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Building a Benchmark Dataset and Classifiers for Sentence-Level Findings in AP Chest X-Rays

Abstract

Chest X-rays are the most common diagnostic exams in emergency rooms and hospitals. There has been a surge of work on automatic interpretation of chest X-rays using deep learning approaches after the availability of large open source chest X-ray dataset from NIH. However, the labels are not sufficiently rich and descriptive for training classification tools. Further, it does not adequately address the findings seen in Chest X-rays taken in anterior-posterior (AP) view which also depict the placement of devices such as central vascular lines and tubes. In this paper, we present a new chest X-ray benchmark database of 73 rich sentence-level descriptors of findings seen in AP chest X-rays. We describe our method of obtaining these findings through a semi-automated ground truth generation process from crowdsourcing of clinician annotations. We also present results of building classifiers for these findings that show that such higher granularity labels can also be learned through the framework of deep learning classifiers.

Authors

Syeda-Mahmood T; Ahmad H; Ansari N; Gur Y; Kashyap S; Karargyris A; Moradi M; Pillai A; Seshadhri K; Wang W

Volume

00

Pagination

pp. 863-867

Publisher

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Publication Date

April 11, 2019

DOI

10.1109/isbi.2019.8759162

Name of conference

2019 IEEE 16th International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI 2019)
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