scholarly journals Does Two-Class Training Extract Real Features? A COVID-19 Case Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 1424
Author(s):  
Luis Muñoz-Saavedra ◽  
Javier Civit-Masot ◽  
Francisco Luna-Perejón ◽  
Manuel Domínguez-Morales ◽  
Antón Civit

Diagnosis aid systems that use image analysis are currently very useful due to the large workload of health professionals involved in making diagnoses. In recent years, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have been used to help in these tasks. For this reason, multiple studies that analyze the detection precision for several diseases have been developed. However, many of these works distinguish between only two classes: healthy and with a specific disease. Based on this premise, in this work, we try to answer the questions: When training an image classification system with only two classes (healthy and sick), does this system extract the specific features of this disease, or does it only obtain the features that differentiate it from a healthy patient? Trying to answer these questions, we analyze the particular case of COVID-19 detection. Many works that classify this disease using X-ray images have been published; some of them use two classes (with and without COVID-19), while others include more classes (pneumonia, SARS, influenza, etc.). In this work, we carry out several classification studies with two classes, using test images that do not belong to those classes, in order to try to answer the previous questions. The first studies indicate problems in these two-class systems when using a third class as a test, being classified inconsistently. Deeper studies show that deep learning systems trained with two classes do not correctly extract the characteristics of pathologies, but rather differentiate the classes based on the physical characteristics of the images. After the discussion, we conclude that these two-class trained deep learning systems are not valid if there are other diseases that cause similar symptoms.

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2.7) ◽  
pp. 614 ◽  
Author(s):  
M Manoj krishna ◽  
M Neelima ◽  
M Harshali ◽  
M Venu Gopala Rao

The image classification is a classical problem of image processing, computer vision and machine learning fields. In this paper we study the image classification using deep learning. We use AlexNet architecture with convolutional neural networks for this purpose. Four test images are selected from the ImageNet database for the classification purpose. We cropped the images for various portion areas and conducted experiments. The results show the effectiveness of deep learning based image classification using AlexNet.  


In late years, critical learning methodologies especially Convolutional Neural Networks have been utilized in different solicitations. CNN's have appeared to be a key capacity to ordinarily expel broad volumes of data from massive information. The uses of CNNs have inside and out ended up being useful especially in orchestrating ordinary pictures. Regardless, there have been essential obstacles in executing the CNNs in a restorative zone as a result of the nonattendance of genuine getting ready data. Consequently, general imaging benchmarks, for instance, Image Net have been conspicuously used in the restorative not too zone notwithstanding the way that they are perfect when appeared differently about the CNNs. In this paper, a comparative examination of LeNet, AlexNet, and GoogLeNet has been done. Starting there, the paper has proposed an improved hypothetical structure for requesting helpful life structures pictures using CNNs. In perspective on the proposed structure of the framework, the CNNs building are required to beat the previous three plans in requesting remedial pictures.


EDIS ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Amr Abd-Elrahman ◽  
Katie Britt ◽  
Vance Whitaker

This publication presents a guide to image analysis for researchers and farm managers who use ArcGIS software. Anyone with basic geographic information system analysis skills may follow along with the demonstration and learn to implement the Mask Region Convolutional Neural Networks model, a widely used model for object detection, to delineate strawberry canopies using ArcGIS Pro Image Analyst Extension in a simple workflow. This process is useful for precision agriculture management.


Author(s):  
Victoria Wu

Introduction: Scoliosis, an excessive curvature of the spine, affects approximately 1 in 1,000 individuals. As a result, there have formerly been implementations of mandatory scoliosis screening procedures. Screening programs are no longer widely used as the harms often outweigh the benefits; it causes many adolescents to undergo frequent diagnosis X-ray procedure This makes spinal ultrasounds an ideal substitute for scoliosis screening in patients, as it does not expose them to those levels of radiation. Spinal curvatures can be accurately computed from the location of spinal transverse processes, by measuring the vertebral angle from a reference line [1]. However, ultrasound images are less clear than x-ray images, making it difficult to identify the spinal processes. To overcome this, we employ deep learning using a convolutional neural network, which is a powerful tool for computer vision and image classification [2]. Method: A total of 2,752 ultrasound images were recorded from a spine phantom to train a convolutional neural network. Subsequently, we took another recording of 747 images to be used for testing. All the ultrasound images from the scans were then segmented manually, using the 3D Slicer (www.slicer.org) software. Next, the dataset was fed through a convolutional neural network. The network used was a modified version of GoogLeNet (Inception v1), with 2 linearly stacked inception models. This network was chosen because it provided a balance between accurate performance, and time efficient computations. Results: Deep learning classification using the Inception model achieved an accuracy of 84% for the phantom scan.  Conclusion: The classification model performs with considerable accuracy. Better accuracy needs to be achieved, possibly with more available data and improvements in the classification model.  Acknowledgements: G. Fichtinger is supported as a Canada Research Chair in Computer-Integrated Surgery. This work was funded, in part, by NIH/NIBIB and NIH/NIGMS (via grant 1R01EB021396-01A1 - Slicer+PLUS: Point-of-Care Ultrasound) and by CANARIE’s Research Software Program.    Figure 1: Ultrasound scan containing a transverse process (left), and ultrasound scan containing no transverse process (right).                                Figure 2: Accuracy of classification for training (red) and validation (blue). References:           Ungi T, King F, Kempston M, Keri Z, Lasso A, Mousavi P, Rudan J, Borschneck DP, Fichtinger G. Spinal Curvature Measurement by Tracked Ultrasound Snapshots. Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, 40(2):447-54, Feb 2014.           Krizhevsky A, Sutskeyer I, Hinton GE. (2012). ImageNet Classification with Deep Convolutional Neural Networks. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 25:1097-1105. 


Entropy ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (5) ◽  
pp. 456 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hao Cheng ◽  
Dongze Lian ◽  
Shenghua Gao ◽  
Yanlin Geng

Inspired by the pioneering work of the information bottleneck (IB) principle for Deep Neural Networks’ (DNNs) analysis, we thoroughly study the relationship among the model accuracy, I ( X ; T ) and I ( T ; Y ) , where I ( X ; T ) and I ( T ; Y ) are the mutual information of DNN’s output T with input X and label Y. Then, we design an information plane-based framework to evaluate the capability of DNNs (including CNNs) for image classification. Instead of each hidden layer’s output, our framework focuses on the model output T. We successfully apply our framework to many application scenarios arising in deep learning and image classification problems, such as image classification with unbalanced data distribution, model selection, and transfer learning. The experimental results verify the effectiveness of the information plane-based framework: Our framework may facilitate a quick model selection and determine the number of samples needed for each class in the unbalanced classification problem. Furthermore, the framework explains the efficiency of transfer learning in the deep learning area.


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