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Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Computer-Aided Detection: CNN Architectures, Dataset Characteristics and Transfer Learning
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Remarkable progress has been made in image recognition, primarily due to the availability of large-scale annotated datasets and deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs). CNNs enable learning data-driven, highly representative, hierarchical image features from sufficient training data. However, obtaining datasets as comprehensively annotated as ImageNet in the medical imaging domain remains a challenge. There are currently three major techniques that successfully employ CNNs to medical image classification: training the CNN from scratch, using off-the-shelf pre-trained CNN features, and conducting unsupervised CNN pre-training with supervised fine-tuning. Another effective method is transfer learning, i.e., fine-tuning CNN models pre-trained from natural image dataset to medical image tasks. In this paper, we exploit three important, but previously understudied factors of employing deep convolutional neural networks to computer-aided detection problems. We first explore and evaluate different CNN architectures. The studied models contain 5 thousand to 160 million parameters, and vary in numbers of layers. We then evaluate the influence of dataset scale and spatial image context on performance. Finally, we examine when and why transfer learning from pre-trained ImageNet (via fine-tuning) can be useful. We study two specific computer-aided detection (CADe) problems, namely thoraco-abdominal lymph node (LN) detection and interstitial lung disease (ILD) classification. We achieve the state-of-the-art performance on the mediastinal LN detection, and report the first five-fold cross-validation classification results on predicting axial CT slices with ILD categories. Our extensive empirical evaluation, CNN model analysis and valuable insights can be extended to the design of high performance CAD systems for other medical imaging tasks.
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This paper empirically evaluates CNN architectures, dataset characteristics, and ImageNet transfer learning for two computer-aided detection tasks: thoraco-abdominal lymph node (LN) detection and interstitial lung disease (ILD) classification. It reports state-of-the-art mediastinal LN detection and the first five-fold cross-validation ILD slice classification results, finding that transfer learning and end-to-end training generally outperform off-the-shelf CNN features.
Key findings
- For mediastinal LN detection, GoogLeNet-RI-L achieved AUC = 0.95 and 0.85 TPR/3FP, surpassing prior results of AUC = 0.92 and 0.70 TPR/3FP [22] and 0.78 TPR/3FP [36].
- Transfer learning from ImageNet consistently improved performance: GoogLeNet-TL-H versus GoogLeNet-RI-H gave 0.81 versus 0.61 TPR/3FP in mediastinum and 0.70 versus 0.48 TPR/3FP in abdomen; AlexNet-TL-H versus AlexNet-RI-H gave 0.81 versus 0.79 TPR/3FP in mediastinum and 0.69 versus 0.67 TPR/3FP in abdomen.
- For ILD slice-level five-fold CV, GoogLeNet-TL reached 0.57 accuracy versus GoogLeNet-RI 0.41, and AlexNet-TL reached 0.46 versus AlexNet-RI 0.44; patch-level ILD classification was less challenging, with five deep models in the range [0.74, 0.76] and an averaged model at 0.79.
- CNNs trained from scratch or fine-tuned from ImageNet consistently outperformed CNNs using only off-the-shelf CNN features in both LN and ILD problems.
Methods
- The study evaluated CifarNet, AlexNet, and GoogLeNet architectures (later also OverFeat and VGGNet) on two CADe tasks: thoraco-abdominal LN detection using 388 mediastinal LNs in 90 patient CT scans and 595 abdominal LNs in 86 patient CT scans, and ILD classification using 905 annotated image slices from 120 patients with six ILD labels.
- LN detection used randomly sampled 2.5D views with fields-of-view spanning 35–128 mm, rescaled to 64×64 pixels, and three-fold cross-validation with FROC AUC and TPR/3FP metrics; ILD classification used slice-level and patch-level tasks under patient-level five-fold cross-validation, with CT windowing encoded into RGB channels and data augmentation.
- Training used the Caffe framework and NVidia K40 GPUs; models trained from scratch used random Gaussian initialization for 30 epochs with mini-batch size 50, while transfer learning fine-tuned all layers except the last at a learning rate 10 times smaller than default, with the last fully connected layer randomly initialized and trained at 0.01.
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- The paper states that the ILD dataset is partially labeled, with very few CT slices labeled as normal or healthy, and that this is one of its main limitations; it also states that the dataset’s limited patient population of 120 patients may not adequately represent ILD disease CT lung imaging patterns.
- The paper states that slice-level CNN learning is restricted to only 905 CT image slices, that no existing work has reached performance requirements for a realistic clinical setting, and that the most critical bottlenecks for ILD classification are cross-dataset learning and limited patient population size.
- Evident from the reported results: ILD slice-level CV5 accuracies were low (0.41–0.57), and LOO validation produced much higher accuracies than CV5 (e.g., AlexNet-TL 0.867 versus 0.46; GoogLeNet-TL 0.902 versus 0.57), indicating sensitivity to evaluation protocol; also, for abdominal LN detection the best reported CNN result (0.70 TPR/3FP) did not surpass the prior [22] result of 0.83 TPR/3FP.
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“We achieve the state-of-the-art performance on the mediastinal LN detection, and report the first five-fold cross-validation classification results on predicting axial CT slices with ILD categories.”
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“Our experimental results suggest that different CNN architectures and dataset re-sampling protocols are critical for the LN detection tasks where the amount of labeled training data is sufficient and spatial contexts are local.”
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“As a result, LN datasets contain more training and testing data instances (due to data auugmentation) than ILD datasets.”
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“In the publicly available ILD dataset, very few CT slices are labeled as normal or healthy.”
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“CNN training learns to ignore them by setting very small filter weights around the corresponding regions (Fig. 13).”
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“The average number of CT slices (training instances) per fold is small, as shown in Table I.”
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“We found that the transfer learning strategy yields the best performance results.”
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“Another significant finding is that CNNs trained from scratch or fine-tuned from ImageNet models consistently outperform CNNs that merely use off-the-shelf CNN features, in both the LN and ILD classification problems.”
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“ILD [37] is a partially labeled database; this is one of its main limitations.”
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- Not checked yetcites [37] Depeursinge A., “ Building a reference multimedia database for interstitial lung diseases,” Comput. Med. Imaging and. Grap., vol. 36, no. 3, pp. 227– 238, 2012. 21803548
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“We obtain 86% sensitivity on 3 false positives (FP) per patient, versus the prior state-of-art sensitivities of 78% [36] (stacked shallow learning) and 70% [22] (CNN), as prior state-of-the-art.”
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- Not checked yetcites [36] Seff A., Lu L., Barbu A., Roth H., Shin H.-C., and Summers R. M., “ Leveraging mid-level semantic boundary cues for computer-aided lymph node detection,” Proc. MICCAI, 2015. source
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“They nonetheless remain less comprehensive than natural image datasets, such as ImageNet.”
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“Fine-tuning ImageNet-trained models for ILD classification is clearly advantageous and yields early promising results, when the amount of labeled training data is highly insufficient and multi-class categorization is used, as opposed to the LN dataset's binary class categorization.”
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“Hence, the purely random image resampling (with respect to scale, displacement and orientation) and reformatting (the axial, coronal, and sagittal views are in any system randomly resampled coordinates) is a natural choice, which also happens to yield high CNN performance.”
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“GoogLeNet-TL-H | 0.94 | 0.81 | 0.92 | 0.70”
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“GoogLeNet-TL-H yields results similar to AlexNet-TL-H's for the mediastinal LN detection, and slightly outperforms Alex-Net-H for abdominal LN detection.”
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“Likewise, AlexNet-TL-H consistently outperforms AlexNet-RI-H, though by smaller margins (0.81 versus 0.79 TPR/3FP in mediastinum; 0.69 versus 0.67 TPR/3FP in abdomen).”
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“However, transfer learning from ImageNet pre-trained model is consistently beneficial, as evidenced by AlexNet-TL (0.46) versus AlexNet-RI (0.44), and GoogLeNet-TL (0.57) versus GoogLeNet-RI (0.41).”
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“AlexNet-RI-H exhibits less severe over-fitting than GoogLeNet-RI-H.”
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“GoogLeNet-RI-L | 0.95 | 0.85 | 0.91 | 0.69”
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- Not checked yetcites [36] Seff A., Lu L., Barbu A., Roth H., Shin H.-C., and Summers R. M., “ Leveraging mid-level semantic boundary cues for computer-aided lymph node detection,” Proc. MICCAI, 2015. source
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“Patch-CV5 | 0.76 | 0.74 | 0.76 | 0.75 | 0.76 | 0.79”
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“Patch-CV5 yields higher F-scores than [54] and classifies the extra consolidation (CD) class.”
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- Not checked yetcites [54] Li Q., “ Medical image classification with convolutional neural network,” Proc. 13th Int. Conf. Control Automat. Robot. Vis., pp. 844– 848, 2014.
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“The quantitative results in Table III indicate that AlexNet-TL and GoogLeNet-TL have consistently better classification accuracies than AlexNet-RI and GoogLeNet-RI, respectively.”
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“For example, in ILD slice-level classification, the accuracy level drastically increases from 0.46 to 0.867 using AlexNet-TL, and from 0.57 to 0.902 for GoogLeNet-TL.”
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“For AlexNet-RI in Fig. 11(a), the training loss significantly decreases as the number of training epochs increases, while the validation loss notably increases and the validation accuracy does not improve much before reaching a plateau.”
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“During the process, the validation loss, having remained at lower values throughout, achieves higher final accuracy levels than the validation loss on a similar problem with random initialization.”
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“Since LN images are more flexible than ILD images with respect to resampling and reformatting, LN datasets may be more readily augmented by such image transformations.”
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“There are currently three major techniques that successfully employ CNNs to medical image classification: 1) training the “CNN from scratch” [13]–[17]; 2) using “off-the-shelf CNN” features (without retraining the CNN) as complementary information channels to existing hand-crafted image features, for chest X-rays [10] and CT lung nodule identification [9], [12]; and 3) performing unsupervised pre-”
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“ImageNet is currently the largest image dataset among other standard datasets for visual recognition.”
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“This significant intra-class variation poses greater challenges to any data-driven learning system that builds a classifier to fit given data and generalize to unseen data.”
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“Transforming axial, coronal, and sagittal representations to RGB also facilitates transfer learning from CNN models trained on ImageNet.”
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“More importantly, it also introduces a new module called “Inception”, which concatenates filters of different sizes and dimensions into a single new filter (refer to Fig. 6).”
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- Not checked yetcites [33] Szegedy C., “ Going deeper with convolutions,” in Proc. IEEE Comput. Soc. Conf. Comput. Vis. Pattern Recognit., 2015, pp. 1– 9. source
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“Evaluation protocols and details are critical to deriving significant empirical findings [34].”
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- Not checked yetcites [34] Chatfield K., Simonyan K., Vedaldi A., and Zisserman A., “ Return of the devil in the details: Delving deep into convolutional nets,” Br. Mach. Vis. Conf., 2014. source
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“The AlexNet architecture was published in [4], achieved significantly improved performance over the other non-deep learning methods for ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge (ILSVRC) 2012.”
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- Not checked yetcites [4] Krizhevsky A., Sutskever I., and Hinton G. E., “ ImageNet classification with deep convolutional neural networks,” Proc. NIPS, pp. 1097– 1105, 2012. source
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“In summary, the assumption that there are or must be pixel-wise spatial correlations among input channels does not apply to the CNN model representation.”
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“The ImageNet dataset is publicly available, and the ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge (ILSVRC) has become the standard benchmark for large-scale object recognition.”
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“Characterizing an arbitrary CT slice against any possible ILD type, without any manual ROI (in contrast to [38], [39]), can be useful for large-scale patient screening.”
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“AlexNet can be fine-tuned on the PASCAL dataset to surpass the performance of the ImageNet pre-trained AlexNet, although the difference is not as significant as that between the CNN and non-CNN methods.”
§ Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Computer-Aided Detection: CNN Architectures, Dataset Characteristics and Transfer Learning > Methods > Training Protocols and Transfer Learning
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- Not checked yetcites [6] Girshick R., Donahue J., Darrell T., and Malik J., “ Region-based convolutional networks for accurate object detection and semantic segmentation,” IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell., vol. 38, no. 1, pp. 142– 158, Jan. 2016. 26656583 source
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“Slice-level ILD classification is a very challenging task where CNN models need to learn from very small numbers of training examples and predict ILD labels on unseen patients.”
§ Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Computer-Aided Detection: CNN Architectures, Dataset Characteristics and Transfer Learning > Datasets and Related Work > Interstitial Lung Disease Dataset
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“GoogLeNet is the current state-of-the-art CNN architecture for the ILSVRC challenge, where it achieved 5.5% top-5 classification error on the ImageNet challenge, compared to AlexNet's 15.3% top-5 classification error.”
§ Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Computer-Aided Detection: CNN Architectures, Dataset Characteristics and Transfer Learning > Methods > Convolutional Neural Network Architectures
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [33] Szegedy C., “ Going deeper with convolutions,” in Proc. IEEE Comput. Soc. Conf. Comput. Vis. Pattern Recognit., 2015, pp. 1– 9. source
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“On the other hand, the mainstream deep CNN architectures (e.g., AlexNet and GoogLeNet) contain tens of millions of free parameters to train, and thus require sufficiently large numbers of labeled medical images.”
§ Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Computer-Aided Detection: CNN Architectures, Dataset Characteristics and Transfer Learning > Methods > Training Protocols and Transfer Learning
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“ImageNet [1] has more than 1.2 million 256×256 images categorized under 1000 object class categories.”
§ Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Computer-Aided Detection: CNN Architectures, Dataset Characteristics and Transfer Learning > Methods > Imagenet: Large Scale Annotated Natural Image Dataset
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- Not matchedcites [1] Deng J., “ ImageNet: A large-scale hierarchical image database,” in Proc. IEEE Conf. Comput. Vis. Pattern Recognit., 2009, pp. 248– 255.
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“More importantly, these CT windowing processes do not depend on the lung segmentation, which instead is directly defined in the CT HU space.”
§ Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Computer-Aided Detection: CNN Architectures, Dataset Characteristics and Transfer Learning > Datasets and Related Work > Interstitial Lung Disease Dataset
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“We evaluate the ILD classification task with five-fold CV on patient-level split, as it is more informative for real clinical performance than LOO.”
§ Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Computer-Aided Detection: CNN Architectures, Dataset Characteristics and Transfer Learning > Evaluations and Discussions > Interstitial Lung Disease Classification
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“The experimental results in [40] are conducted with a patient-level hard split of 100 (training) and 20 (testing).”
§ Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Computer-Aided Detection: CNN Architectures, Dataset Characteristics and Transfer Learning > Evaluations and Discussions > Interstitial Lung Disease Classification
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [40] Gao M., “ Holistic classification of CT attenuation patterns for interstitial lung diseases via deep convolutional neural networks,” in Proc. MICCAI First Workshop Deep Learn. Med. Image Anal., 2015. PMC5881940 29623248
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“This difference lies in the fact that annotated lymph node segmentation masks are required to learn a mid-level semantic boundary detector [36], whereas CNN approaches only need LN locations for training [22].”
§ Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Computer-Aided Detection: CNN Architectures, Dataset Characteristics and Transfer Learning > Evaluations and Discussions > Thoracoabdominal Lymph Node Detection
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [36] Seff A., Lu L., Barbu A., Roth H., Shin H.-C., and Summers R. M., “ Leveraging mid-level semantic boundary cues for computer-aided lymph node detection,” Proc. MICCAI, 2015. source
- Not checked yetcites [22] Roth H., “ Improving computer-aided detection using convolutional neural networks and random view aggregation,” IEEE Trans. Med. Imag.. PMC7340334 26441412 source
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“Both [38] and [39] use the evaluation protocol of “leave-one-patient-out” (LOO), which is arguably much easier and not directly comparable to 10-fold CV [54] or our Patch-CV5.”
§ Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Computer-Aided Detection: CNN Architectures, Dataset Characteristics and Transfer Learning > Evaluations and Discussions > Interstitial Lung Disease Classification
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [38] Song Y., Cai W., Zhou Y., and Feng D. D., “ Feature-based image patch approximation for lung tissue classification,” IEEE Trans. Med. Imag., vol. 32, no. 4, pp. 797– 808, Apr. 2013. 23340591 source
- Not checked yetcites [39] Song Y., “ Large margin local estimate with applications to medical image classification,” IEEE Trans. Med. Imag., vol. 34, no. 6, pp. 1362– 1377, Jun. 2015. 25616009 source
- Not checked yetcites [54] Li Q., “ Medical image classification with convolutional neural network,” Proc. 13th Int. Conf. Control Automat. Robot. Vis., pp. 844– 848, 2014. source
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“We train and evaluate CNNs using three-fold cross-validation (folds are split into disjoint sets of patients), with the different CNN architectures described above.”
§ Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Computer-Aided Detection: CNN Architectures, Dataset Characteristics and Transfer Learning > Evaluations and Discussions > Thoracoabdominal Lymph Node Detection
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“AlexNet is the first notably successful CNN architecture on the ImageNet challenge and has rekindled significant research interests on CNN.”
§ Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Computer-Aided Detection: CNN Architectures, Dataset Characteristics and Transfer Learning > Evaluations and Discussions > Evaluation of Five CNN Models Using ILD Classification
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“GoogLeNet is the state-of-the-art deep model, which has outperformed other notable models, such as AlexNet, OverFeat, and VGGNet [67], [68] in various computer vision benchmarks.”
§ Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Computer-Aided Detection: CNN Architectures, Dataset Characteristics and Transfer Learning > Evaluations and Discussions > Evaluation of Five CNN Models Using ILD Classification
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [67] Sermanet P., “ Overfeat: Integrated recognition, localization and detection using convolutional networks,” Proc. ICLR, 2014. source
- Not checked yetcites [68] Simonyan K. and Zisserman A., “ Very deep convolutional networks for large-scale image recognition,” Proc. ICLR, 2014. source
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“This image sampling scheme contributes to our best reported performance results in both mediastinal LN detection (in this paper) and automated pancreas segmentation [45].”
§ Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Computer-Aided Detection: CNN Architectures, Dataset Characteristics and Transfer Learning > Evaluations and Discussions > Thoracoabdominal Lymph Node Detection
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- Not checked yetcites [45] Roth H., “ DeepOrgan: Multi-level deep convolutional networks for automated pancreas segmentation,” Proc. MICCAI, 2015. source
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“The overall reported LN detection results are clinically significant, as indicated in [63].”
§ Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Computer-Aided Detection: CNN Architectures, Dataset Characteristics and Transfer Learning > Evaluations and Discussions > Thoracoabdominal Lymph Node Detection
What the sources say
- Not matchedcites [63] Kim L., “ Performance assessment of retroperitoneal lymph node computer-assisted detection using random forest and deep convolutional neural network learning algorithms in tandem,” in 102nd Annu. Meet. Radiol. Soc. N. Am., 2014.
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“In general, patch-level ILD classification is less challenging than slice-level classification, as far more data samples can be sampled from the manually annotated ROIs (up to 100 image patches per ROI), available from [37].”
§ Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Computer-Aided Detection: CNN Architectures, Dataset Characteristics and Transfer Learning > Evaluations and Discussions > Interstitial Lung Disease Classification
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [37] Depeursinge A., “ Building a reference multimedia database for interstitial lung diseases,” Comput. Med. Imaging and. Grap., vol. 36, no. 3, pp. 227– 238, 2012. 21803548
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“Recently, Gao et al. [40] have argued that a new CADe protocol on holistic classification of ILD diseases directly, using axial CT slice attenuation patterns and CNN, may be more realistic for clinical applications.”
§ Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Computer-Aided Detection: CNN Architectures, Dataset Characteristics and Transfer Learning > Evaluations and Discussions > Interstitial Lung Disease Classification
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [40] Gao M., “ Holistic classification of CT attenuation patterns for interstitial lung diseases via deep convolutional neural networks,” in Proc. MICCAI First Workshop Deep Learn. Med. Image Anal., 2015. PMC5881940 29623248
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“OverFeat is described in [67] as an integrated framework for using CNN for classification, localization and detection.”
§ Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Computer-Aided Detection: CNN Architectures, Dataset Characteristics and Transfer Learning > Evaluations and Discussions > Evaluation of Five CNN Models Using ILD Classification
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- Not checked yetcites [67] Sermanet P., “ Overfeat: Integrated recognition, localization and detection using convolutional networks,” Proc. ICLR, 2014.
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“The main difference between our dataset preparation protocol and that from [22] is a more aggressive extraction of random views within a much larger range of FOVs.”
§ Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Computer-Aided Detection: CNN Architectures, Dataset Characteristics and Transfer Learning > Evaluations and Discussions > Thoracoabdominal Lymph Node Detection
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- Not checked yetcites [22] Roth H., “ Improving computer-aided detection using convolutional neural networks and random view aggregation,” IEEE Trans. Med. Imag.. PMC7340334 26441412
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“In abdominal LN detection, [22] obtains the best trade-off between its CNN model complexity and sampled data configuration.”
§ Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Computer-Aided Detection: CNN Architectures, Dataset Characteristics and Transfer Learning > Evaluations and Discussions > Thoracoabdominal Lymph Node Detection
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- Not checked yetcites [22] Roth H., “ Improving computer-aided detection using convolutional neural networks and random view aggregation,” IEEE Trans. Med. Imag.. PMC7340334 26441412
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“Although the ILD [37] and LTRC datasets [64] (used in [19]) were generated and annotated separately, they contain many common disease labels. For instance, the ILD disease classes emphysema (EM), ground glass (GG), fibrosis (FB), and micronodules (MN) belong to both datasets, and thus can be jointly trained/tested to form a larger and unified dataset.”
§ Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Computer-Aided Detection: CNN Architectures, Dataset Characteristics and Transfer Learning > Evaluations and Discussions > Interstitial Lung Disease Classification
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [37] Depeursinge A., “ Building a reference multimedia database for interstitial lung diseases,” Comput. Med. Imaging and. Grap., vol. 36, no. 3, pp. 227– 238, 2012. 21803548 source
- Not matchedcites [64] Holmes III D., Bartholmai B., Karwoski R., Zavaletta V., and Robb R., “ The lung tissue research consortium: An extensive open database containing histological, clinical, and radiological data to study chronic lung disease,” in MICCAI Open Sci. Workshop, 2006.
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“As shown in Fig. 1, abdominal LNs are surrounded by many other similar looking objects. Meanwhile, mediastinal LNs are more easily distinguishable, due to the images' larger spatial contexts.”
§ Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Computer-Aided Detection: CNN Architectures, Dataset Characteristics and Transfer Learning > Evaluations and Discussions > Thoracoabdominal Lymph Node Detection
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“GoogLeNet-RI-H performs poorly, as it is susceptible to over-fitting.”
§ Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Computer-Aided Detection: CNN Architectures, Dataset Characteristics and Transfer Learning > Evaluations and Discussions > Thoracoabdominal Lymph Node Detection
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“A segmentation label propagation method was recently proposed [47] to provide full pixel-wise labeling of the ILD data images.”
§ Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Computer-Aided Detection: CNN Architectures, Dataset Characteristics and Transfer Learning > Evaluations and Discussions > Interstitial Lung Disease Classification
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [47] Gao M., Lu L., Nogues I., Summers M. R., and Mollura D., “ Segmentation label propagation using deep convolutional neural networks and dense conditional random field,” Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Comput. Vis., pp. 1377– 1385, 2015. source
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“For ILD classification, the most critical performance bottlenecks are the challenge of cross-dataset learning and the limited patient population size.”
§ Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Computer-Aided Detection: CNN Architectures, Dataset Characteristics and Transfer Learning > Evaluations and Discussions > Interstitial Lung Disease Classification
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“Overfeat is the winning model of the ILSVRC 2013 in detection and classification tasks.”
§ Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Computer-Aided Detection: CNN Architectures, Dataset Characteristics and Transfer Learning > Evaluations and Discussions > Evaluation of Five CNN Models Using ILD Classification
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- Not checked yetcites [67] Sermanet P., “ Overfeat: Integrated recognition, localization and detection using convolutional networks,” Proc. ICLR, 2014.
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“The empirical evaluation, CNN model visualization, CNN performance analysis, and conclusive insights can be generalized to the design of high performance CAD systems for other medical imaging tasks.”
§ Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Computer-Aided Detection: CNN Architectures, Dataset Characteristics and Transfer Learning > Conclusion
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Fine-tuning an ImageNet pre-trained CNN model on medical image datasets had not yet been exploited at the time of the study.
“However, the fine-tuning of an ImageNet pre-trained CNN model on medical image datasets has not yet been exploited.”
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Obtaining datasets as comprehensively annotated as ImageNet in the medical imaging domain remains a challenge.
“However, obtaining datasets as comprehensively annotated as ImageNet in the medical imaging domain remains a challenge.”
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Some areas outside the lung appear in both healthy or diseased images.
“Some areas outside of the lung appear in both healthy or diseased images.”
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The low-attenuation CT window is useful for visualizing certain texture patterns of lung diseases, especially emphysema.
“The low-attenuation CT window is useful for visualizing certain texture patterns of lung diseases (especially emphysema).”
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Collecting and annotating large numbers of medical images still poses significant challenges.
“Collecting and annotating large numbers of medical images still poses significant challenges.”
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OverFeat and VGGNet may generate quantitative performance results ranked between AlexNet's and GoogLeNet's.
“Likewise, a reasonable assumption is that OverFeat and VGGNet may generate quantitative performance results ranked between AlexNet's and GoogLeNet's.”
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OverFeat's and VGGNet's performance levels fall between AlexNet's and GoogLeNet's.
“The reported results validate our assumption that OverFeat's and VGGNet's performance levels fall between AlexNet's and GoogLeNet's (this observation is consistent with the computer vision findings).”
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Both the ILD and ImageNet datasets use full-size images.
“Indeed, both datasets use full-size images.”
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CifarNet is designed for images with smaller dimensions (32×32 images), and thus is not catered to classification tasks involving 256×256 images.
“CifarNet is designed for images with smaller dimensions (32×32 images), and thus is not catered to classification tasks involving 256×256 images.”
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Medical datasets are often biased, in that the number of healthy samples is much larger than the number of diseased instances, or that the numbers of images per class are uneven.
“Medical datasets are often “biased”, in that the number of healthy samples is much larger than the number of diseased instances, or that the numbers of images per class are uneven.”
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“Transfer learning from natural images has been widely adopted for medical image classification Tajbakhsh et al. (2016); Shin et al. (2016); however the application to medical image segmentation has been scarce.”
From Embracing imperfect datasets: A review of deep learning solutions for medical image segmentation (2020) · cites this paper as Shin et al. (2016)
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“In general, shallow networks have been preferred in medical image analysis, when compared with very deep CNNs employed in computer vision applications [80] [81].”
From Medical image analysis using convolutional neural networks: a review (2018) · cites this paper as [80]
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“Healthcare applications of deep learning range from one-dimensional biosignal analysis [17] and the prediction of medical events, e.g. seizures [18] and cardiac arrests [19], to computer-aided detection [20] and diagnosis [21] supporting clinical decision making and survival analysis [22], to drug discovery [23] and as an aid in therapy selection and pharmacogenomics [24], to increased operational”
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“After first and second fully connected layers' dropout regularization layer [45] has been used to avoid further overfitting with a neuron dropout probability of 1-p, where p is the probability of neurons kept.”
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“Instead, a specially designed small network may be more suitable to the smaller-scale training datasets that are commonly encountered in medical imaging [155].”
From Deep Learning in Medical Ultrasound Analysis: A Review (2019) · cites this paper as [155]
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“Shin et al. [62] reported that they obtained best performance with transfer learning from pre-trained model on ImageNet dataset and fine-tuning on lymph node and interstitial lung disease rather than training from scratch.”
From Deep learning for brain MRI segmentation: state of the art and future directions (2017) · cites this paper as [62]
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“The convolutional encoder-decoder network using VGG16 shares many features with the commonly used U-Net network (29) but has unique advantages, including lower computation cost, presence of batch normalization layers to improve training efficiency, and more versatility for use as both a segmentation and classification network, which allows effective transfer learning in the current setup (30,31).”
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Five-model ensemble lists only four distinct CNNs
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“We also evaluate a simple ensemble by averaging the probability scores from five CNNs:”
“AlexNet-RI-H, AlexNet-TL-H, AlexNet-RI-H, GoogLeNet-TL-H and GoogLeNet-RI-L.”
GoogLeNet pooling-layer counts disagree
MinorThe figure caption says GoogLeNet contains three pooling layers, while the architecture description says it has two pooling layers outside its Inception layers.
“Googlenet [33] contains two convolution layers, three pooling layers, and nine inception layers.”
“Overall, GoogLeNet has two convolution layers, two pooling layers, and nine “Inception” layers.”
Table VIII labels its second task as both LN and ILD
MinorThe table caption calls the second task LN patch-level detection, but the corresponding column header calls it ILD-Patch.
“Table: Table VIII Classification accuracies for ILD slice and LN patch-level detection with “equal prior” and “biased prior”, using googlenet-TL”
“| | ILD-Slice | ILD-Patch |”
Reported mediastinal sensitivity differs from Table II
MinorThe paper reports 86% sensitivity at three false positives per patient, but Table II's best mediastinal TPR/3FP is 0.85, or 85%.
“We obtain 86% sensitivity on 3 false positives (FP) per patient”
“| Combined | 0.95 | 0.85 | 0.93 | 0.70 |”
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Transfer learning for automated optical inspection
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A survey on automated melanoma detection
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Review of Deep Learning Approaches for the Segmentation of Multiple Sclerosis Lesions on Brain MRI
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Network Traffic Anomaly Detection via Deep Learning
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A holistic overview of deep learning approach in medical imaging
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“For these reasons, transfer learning was widely used in medical imaging, for example a classification of the interstitial lung disease [61] and detecting the thoraco-abdominal lymph nodes from CT scans; it was found that transfer learning is efficient, even though the disparity between the medical…”
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“Transfer learning with ImageNet weights is a relatively common approach which has shown success in many medical imaging domains 35 .”
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RetractedApplications of deep learning for the analysis of medical data
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An Early Diagnosis of Oral Cancer based on Three-Dimensional Convolutional Neural Networks
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Vision-based defects detection for bridges using transfer learning and convolutional neural networks
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Computer aided diagnosis system using deep convolutional neural networks for ADHD subtypes
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Deep Learning Applications in Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Has the Future Become Present?
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Deep Learning Based Detection Tool for Impacted Mandibular Third Molar Teeth
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Building data-driven models with microstructural images: Generalization and interpretability
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Low‐Power Computing with Neuromorphic Engineering
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A Lightweight Convolutional Neural Network for Real-Time Facial Expression Detection
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AMSUnet: A neural network using atrous multi-scale convolution for medical image segmentation
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Improving Landslide Detection on SAR Data Through Deep Learning
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“2 million natural images have been successfully used to initialize DNN models for medical imaging tasks that can then be fine-tuned using a few hundred task-specific labeled medical images (Shin et al., 2016).”
MethodCT‐Based Automatic Spine Segmentation Using Patch‐Based Deep Learning
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“Tis improves the network’s accuracy and convergence rate during the model training [39].”
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“Transfer learning is a branch of machine learning that plays a major role in the medical field [200].”
Semi-Supervised Learning With Deep Embedded Clustering for Image Classification and Segmentation
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Multiple Feature Integration for Classification of Thoracic Disease in Chest Radiography
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Detection and localization of distal radius fractures: Deep learning system versus radiologists
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Convolutional neural network with spatial pyramid pooling for hand gesture recognition
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Robust deep learning seismic inversion with a priori initial model constraint
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Deep learning for segmentation in radiation therapy planning: a review
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Self-citationEnsemble Learners of Multiple Deep CNNs for Pulmonary Nodules Classification Using CT Images
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Fully automated carbonate petrography using deep convolutional neural networks
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Machine Learning for Medical Imaging
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Structure-preserving neural networks
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“A step in the process by which computers may examine a picture and assign it the proper label is image categorization [35–37].”
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VisNet: Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Forecasting Atmospheric Visibility
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A smart tele-cytology point-of-care platform for oral cancer screening
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Shape and margin-aware lung nodule classification in low-dose CT images via soft activation mapping
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Unsupervised Deep Anomaly Detection in Chest Radiographs
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Transfer Learning in Natural Language Processing
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Transfer Learning for Cell Nuclei Classification in Histopathology Images
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Artificial Intelligence and Mechanistic Modeling for Clinical Decision Making in Oncology
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Deep learning for detection of radiographic sacroiliitis: achieving expert-level performance
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A deep CNN model for anomaly detection and localization in wireless capsule endoscopy images
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Emerging Technologies for Next Generation Remote Health Care and Assisted Living
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Image biomarkers and explainable AI: handcrafted features versus deep learned features
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DMENet: Diabetic Macular Edema diagnosis using Hierarchical Ensemble of CNNs
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Reliable Mutual Distillation for Medical Image Segmentation Under Imperfect Annotations
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A Review of Automated Methods for the Detection of Sickle Cell Disease
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Lung nodules detection using semantic segmentation and classification with optimal features
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Autonomous Traffic Sign (ATSR) Detection and Recognition using Deep CNN
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Epileptic Seizure Detection Based on Stockwell Transform and Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory
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Metadata
- Authors
- Shin, H.-C., Roth, H. R., Gao, M., Lu, L., Xu, Z., Nogues, I., Yao, J., Mollura, D., & Summers, R. M.
- Affiliations
- National Institutes of Health (US)
- Corresponding author
- Shin, Hoo-Chang
- Venue
- IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging
- Published
- 2016-05
- Volume
- 35
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 1285-1298
- ISSN
- 0278-0062 (ISSN-L)
- 1558-254X
- PMC
- PMC4890616
- OpenAlex
- W2253429366
- Cited by
- 5,759
- References
- 104
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- journal article
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- en
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- IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (publishedVersion)
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- National Institutes of Health
- NIH Clinical Center (Z01CL040004)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › AI in cancer detection
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Advanced Neural Network Applications
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging › Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging
- Keywords
- computer-aided detection, deep convolutional neural networks, transfer learning, CNN architecture comparison, medical image classification, ImageNet pre-training, fine-tuning, lymph node detection, interstitial lung disease classification, computed tomography
- MeSH terms
- Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted, Humans, Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted, Lymph Nodes, Reproducibility of Results, Databases, Factual, Neural Networks, Computer, Lung Diseases, Interstitial
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
A language model drew the claims from the paper on 2026-10-09, under version 3 of the claim definition (model deepseek-v4.1-flash, prompt extract-v3).
A second model labelled each claim on 2026-10-09 (model jev-1.13-20260917, definition revision gold-guideline-v0.2).
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
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