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Learning few-shot chest X-ray diagnosis using images from the published scientific literature
, T.C. Shen, Y. Peng, Z. Lu, R.M. Summers
Published in IEEE Computer Society
2021
Volume: 2021-April
   
Pages: 344 - 348
Abstract
A trained radiologist may learn the visual presentation of a new disease by looking at a few relevant image examples in research articles. However, training a machine learning model in such a manner is an arduous task not only due to the small number of labeled training images but also for the low resolution of such images. We design a few-shot learning method that can diagnose new diseases from chest x-rays utilizing only a few relevant labeled x-ray images from the published literature. Our method uses prior knowledge about other diseases for feature extraction from x-rays of new diseases. We formulate a classifier that is initially trained with a few labeled feature vectors corresponding to low-resolution images from the PubMed Central. The classifier is subsequently re-trained using unlabeled feature vectors corresponding to high-resolution x-ray images. Experiments on publicly available datasets show the superiority of the proposed method to several state-of-the-art few-shot learning techniques for chest x-ray diagnosis. © 2021 IEEE.
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JournalData powered by TypesetProceedings - International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging
PublisherData powered by TypesetIEEE Computer Society
ISSN19457928