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Semantic Segmentation of Pathological Lung Tissue with Dilated Fully Convolutional Networks
Early and accurate diagnosis of interstitial lung diseases (ILDs) is crucial
for making treatment decisions, but can be challenging even for experienced
radiologists. The diagnostic procedure is based on the detection and
recognition of the different ILD pathologies in thoracic CT scans, yet their
manifestation often appears similar. In this study, we propose the use of a
deep purely convolutional neural network for the semantic segmentation of ILD
patterns, as the basic component of a computer aided diagnosis (CAD) system for
ILDs. The proposed CNN, which consists of convolutional layers with dilated
filters, takes as input a lung CT image of arbitrary size and outputs the
corresponding label map. We trained and tested the network on a dataset of 172
sparsely annotated CT scans, within a cross-validation scheme. The training was
performed in an end-to-end and semi-supervised fashion, utilizing both labeled
and non-labeled image regions. The experimental results show significant
performance improvement with respect to the state of the art
Self-paced Convolutional Neural Network for Computer Aided Detection in Medical Imaging Analysis
Tissue characterization has long been an important component of Computer
Aided Diagnosis (CAD) systems for automatic lesion detection and further
clinical planning. Motivated by the superior performance of deep learning
methods on various computer vision problems, there has been increasing work
applying deep learning to medical image analysis. However, the development of a
robust and reliable deep learning model for computer-aided diagnosis is still
highly challenging due to the combination of the high heterogeneity in the
medical images and the relative lack of training samples. Specifically,
annotation and labeling of the medical images is much more expensive and
time-consuming than other applications and often involves manual labor from
multiple domain experts. In this work, we propose a multi-stage, self-paced
learning framework utilizing a convolutional neural network (CNN) to classify
Computed Tomography (CT) image patches. The key contribution of this approach
is that we augment the size of training samples by refining the unlabeled
instances with a self-paced learning CNN. By implementing the framework on high
performance computing servers including the NVIDIA DGX1 machine, we obtained
the experimental result, showing that the self-pace boosted network
consistently outperformed the original network even with very scarce manual
labels. The performance gain indicates that applications with limited training
samples such as medical image analysis can benefit from using the proposed
framework.Comment: accepted by 8th International Workshop on Machine Learning in Medical
Imaging (MLMI 2017
Transfer Learning with Deep Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) for Pneumonia Detection using Chest X-ray
Pneumonia is a life-threatening disease, which occurs in the lungs caused by
either bacterial or viral infection. It can be life-endangering if not acted
upon in the right time and thus an early diagnosis of pneumonia is vital. The
aim of this paper is to automatically detect bacterial and viral pneumonia
using digital x-ray images. It provides a detailed report on advances made in
making accurate detection of pneumonia and then presents the methodology
adopted by the authors. Four different pre-trained deep Convolutional Neural
Network (CNN)- AlexNet, ResNet18, DenseNet201, and SqueezeNet were used for
transfer learning. 5247 Bacterial, viral and normal chest x-rays images
underwent preprocessing techniques and the modified images were trained for the
transfer learning based classification task. In this work, the authors have
reported three schemes of classifications: normal vs pneumonia, bacterial vs
viral pneumonia and normal, bacterial and viral pneumonia. The classification
accuracy of normal and pneumonia images, bacterial and viral pneumonia images,
and normal, bacterial and viral pneumonia were 98%, 95%, and 93.3%
respectively. This is the highest accuracy in any scheme than the accuracies
reported in the literature. Therefore, the proposed study can be useful in
faster-diagnosing pneumonia by the radiologist and can help in the fast airport
screening of pneumonia patients.Comment: 13 Figures, 5 tables. arXiv admin note: text overlap with
arXiv:2003.1314
A Survey on Deep Learning in Medical Image Analysis
Deep learning algorithms, in particular convolutional networks, have rapidly
become a methodology of choice for analyzing medical images. This paper reviews
the major deep learning concepts pertinent to medical image analysis and
summarizes over 300 contributions to the field, most of which appeared in the
last year. We survey the use of deep learning for image classification, object
detection, segmentation, registration, and other tasks and provide concise
overviews of studies per application area. Open challenges and directions for
future research are discussed.Comment: Revised survey includes expanded discussion section and reworked
introductory section on common deep architectures. Added missed papers from
before Feb 1st 201
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