Pathology localization on chest radiographs with limited supervision via semi-supervised multiple instance learning

Radiographs are the primary examination for diagnosing chest conditions, and yet they are frequently misread/misdiagnosed due to human-observer confusion. In clinical practice, there is an increase of deep learning approaches to support radiologists on the decision-making process to improve diagnost...

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Autor: Pooch, Eduardo Henrique Pais
Tipo de recurso: tesis de maestría
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:Brasil
Institución:Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS)
Repositorio:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_RS
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:tede2.pucrs.br:tede/9790
Acceso en línea:http://tede2.pucrs.br/tede2/handle/tede/9790
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Deep Learning
Medical Imaging
Semi-Supervised Learning
Multiple Instance Learning
Aprendizado Profundo
Imagens Médicas
Aprendizado Semi-Supervisionado
Aprendizado de Múltiplas Instâncias
CIENCIA DA COMPUTACAO::TEORIA DA COMPUTACAO
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Sumario:Radiographs are the primary examination for diagnosing chest conditions, and yet they are frequently misread/misdiagnosed due to human-observer confusion. In clinical practice, there is an increase of deep learning approaches to support radiologists on the decision-making process to improve diagnostic accuracy. To properly support radiologists, it is insufficient for the system to simply output a diagnosis label. Ideally, the model should provide more information to support the classification result, such as the spatial localization of the finding. To properly train deep learning models, we usually need lots of annotated data. There is a vast amount of publicly-available chest radiographs labeled according to their radiological findings (labels for classification), but very few contain a location annotation. Our goal is to extend the use of unlabeled data to improve pathology localization in chest radiographs in a scenario with limited labeled data. We identify state-of-the-art semi-supervised methods and evaluated their performance on a classification scenario. Next, we extend the best method, Mean Teacher, to perform localization within a multiple instance learning framework, introducing our method C-MIL. Multiple instance learning is a paradigm with two types of labels: a general label that is known, and a more specific and unknown label but related to the one known, in our case, pathology presence and its localization. Our results show improvements of applying consistency regularization over a multiple instance localization framework and demonstrate that semi-supervised learning methods are promising to advance the state-of-the-art performance of pathology localization methods.