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Medical image annotation is essential for diagnosing diseases, yet manual annotation is time-consuming, costly, and prone to variability among experts. To address these challenges, we propose an automated explainable annotation system that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Basma Nasir , Tehseen Zia , Muhammad Nawaz , Catarina Moreira

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

A commonly adopted approach to carry out detection tasks in medical imaging is to rely on an initial segmentation. However, this approach strongly depends on voxel-wise annotations which are repetitive and time-consuming to draw for medical…

Building a highly accurate predictive model for classification and localization of abnormalities in chest X-rays usually requires a large number of manually annotated labels and pixel regions (bounding boxes) of abnormalities. However, it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Yan Han , Chongyan Chen , Ahmed Tewfik , Benjamin Glicksberg , Ying Ding , Yifan Peng , Zhangyang Wang

Machine learning approaches hold great potential for the automated detection of lung nodules in chest radiographs, but training the algorithms requires vary large amounts of manually annotated images, which are difficult to obtain. Weak…

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

In this work, we exploit the task of joint classification and weakly supervised localization of thoracic diseases from chest radiographs, with only image-level disease labels coupled with disease severity-level (DSL) information of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-20 Yuxing Tang , Xiaosong Wang , Adam P. Harrison , Le Lu , Jing Xiao , Ronald M. Summers

Over the last decade, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have emerged as the leading algorithms in image classification and segmentation. Recent publication of large medical imaging databases have accelerated their use in the biomedical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-11 John McManigle , Raquel Bartz , Lawrence Carin

Eye gaze that reveals human observational patterns has increasingly been incorporated into solutions for vision tasks. Despite recent explorations on leveraging gaze to aid deep networks, few studies exploit gaze as an efficient annotation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Yuan Zhong , Chenhui Tang , Yumeng Yang , Ruoxi Qi , Kang Zhou , Yuqi Gong , Pheng Ann Heng , Janet H. Hsiao , Qi Dou

Chest X-rays are one of the most common radiological examinations in daily clinical routines. Reporting thorax diseases using chest X-rays is often an entry-level task for radiologist trainees. Yet, reading a chest X-ray image remains a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-16 Xiaosong Wang , Yifan Peng , Le Lu , Zhiyong Lu , Ronald M. Summers

Minimizing the need for pixel-level annotated data to train PET lesion detection and segmentation networks is highly desired and can be transformative, given time and cost constraints associated with expert annotations. Current unsupervised…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-18 Shadab Ahamed , Arman Rahmim

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been successfully applied to chest x-ray (CXR) images. Moreover, annotated bounding boxes have been shown to improve the interpretability of a CNN in terms of localizing abnormalities. However, only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-16 Ricardo Bigolin Lanfredi , Joyce D. Schroeder , Tolga Tasdizen

Chest X-ray (CXR) is the most typical diagnostic X-ray examination for screening various thoracic diseases. Automatically localizing lesions from CXR is promising for alleviating radiologists' reading burden. However, CXR datasets are often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-09 Luyang Luo , Hao Chen , Yanning Zhou , Huangjing Lin , Pheng-Ann Pheng

Localization of chest pathologies in chest X-ray images is a challenging task because of their varying sizes and appearances. We propose a novel weakly supervised method to localize chest pathologies using class aware deep multiscale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-28 Suman Sedai , Dwarikanath Mahapatra , Zongyuan Ge , Rajib Chakravorty , Rahil Garnavi

Despite the recent advances in automatically describing image contents, their applications have been mostly limited to image caption datasets containing natural images (e.g., Flickr 30k, MSCOCO). In this paper, we present a deep learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-03-29 Hoo-Chang Shin , Kirk Roberts , Le Lu , Dina Demner-Fushman , Jianhua Yao , Ronald M Summers

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

Natural language explanations provide an inherently human-understandable way to explain black-box models, closely reflecting how radiologists convey their diagnoses in textual reports. Most works explicitly supervise the explanation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Isabel Rio-Torto , Jaime S. Cardoso , Luís F. Teixeira

Medical image datasets and their annotations are not growing as fast as their equivalents in the general domain. This makes translation from the newest, more data-intensive methods that have made a large impact on the vision field…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Tom van Sonsbeek , Xiantong Zhen , Dwarikanath Mahapatra , Marcel Worring

Accurate automatic medical image segmentation relies on high-quality, dense annotations, which are costly and time-consuming. Weakly supervised learning provides a more efficient alternative by leveraging sparse and coarse annotations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Dongdong Meng , Sheng Li , Hao Wu , Suqing Tian , Wenjun Ma , Guoping Wang , Xueqing Yan

Despite the progress in utilizing deep learning to automate chest radiograph interpretation and disease diagnosis tasks, change between sequential Chest X-rays (CXRs) has received limited attention. Monitoring the progression of pathologies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Gaurang Karwande , Amarachi Mbakawe , Joy T. Wu , Leo A. Celi , Mehdi Moradi , Ismini Lourentzou