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Deep neural networks excel in radiological image classification but frequently suffer from poor interpretability, limiting clinical acceptance. We present MedicalPatchNet, an inherently self-explainable architecture for chest X-ray…

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Deep Learning has advanced significantly in medical applications, aiding disease diagnosis in Chest X-ray images. However, expanding model capabilities with new data remains a challenge, which Continual Learning (CL) aims to address.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-08 Marina Ceccon , Davide Dalle Pezze , Alessandro Fabris , Gian Antonio Susto

To reduce the amount of required labeled data for lung disease severity classification from chest X-rays (CXRs) under class imbalance, this study applied deep active learning with a Bayesian Neural Network (BNN) approximation and weighted…

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This work aims to analyze standard evaluation practices adopted by the research community when assessing chest x-ray classifiers, particularly focusing on the impact of class imbalance in such appraisals. Our analysis considers a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Candelaria Mosquera , Luciana Ferrer , Diego Milone , Daniel Luna , Enzo Ferrante

Since the release of the original CheXpert paper five years ago, CheXpert has become one of the most widely used and cited clinical AI datasets. The emergence of vision language models has sparked an increase in demands for sharing reports…

Chest X-rays is one of the most commonly available and affordable radiological examinations in clinical practice. While detecting thoracic diseases on chest X-rays is still a challenging task for machine intelligence, due to 1) the highly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-18 Chaochao Yan , Jiawen Yao , Ruoyu Li , Zheng Xu , Junzhou Huang

Machine learning and artificial intelligence are fast-growing fields of research in which data is used to train algorithms, learn patterns, and make predictions. This approach helps to solve seemingly intricate problems with significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Shereiff Garrett , Abhinav Adhikari , Sarina Gautam , DaShawn Marquis Morris , Chandra Mani Adhikari

The task of classifying X-ray data is a problem of both theoretical and clinical interest. Whilst supervised deep learning methods rely upon huge amounts of labelled data, the critical problem of achieving a good classification accuracy…

The widely used ChestX-ray14 dataset addresses an important medical image classification problem and has the following caveats: 1) many lung pathologies are visually similar, 2) a variant of diseases including lung cancer, tuberculosis, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-26 Zongyuan Ge , Dwarikanath Mahapatra , Suman Sedai , Rahil Garnavi , Rajib Chakravorty

Privacy-preserving machine learning aims to train models on private data without leaking sensitive information. Differential privacy (DP) is considered the gold standard framework for privacy-preserving training, as it provides formal…

To facilitate both the detection and the interpretation of findings in chest X-rays, comparison with a previous image of the same patient is very valuable to radiologists. Today, the most common approach for deep learning methods to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-25 Astrid Berg , Eva Vandersmissen , Maria Wimmer , David Major , Theresa Neubauer , Dimitrios Lenis , Jeroen Cant , Annemiek Snoeckx , Katja Bühler

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

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 single institutions, failing to…

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Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) models have demonstrated superior performance across various visual tasks including medical image classification. However, fairness concerns, including demographic biases, have received limited…

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Chest X-rays play a pivotal role in diagnosing respiratory diseases such as pneumonia, tuberculosis, and COVID-19, which are prevalent and present unique diagnostic challenges due to overlapping visual features and variability in image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-27 Yiming Lei , Michael Nguyen , Tzu Chia Liu , Hyounkyun Oh

Radiologists are in short supply globally, and deep learning models offer a promising solution to address this shortage as part of clinical decision-support systems. However, training such models often requires expensive and time-consuming…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Alessandro Wollek , Philip Haitzer , Thomas Sedlmeyr , Sardi Hyska , Johannes Rueckel , Bastian Sabel , Michael Ingrisch , Tobias Lasser

We propose a data collecting and annotation pipeline that extracts information from Vietnamese radiology reports to provide accurate labels for chest X-ray (CXR) images. This can benefit Vietnamese radiologists and clinicians by annotating…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-11 Thao T. B. Nguyen , Tam M. Vo , Thang V. Nguyen , Hieu H. Pham , Ha Q. Nguyen

We systematically evaluate the performance of deep learning models in the presence of diseases not labeled for or present during training. First, we evaluate whether deep learning models trained on a subset of diseases (seen diseases) can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Siyu Shi , Ishaan Malhi , Kevin Tran , Andrew Y. Ng , Pranav Rajpurkar

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…

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We investigate performance disparities in deep classifiers. We find that the ability of classifiers to separate individuals into subgroups varies substantially across medical imaging modalities and protected characteristics; crucially, we…

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