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Chest radiography remains one of the most widely used imaging modalities for thoracic diagnosis, yet increasing imaging volumes and radiologist workload continue to challenge timely interpretation. In this work, we investigate the use of…

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Methodology · Statistics 2016-12-06 Cheng Zheng , Ran Dai , Parameswaran Hari , Mei-Jie Zhang

The chest X-ray is often utilized for diagnosing common thoracic diseases. In recent years, many approaches have been proposed to handle the problem of automatic diagnosis based on chest X-rays. However, the scarcity of labeled data for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-05 Weizhi Nie , Chen Zhang , Dan Song , Lina Zhao , Yunpeng Bai , Keliang Xie , Anan Liu

Chest X-ray radiography (CXR) is an essential medical imaging technique for disease diagnosis. However, as 2D projectional images, CXRs are limited by structural superposition and hence fail to capture 3D anatomies. This limitation makes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Zefan Yang , Ge Wang , James Hendler , Mannudeep K. Kalra , Pingkun Yan

Uncertainty in the estimation of the causal effect in observational studies is often due to unmeasured confounding, i.e., the presence of unobserved covariates linking treatments and outcomes. Instrumental Variables (IV) are commonly used…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-07-30 M. Usaid Awan , Yameng Liu , Marco Morucci , Sudeepa Roy , Cynthia Rudin , Alexander Volfovsky

Instrumental variable (IV) methods mitigate bias from unobserved confounding in observational causal inference but rely on the availability of a valid instrument, which can often be difficult or infeasible to identify in practice. In this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-08 Frances Dean , Jenna Fields , Radhika Bhalerao , Marie Charpignon , Ahmed Alaa

Artificial intelligence (AI)-based chest X-ray (CXR) interpretation assistants have demonstrated significant progress and are increasingly being applied in clinical settings. However, contemporary medical AI models often adhere to a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Jinquan Guan , Qi Chen , Lizhou Liang , Yuhang Liu , Vu Minh Hieu Phan , Minh-Son To , Jian Chen , Yutong Xie

The chest X-Ray (CXR) is the one of the most common clinical exam used to diagnose thoracic diseases and abnormalities. The volume of CXR scans generated daily in hospitals is huge. Therefore, an automated diagnosis system able to save the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-19 Shuai Zhang , Xiaoyan Xin , Yang Wang , Yachong Guo , Qiuqiao Hao , Xianfeng Yang , Jun Wang , Jian Zhang , Bing Zhang , Wei Wang

Chest radiography is an effective screening tool for diagnosing pulmonary diseases. In computer-aided diagnosis, extracting the relevant region of interest, i.e., isolating the lung region of each radiography image, can be an essential step…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-23 Hilda Azimi , Jianxing Zhang , Pengcheng Xi , Hala Asad , Ashkan Ebadi , Stephane Tremblay , Alexander Wong

The chest X-rays (CXRs) is one of the views most commonly ordered by radiologists (NHS),which is critical for diagnosis of many different thoracic diseases. Accurately detecting thepresence of multiple diseases from CXRs is still a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-27 Hieu H. Pham , Tung T. Le , Dat T. Ngo , Dat Q. Tran , Ha Q. Nguyen

Instrumental variables (IV) regression is widely used to estimate causal treatment effects in settings where receipt of treatment is not fully random, but there exists an instrument that generates exogenous variation in treatment exposure.…

Econometrics · Economics 2021-08-10 Stephen Coussens , Jann Spiess

Longitudinal chest X-ray (CXR) interpretation requires reasoning over disease evolution across multiple patient visits, yet most existing medical VQA benchmarks focus on single images or short-horizon image pairs. We introduce MI-CXR, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Sunghwan Steve Cho , Yunseok Han , Jaeyoung Do

Instrumental variable methods provide a powerful approach to estimating causal effects in the presence of unobserved confounding. But a key challenge when applying them is the reliance on untestable "exclusion" assumptions that rule out any…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-06-23 Jason Hartford , Victor Veitch , Dhanya Sridhar , Kevin Leyton-Brown

Chest X-ray scan is a most often used modality by radiologists to diagnose many chest related diseases in their initial stages. The proposed system aids the radiologists in making decision about the diseases found in the scans more…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-07 Ahmed Rasheed , Muhammad Shahzad Younis , Muhammad Bilal , Maha Rasheed

In intensive care units (ICUs), patients with complex clinical conditions require vigilant monitoring and prompt interventions. Chest X-rays (CXRs) are a vital diagnostic tool, providing insights into clinical trajectories, but their…

Medical image classification models are frequently trained using training datasets derived from multiple data sources. While leveraging multiple data sources is crucial for achieving model generalization, it is important to acknowledge that…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-07 Misgina Tsighe Hagos , Kathleen M. Curran , Brian Mac Namee

Chest X-ray (CXR) is the most frequently ordered imaging test, supporting diverse clinical tasks from thoracic disease detection to postoperative monitoring. However, task-specific classification models are limited in scope, require costly…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-23 Zefan Yang , Xuanang Xu , Jiajin Zhang , Ge Wang , Mannudeep K. Kalra , Pingkun Yan

Chest X-rays are widely used to diagnose thoracic diseases, but the lack of detailed information about these abnormalities makes it challenging to develop accurate automated diagnosis systems, which is crucial for early detection and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 S. M. Nabil Ashraf , Md. Adyelullahil Mamun , Hasnat Md. Abdullah , Md. Golam Rabiul Alam

Clinical classification of chest radiography is particularly challenging for standard machine learning algorithms due to its inherent long-tailed and multi-label nature. However, few attempts take into account the coupled challenges posed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Feng Hong , Tianjie Dai , Jiangchao Yao , Ya Zhang , Yanfeng Wang

Chest radiography has been a recommended procedure for patient triaging and resource management in intensive care units (ICUs) throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. The machine learning efforts to augment this workflow have been long challenged…