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Informative sample generation using class aware generative adversarial networks for classification of chest Xrays
Training robust deep learning (DL) systems for disease detection from medical
images is challenging due to limited images covering different disease types
and severity. The problem is especially acute, where there is a severe class
imbalance. We propose an active learning (AL) framework to select most
informative samples for training our model using a Bayesian neural network.
Informative samples are then used within a novel class aware generative
adversarial network (CAGAN) to generate realistic chest xray images for data
augmentation by transferring characteristics from one class label to another.
Experiments show our proposed AL framework is able to achieve state-of-the-art
performance by using about of the full dataset, thus saving significant
time and effort over conventional methods
Deep Lesion Graphs in the Wild: Relationship Learning and Organization of Significant Radiology Image Findings in a Diverse Large-scale Lesion Database
Radiologists in their daily work routinely find and annotate significant
abnormalities on a large number of radiology images. Such abnormalities, or
lesions, have collected over years and stored in hospitals' picture archiving
and communication systems. However, they are basically unsorted and lack
semantic annotations like type and location. In this paper, we aim to organize
and explore them by learning a deep feature representation for each lesion. A
large-scale and comprehensive dataset, DeepLesion, is introduced for this task.
DeepLesion contains bounding boxes and size measurements of over 32K lesions.
To model their similarity relationship, we leverage multiple supervision
information including types, self-supervised location coordinates and sizes.
They require little manual annotation effort but describe useful attributes of
the lesions. Then, a triplet network is utilized to learn lesion embeddings
with a sequential sampling strategy to depict their hierarchical similarity
structure. Experiments show promising qualitative and quantitative results on
lesion retrieval, clustering, and classification. The learned embeddings can be
further employed to build a lesion graph for various clinically useful
applications. We propose algorithms for intra-patient lesion matching and
missing annotation mining. Experimental results validate their effectiveness.Comment: Accepted by CVPR2018. DeepLesion url adde
Annotating Object Instances with a Polygon-RNN
We propose an approach for semi-automatic annotation of object instances.
While most current methods treat object segmentation as a pixel-labeling
problem, we here cast it as a polygon prediction task, mimicking how most
current datasets have been annotated. In particular, our approach takes as
input an image crop and sequentially produces vertices of the polygon outlining
the object. This allows a human annotator to interfere at any time and correct
a vertex if needed, producing as accurate segmentation as desired by the
annotator. We show that our approach speeds up the annotation process by a
factor of 4.7 across all classes in Cityscapes, while achieving 78.4% agreement
in IoU with original ground-truth, matching the typical agreement between human
annotators. For cars, our speed-up factor is 7.3 for an agreement of 82.2%. We
further show generalization capabilities of our approach to unseen datasets
Machine learning methods for histopathological image analysis
Abundant accumulation of digital histopathological images has led to the
increased demand for their analysis, such as computer-aided diagnosis using
machine learning techniques. However, digital pathological images and related
tasks have some issues to be considered. In this mini-review, we introduce the
application of digital pathological image analysis using machine learning
algorithms, address some problems specific to such analysis, and propose
possible solutions.Comment: 23 pages, 4 figure
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