Entropy estimation of the fragments of chest X-ray images

2021 ◽  
pp. 20-26
Author(s):  
Aleksei Aleksandrovich Rumyantsev ◽  
Farkhad Mansurovich Bikmuratov ◽  
Nikolai Pavlovich Pashin
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Neural Networks ◽  
Binary Classification ◽  
Statistical Characteristics ◽  
Type I ◽  
Deep Convolutional Neural Networks ◽  
Preliminary Calculation ◽  
X Ray ◽  
The Matrix ◽  
Chest X Ray

The subject of this research is medical chest X-ray images. After fundamental pre-processing, the accumulated database of such images can be used for training deep convolutional neural networks that have become one of the most significant innovations in recent years. The trained network carries out preliminary binary classification of the incoming images and serve as an assistant to the radiotherapist. For this purpose, it is necessary to train the neural network to carefully minimize type I and type II errors. Possible approach towards improving the effectiveness of application of neural networks, by the criteria of reducing computational complexity and quality of image classification, is the auxiliary approaches: image pre-processing and preliminary calculation of entropy of the fragments. The article provides the algorithm for X-ray image pre-processing, its fragmentation, and calculation of the entropy of separate fragments. In the course of pre-processing, the region of lungs and spine is selected, which comprises approximately 30-40% of the entire image. Then the image is divided into the matrix of fragments, calculating the entropy of separate fragments in accordance with Shannon’s formula based pm the analysis of individual pixels. Determination of the rate of occurrence of each of the 255 colors allows calculating the total entropy. The use of entropy for detecting pathologies is based on the assumption that its values differ for separate fragments and overall picture of its distribution between the images with the norm and pathologies. The article analyzes the statistical values: standard deviation of error, dispersion. A fully connected neural network is used for determining the patterns in distribution of entropy and its statistical characteristics on various fragments of the chest X-ray image.

Synthesizing Chest X-Ray Pathology for Training Deep Convolutional Neural Networks

2019 ◽  
Vol 38 (5) ◽  
pp. 1197-1206 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hojjat Salehinejad ◽  
Errol Colak ◽  
Tim Dowdell ◽  
Joseph Barfett ◽  
Shahrokh Valaee
Keyword(s):  
Neural Networks ◽  
Convolutional Neural Networks ◽  
Deep Convolutional Neural Networks ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Chest X Ray

Automated detection of pneumonia cases using deep transfer learning with paediatric chest X-ray images

2021 ◽  
pp. 20201263
Author(s):  
Mohammad Salehi ◽  
Reza Mohammadi ◽  
Hamed Ghaffari ◽  
Nahid Sadighi ◽  
Reza Reiazi
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Convolutional Neural Network ◽  
Transfer Learning ◽  
Area Under Curve ◽  
Binary Classification ◽  
Classification Performance ◽  
Learning Approach ◽  
Insufficient Data ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Chest X Ray

Objective: Pneumonia is a lung infection and causes the inflammation of the small air sacs (Alveoli) in one or both lungs. Proper and faster diagnosis of pneumonia at an early stage is imperative for optimal patient care. Currently, chest X-ray is considered as the best imaging modality for diagnosing pneumonia. However, the interpretation of chest X-ray images is challenging. To this end, we aimed to use an automated convolutional neural network-based transfer-learning approach to detect pneumonia in paediatric chest radiographs. Methods: Herein, an automated convolutional neural network-based transfer-learning approach using four different pre-trained models (i.e. VGG19, DenseNet121, Xception, and ResNet50) was applied to detect pneumonia in children (1–5 years) chest X-ray images. The performance of different proposed models for testing data set was evaluated using five performances metrics, including accuracy, sensitivity/recall, Precision, area under curve, and F1 score. Results: All proposed models provide accuracy greater than 83.0% for binary classification. The pre-trained DenseNet121 model provides the highest classification performance of automated pneumonia classification with 86.8% accuracy, followed by Xception model with an accuracy of 86.0%. The sensitivity of the proposed models was greater than 91.0%. The Xception and DenseNet121 models achieve the highest classification performance with F1-score greater than 89.0%. The plotted area under curve of receiver operating characteristics of VGG19, Xception, ResNet50, and DenseNet121 models are 0.78, 0.81, 0.81, and 0.86, respectively. Conclusion: Our data showed that the proposed models achieve a high accuracy for binary classification. Transfer learning was used to accelerate training of the proposed models and resolve the problem associated with insufficient data. We hope that these proposed models can help radiologists for a quick diagnosis of pneumonia at radiology departments. Moreover, our proposed models may be useful to detect other chest-related diseases such as novel Coronavirus 2019. Advances in knowledge: Herein, we used transfer learning as a machine learning approach to accelerate training of the proposed models and resolve the problem associated with insufficient data. Our proposed models achieved accuracy greater than 83.0% for binary classification.

scholarly journals Identifying drug-resistant tuberculosis from chest X-ray images using a simple convolutional neural network

2021 ◽  
Vol 2071 (1) ◽  
pp. 012001
Author(s):  
J Ureta ◽  
A Shrestha
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Convolutional Neural Network ◽  
Binary Classification ◽  
Health Concern ◽  
Drug Resistant ◽  
X Rays ◽  
Drug Resistant Tuberculosis ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Resistant Tuberculosis ◽  
Chest X Ray

Abstract Tuberculosis(TB) is one of the top 10 causes of death worldwide, and drug-resistant TB is a major public health concern especially in resource-constrained countries. In such countries, molecular diagnosis of drug-resistant TB remains a challenge; and imaging tools such as X-rays, which are cheaply and widely available, can be a valuable supplemental resource for early detection and screening. This study uses a specialized convolutional neural network to perform binary classification of chest X-ray images to classify drug-resistant and drug-sensitive TB. The models were trained and validated using the TBPortals dataset which contains 2,973 labeled X-ray images from TB patients. The classifiers were able to identify the presence or absence of drug-resistant Tuberculosis with an AUROC between 0.66–0.67, which is an improvement over previous attempts using deep learning networks.

scholarly journals An Effective Convolutional Neural Network Model for the Early Detection of COVID-19 Using Chest X-ray Images

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (21) ◽  
pp. 10301
Author(s):  
Muhammad Shoaib Farooq ◽  
Attique Ur Rehman ◽  
Muhammad Idrees ◽  
Muhammad Ahsan Raza ◽  
Jehad Ali ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Convolutional Neural Network ◽  
Real World ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Binary Classification ◽  
X Rays ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Chest X Ray

COVID-19 has been difficult to diagnose and treat at an early stage all over the world. The numbers of patients showing symptoms for COVID-19 have caused medical facilities at hospitals to become unavailable or overcrowded, which is a major challenge. Studies have recently allowed us to determine that COVID-19 can be diagnosed with the aid of chest X-ray images. To combat the COVID-19 outbreak, developing a deep learning (DL) based model for automated COVID-19 diagnosis on chest X-ray is beneficial. In this research, we have proposed a customized convolutional neural network (CNN) model to detect COVID-19 from chest X-ray images. The model is based on nine layers which uses a binary classification method to differentiate between COVID-19 and normal chest X-rays. It provides COVID-19 detection early so the patients can be admitted in a timely fashion. The proposed model was trained and tested on two publicly available datasets. Cross-dataset studies are used to assess the robustness in a real-world context. Six hundred X-ray images were used for training and two hundred X-rays were used for validation of the model. The X-ray images of the dataset were preprocessed to improve the results and visualized for better analysis. The developed algorithm reached 98% precision, recall and f1-score. The cross-dataset studies also demonstrate the resilience of deep learning algorithms in a real-world context with 98.5 percent accuracy. Furthermore, a comparison table was created which shows that our proposed model outperforms other relative models in terms of accuracy. The quick and high-performance of our proposed DL-based customized model identifies COVID-19 patients quickly, which is helpful in controlling the COVID-19 outbreak.

scholarly journals Classification of Pneumonia images on mobile devices with Quantized Neural Network

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (10) ◽  
pp. e889108382
Author(s):  
Jose Vigno Moura Sousa ◽  
Vilson Rosa de Almeida ◽  
Aratã Andrade Saraiva ◽  
Domingos Bruno Sousa Santos ◽  
Pedro Mateus Cunha Pimentel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Neural Networks ◽  
User Interface ◽  
Computational Cost ◽  
Mobile App ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Chest X Ray ◽  
Intuitive User Interface ◽  
Processing Requirement

This paper presents an approach for the classification of child chest X-ray images into two classes: pneumonia and normal. We employ Convolutional Neural Networks, from pre-trained networks together with a quantization process, using the platform TensorFlow Lite method. This reduces the processing requirement and computational cost. Results have shown accuracy up to 95.4% and 94.2% for MobileNetV1 and MobileNetV2, respectively. The resulting mobile app also presents a simple and intuitive user interface.

scholarly journals Lung X-ray Segmentation using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks on Contrast-Enhanced Binarized Images

Mathematics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 545 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hsin-Jui Chen ◽  
Shanq-Jang Ruan ◽  
Sha-Wo Huang ◽  
Yan-Tsung Peng
Keyword(s):  
Neural Networks ◽  
Convolutional Neural Networks ◽  
Deep Convolutional Neural Networks ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Processing Approach ◽  
Segmentation Accuracy ◽  
Enhancement Method ◽  
Digital Chest ◽  
Chest X Ray ◽  
Model Training

Automatically locating the lung regions effectively and efficiently in digital chest X-ray (CXR) images is important in computer-aided diagnosis. In this paper, we propose an adaptive pre-processing approach for segmenting the lung regions from CXR images using convolutional neural networks-based (CNN-based) architectures. It is comprised of three steps. First, a contrast enhancement method specifically designed for CXR images is adopted. Second, adaptive image binarization is applied to CXR images to separate the image foreground and background. Third, CNN-based architectures are trained on the binarized images for image segmentation. The experimental results show that the proposed pre-processing approach is applicable and effective to various CNN-based architectures and can achieve comparable segmentation accuracy to that of state-of-the-art methods while greatly expediting the model training by up to 20.74 % and reducing storage space for CRX image datasets by down to 94.6 % on average.

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