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Chest X-ray imaging is commonly used to diagnose pneumonia, but accurately localizing the pneumonia-affected regions typically requires detailed pixel-level annotations, which are costly and time consuming to obtain. To address this…

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Localization and characterization of diseases like pneumonia are primary steps in a clinical pipeline, facilitating detailed clinical diagnosis and subsequent treatment planning. Additionally, such location annotated datasets can provide a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-08 Riddhish Bhalodia , Ali Hatamizadeh , Leo Tam , Ziyue Xu , Xiaosong Wang , Evrim Turkbey , Daguang Xu

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

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

Thoracic disease detection from chest radiographs using deep learning methods has been an active area of research in the last decade. Most previous methods attempt to focus on the diseased organs of the image by identifying spatial regions…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-07 Uday Kamal , Mohammad Zunaed , Nusrat Binta Nizam , Taufiq Hasan

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

The detection of weak, spatially distributed anomalies in volumetric medical imaging remains challenging due to the difficulty of integrating subtle signals across non-adjacent regions. This study presents a controlled comparison of sixteen…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Lynn Kandakji , William Woof , Nikolas Pontikos

The scarcity of richly annotated medical images is limiting supervised deep learning based solutions to medical image analysis tasks, such as localizing discriminatory radiomic disease signatures. Therefore, it is desirable to leverage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-10 Saeid Asgari Taghanaki , Mohammad Havaei , Tess Berthier , Francis Dutil , Lisa Di Jorio , Ghassan Hamarneh , Yoshua Bengio

Weakly-supervised action localization aims to recognize and localize action instancese in untrimmed videos with only video-level labels. Most existing models rely on multiple instance learning(MIL), where the predictions of unlabeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Guiqin Wang , Peng Zhao , Cong Zhao , Shusen Yang , Jie Cheng , Luziwei Leng , Jianxing Liao , Qinghai Guo

Chest X-ray is the most common medical imaging exam used to assess multiple pathologies. Automated algorithms and tools have the potential to support the reading workflow, improve efficiency, and reduce reading errors. With the availability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-14 Sebastian Guendel , Sasa Grbic , Bogdan Georgescu , Kevin Zhou , Ludwig Ritschl , Andreas Meier , Dorin Comaniciu

Lung segmentation in chest X-ray images is a critical task in medical image analysis, enabling accurate diagnosis and treatment of various lung diseases. In this paper, we propose a novel approach for lung segmentation by integrating…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-22 Mohammad Ali Labbaf Khaniki , Nazanin Mahjourian , Mohammad Manthouri

Although there have been several recent advances in the application of deep learning algorithms to chest x-ray interpretation, we identify three major challenges for the translation of chest x-ray algorithms to the clinical setting. We…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-12 Pranav Rajpurkar , Anirudh Joshi , Anuj Pareek , Phil Chen , Amirhossein Kiani , Jeremy Irvin , Andrew Y. Ng , Matthew P. Lungren

Locating diseases in chest X-ray images with few careful annotations saves large human effort. Recent works approached this task with innovative weakly-supervised algorithms such as multi-instance learning (MIL) and class activation maps…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-08 Baolian Qi , Gangming Zhao , Xin Wei , Changde Du , Chengwei Pan , Yizhou Yu , Jinpeng Li

Localization of an object within an image is a common task in medical imaging. Learning to localize or detect objects typically requires the collection of data which has been labelled with bounding boxes or similar annotations, which can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Eyal Rozenberg , Daniel Freedman , Alex Bronstein

CXRs are a crucial and extraordinarily common diagnostic tool, leading to heavy research for CAD solutions. However, both high classification accuracy and meaningful model predictions that respect and incorporate clinical taxonomies are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Haomin Chen , Shun Miao , Daguang Xu , Gregory D. Hager , Adam P. Harrison

Chest radiographs are the most commonly performed radiological examinations for lesion detection. Recent advances in deep learning have led to encouraging results in various thoracic disease detection tasks. Particularly, the architecture…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-27 Qing Xu , Wenting Duan

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

Finding automatically multiple lesions in large images is a common problem in medical image analysis. Solving this problem can be challenging if, during optimization, the automated method cannot access information about the location of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-23 Florian Dubost , Hieab Adams , Pinar Yilmaz , Gerda Bortsova , Gijs van Tulder , M. Arfan Ikram , Wiro Niessen , Meike Vernooij , Marleen de Bruijne

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

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…

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