Williams , Liliana Garcia-Mondragon , George Pearse , Simon Rasalingham

Over the last few years, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have dominated the field of computer vision thanks to their ability to extract features and their outstanding performance in classification problems, for example in the automatic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-01 Helena Liz , Javier Huertas-Tato , Manuel Sánchez-Montañés , Javier Del Ser , David Camacho

Purpose: Interpreting chest radiographs (CXR) remains challenging due to the ambiguity of overlapping structures such as the lungs, heart, and bones. To address this issue, we propose a novel method for extracting fine-grained anatomical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-08 Constantin Seibold , Alexander Jaus , Matthias A. Fink , Moon Kim , Simon Reiß , Ken Herrmann , Jens Kleesiek , Rainer Stiefelhagen

Classifying chest radiographs is a time-consuming and challenging task, even for experienced radiologists. This provides an area for improvement due to the difficulty in precisely distinguishing between conditions such as pleural effusion,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Maria Efimovich , Jayden Lim , Vedant Mehta , Ethan Poon

Chest X-ray is the most common test among medical imaging modalities. It is applied for detection and differentiation of, among others, lung cancer, tuberculosis, and pneumonia, the last with importance due to the COVID-19 disease.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-24 Gusztáv Gaál , Balázs Maga , András Lukács

Overconfidence in deep learning models poses a significant risk in high-stakes medical imaging tasks, particularly in multi-label classification of chest X-rays, where multiple co-occurring pathologies must be detected simultaneously. This…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-15 Yehudit Aperstein , Amit Tzahar , Alon Gottlib , Tal Verber , Ravit Shagan Damti , Alexander Apartsin

Computed tomography (CT) is a key imaging modality for diagnosis, yet its clinical utility is marred by high radiation exposure and long turnaround times, restricting its use for larger-scale screening. Although chest radiography (CXR) is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Jianzhong You , Yuan Gao , Sangwook Kim , Chris Mcintosh

Purpose:Chest X-ray (CXR) is an essential tool and one of the most prescribed imaging to detect pulmonary abnormalities, with a yearly estimate of over 2 billion imaging performed worldwide. However, the accurate and timely diagnosis of TB…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Subhankar Chattoraj , Bhargava Reddy , Manoj Tadepalli , Preetham Putha

Chest X-Ray (CXR) examination is a common method for assessing thoracic diseases in clinical applications. While recent advances in deep learning have enhanced the significance of visual analysis for CXR anomaly detection, current methods…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-21 Haoqi Ni , Ximiao Zhang , Min Xu , Ning Lang , Xiuzhuang Zhou

Chest X-Ray (CXR) is one of the most common diagnostic techniques used in everyday clinical practice all around the world. We hereby present a work which intends to investigate and analyse the use of Deep Learning (DL) techniques to extract…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-16 Leonardo Crespi , Daniele Loiacono , Arturo Chiti

The interpretation of medical images is a challenging task, often complicated by the presence of artifacts, occlusions, limited contrast and more. Most notable is the case of chest radiography, where there is a high inter-rater variability…

X-rays are commonly performed imaging tests that use small amounts of radiation to produce pictures of the organs, tissues, and bones of the body. X-rays of the chest are used to detect abnormalities or diseases of the airways, blood…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-01-24 Petros-Pavlos Ypsilantis , Giovanni Montana

Chest X-ray (CXR) interpretation is hindered by the long-tailed distribution of pathologies and the open-world nature of clinical environments. Existing benchmarks often rely on closed-set classes from a single institution, failing to…

We consider the problem of abnormality localization for clinical applications. While deep learning has driven much recent progress in medical imaging, many clinical challenges are not fully addressed, limiting its broader usage. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-24 Xi Ouyang , Srikrishna Karanam , Ziyan Wu , Terrence Chen , Jiayu Huo , Xiang Sean Zhou , Qian Wang , Jie-Zhi Cheng

Deep Learning (DL) approaches have gained prominence in medical imaging for disease diagnosis. Chest X-ray (CXR) classification has emerged as an effective method for detecting various diseases. Among these methodologies, Chest X-ray (CXR)…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-09 Sree Rama Vamsidhar S , Bhargava Satya , Rama Krishna Gorthi

Background: Chest X-ray imaging-based abnormality localization, essential in diagnosing various diseases, faces significant clinical challenges due to complex interpretations and the growing workload of radiologists. While recent advances…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Haoyue Sheng , Linrui Ma , Jean-Francois Samson , Dianbo Liu

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: The multiple chest x-ray datasets released in the last years have ground-truth labels intended for different computer vision tasks, suggesting that performance in automated chest-xray interpretation might improve…

Chest X-Ray imaging is one of the most common radiological tools for detection of various pathologies related to the chest area and lung function. In a clinical setting, automated assessment of chest radiographs has the potential of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-31 David Biesner , Helen Schneider , Benjamin Wulff , Ulrike Attenberger , Rafet Sifa

Radiologists usually observe anatomical regions of chest X-ray images as well as the overall image before making a decision. However, most existing deep learning models only look at the entire X-ray image for classification, failing to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-21 Nkechinyere N. Agu , Joy T. Wu , Hanqing Chao , Ismini Lourentzou , Arjun Sharma , Mehdi Moradi , Pingkun Yan , James Hendler

Chest X-rays (CXR) often reveal rare diseases, demanding precise diagnosis. However, current computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) methods focus on common diseases, leading to inadequate detection of rare conditions due to the absence of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Haoran Lai , Qingsong Yao , Zhiyang He , Xiaodong Tao , S Kevin Zhou