Deep learning with non-medical training used for chest pathology identification

Yaniv Bar; Idit Diamant; Lior Wolf; Hayit Greenspan

doi:10.1117/12.2083124

20 March 2015 Deep learning with non-medical training used for chest pathology identification

Yaniv Bar, Idit Diamant, Lior Wolf, Hayit Greenspan

Proceedings Volume 9414, Medical Imaging 2015: Computer-Aided Diagnosis; 94140V (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2083124
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2015, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

In this work, we examine the strength of deep learning approaches for pathology detection in chest radiograph data. Convolutional neural networks (CNN) deep architecture classification approaches have gained popularity due to their ability to learn mid and high level image representations. We explore the ability of a CNN to identify different types of pathologies in chest x-ray images. Moreover, since very large training sets are generally not available in the medical domain, we explore the feasibility of using a deep learning approach based on non-medical learning. We tested our algorithm on a dataset of 93 images. We use a CNN that was trained with ImageNet, a well-known large scale nonmedical image database. The best performance was achieved using a combination of features extracted from the CNN and a set of low-level features. We obtained an area under curve (AUC) of 0.93 for Right Pleural Effusion detection, 0.89 for Enlarged heart detection and 0.79 for classification between healthy and abnormal chest x-ray, where all pathologies are combined into one large class. This is a first-of-its-kind experiment that shows that deep learning with large scale non-medical image databases may be sufficient for general medical image recognition tasks.

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Yaniv Bar, Idit Diamant, Lior Wolf, and Hayit Greenspan "Deep learning with non-medical training used for chest pathology identification", Proc. SPIE 9414, Medical Imaging 2015: Computer-Aided Diagnosis, 94140V (20 March 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2083124

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