With an aging and growing population, the number of women requiring either screening or symptomatic mammograms is increasing. To reduce the number of mammograms that need to be read by a radiologist while keeping the diagnostic accuracy the same or better than current clinical practice, we develop Man and Machine Mammo…
Deep learning improves MRI analysis of MSK disorders.
problem Accurate and rapid analysis of musculoskeletal disorders from MRI scans.
method Convolutional neural networks (CNN) for automatic classification of knee abnormalities.
result Multi-view deep learning showed promising performance in classifying MSK abnormalities.
Deep learning system diagnoses AVNFH from plain radiographs.
problem Challenging AVNFH diagnosis from plain radiographs.
method Deep convolutional neural networks for end-to-end diagnosis.
result AVN-net achieves state-of-the-art AUC of 0.97 in AVNFH detection.
Novel method reduces radiomic data annotation needs.
problem Insufficient labeled radiomic data for disease diagnosis.
method Collaborative self-supervised learning with two pretext tasks.
result Outperforms other self-supervised methods on radiomic data.
Models extract relevant EHR snippets to aid radiologists in diagnosis.
problem Difficulty in identifying relevant patient record information for diagnosis.
method Distantly supervised transformer-based neural model for extractive summarization.
result Models yield better extractive summaries than unsupervised approaches.
CoroNet detects COVID-19 from chest X-rays with high accuracy.
problem Detecting COVID-19 from chest X-rays using limited testing kits.
method Proposes CoroNet, a deep neural network based on Xception architecture trained on a combined dataset of COVID-19 and pneumonia X-rays.
result CoroNet achieved an overall accuracy of 89.6% and precision/recall rates of 93%/98.2% for 4-class cases (COVID vs Pneumonia bacterial vs pneumonia viral vs normal).
We developed an automated deep learning system to detect hip fractures from frontal pelvic x-rays, an important and common radiological task. Our system was trained on a decade of clinical x-rays (~53,000 studies) and can be applied to clinical data, automatically excluding inappropriate and technically unsatisfactory …
Model identifies urgent radiology reports with high accuracy.
problem Lack of annotated training data for text analysis.
method Self-supervised contextual language representation using BERT.
result Model achieved 97.0% precision, 93.3% recall, and 95.1% F-measure.
Accurate identification and localization of abnormalities from radiology images play an integral part in clinical diagnosis and treatment planning. Building a highly accurate prediction model for these tasks usually requires a large number of images manually annotated with labels and finding sites of abnormalities. In …
Infrastructure monitors AI/ML radiology models across multiple sites.
problem Monitoring and improving AI/ML radiology models across multiple sites.
method Interactive radiology reporting, centralized cloud system, post-marketing surveillance.
result Efficient monitoring and iterative development of AI/ML models without radiologist burden.
Challenge aims to develop automated meningioma MRI segmentation models.
problem Lack of automated, objective tools for meningioma assessment.
method Develop and evaluate models on largest annotated dataset.
result Improved care of patients with meningioma through automated segmentation.
Deep learning is a branch of artificial intelligence where networks of simple interconnected units are used to extract patterns from data in order to solve complex problems. Deep learning algorithms have shown groundbreaking performance in a variety of sophisticated tasks, especially those related to images. They have …
The chest X-ray (CXR) is by far the most commonly performed radiological examination for screening and diagnosis of many cardiac and pulmonary diseases. There is an immense world-wide shortage of physicians capable of providing rapid and accurate interpretation of this study. A radiologist-driven analysis of over two m…
The paper introduces sanity tests to detect spurious correlations in AI-guided radiology systems.
problem Detecting when AI systems perform well on development data for the wrong reasons.
method Design and implementation of sanity tests to identify spurious correlations.
result Sanity tests can identify spurious correlations in AI-guided radiology systems.
Many radiological studies can reveal the presence of several co-existing abnormalities, each one represented by a distinct visual pattern. In this article we address the problem of learning a distance metric for plain radiographs that captures a notion of "radiological similarity": two chest radiographs are considered …
Motivated by the need to automate medical information extraction from free-text radiological reports, we present a bi-directional long short-term memory (BiLSTM) neural network architecture for modelling radiological language. The model has been used to address two NLP tasks: medical named-entity recognition (NER) and …
The computer-aided analysis of medical scans is a longstanding goal in the medical imaging field. Currently, deep learning has became a dominant methodology for supporting pathologists and radiologist. Deep learning algorithms have been successfully applied to digital pathology and radiology, nevertheless, there are st…
The study explores statistical methods to interpret radiological models and identify key features.
problem Interpreting complex radiological models for clinical use.
method Exploration of statistical techniques to assess relationships between radiomic features.
result Identification of key relationships and features for improved interpretability.
Gaussian Processes outperform other models in estimating uncertainty for radiology report observation detection.
problem Uncertainty quantification in automatic data labelling for semi-supervised learning in clinical NLP.
method Investigation of uncertainty estimates from various predictive models using NLPP and MMPCL metrics.
result Gaussian Processes provide superior performance in quantifying uncertainty for radiology report observation detection.
Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been successfully employed in recent years for the detection of radiological abnormalities in medical images such as plain x-rays. To date, most studies use CNNs on individual examinations in isolation and discard previously available clinical information. In this study we set …
Deep learning skin lesion classifier explained using CAVs.
problem Limited acceptance of deep learning CAD systems due to opaque decision-making.
method Mapped human understandable concepts to RECOD model using CAVs.
result Classifier learns and encodes disease-related concepts in its latent representation.
Model uses unsupervised learning to classify medical reports with less labeled data.
problem Lack of labeled data for fine-grained disease classification in medical reports.
method Developed a pipeline combining an unsupervised encoder-language model and a supervised classifier model.
result Improved classification accuracy with less labeled data compared to previous methods.
Early results in using convolutional neural networks (CNNs) on x-rays to diagnose disease have been promising, but it has not yet been shown that models trained on x-rays from one hospital or one group of hospitals will work equally well at different hospitals. Before these tools are used for computer-aided diagnosis i…
Study improves deep learning chest X-ray models by incorporating lateral views.
problem Lack of lateral views in training datasets limits deep learning performance.
method Used PadChest dataset with multiple views to explore merging methods.
result Incorporating lateral views increases model performance for 32 labels.
The MIMIC-CXR dataset is (to date) the largest released chest x-ray dataset consisting of 473,064 chest x-rays and 206,574 radiology reports collected from 63,478 patients. We present the results of training and evaluating a collection of deep convolutional neural networks on this dataset to recognize multiple common t…
Data labeling is currently a time-consuming task that often requires expert knowledge. In research settings, the availability of correctly labeled data is crucial to ensure that model predictions are accurate and useful. We propose relatively simple machine learning-based models that achieve high performance metrics in…
CheXpert++ improves CheXpert's accuracy and usability for medical radiology reports.
problem Infeasibility of obtaining ground truth labels for medical data.
method BERT-based approximation of CheXpert, addressing speed, differentiability, and probabilistic output.
result Achieves 99.81% parity with CheXpert, significantly faster, differentiable, and probabilistic.
Proposes ConRad model for lung cancer classification using radiomics and interpretable machine learning.
problem Lack of interpretability in deep neural networks for cancer diagnosis.
method Integration of radiomics and DNN-predicted biomarkers in interpretable classifiers (ConRad).
result ConRad models outperform CNNs in five-fold cross-validation.
QC methods improve reliability of machine learning-based image segmentation.
problem Inaccuracies in machine learning algorithms limit their clinical applicability.
method Analysis and validation of QC approaches for automatic segmentation.
result Aggregation of uncertainty and Dice prediction methods improved segmentation reliability.
Quantum computing improves fault diagnosis in industrial processes.
problem Fault detection and diagnosis in industrial process systems.
method Integrates quantum computing and deep learning to extract features and diagnose faults.
result Quantum-assisted deep learning achieves high fault detection rates (79.2% and 99.39%).
Recent trends focusing on Industry 4.0 concept and smart manufacturing arise a data-driven fault diagnosis as key topic in condition-based maintenance. Fault diagnosis is considered as an essential task in rotary machinery since possibility of an early detection and diagnosis of the faulty condition can save both time …
Conformal Alignment ensures trustworthy outputs from foundation models.
problem Ensuring outputs from foundation models align with human values in high-stakes tasks.
method A framework that trains an alignment predictor using reference data to select trustworthy outputs.
result Conformal Alignment accurately identifies trustworthy outputs via lightweight training over moderate reference data.
Proposes TPIS for early and low-cost TB vs. pneumonia diagnosis.
problem Challenges in differentiating TB from pneumonia.
method Two-step decision support system with stacked ensemble classifiers.
result TPIS outperforms other methods in early and final diagnosis.
Develops a data-driven fault diagnosis framework for time-series data.
problem Fault diagnosis of dynamic systems using imbalanced and unknown fault classes.
method Kullback-Leibler divergence, data-driven fault classification, open-set classification.
result Framework handles imbalanced datasets, class overlapping, and unknown faults.
Deep learning aids in autism diagnosis and rehabilitation using neuroimaging data.
problem Challenges in automated detection and rehabilitation of ASD using neuroimaging data.
method Deep learning techniques applied to neuroimaging data for ASD diagnosis and rehabilitation.
result Deep learning improves accuracy in ASD diagnosis and rehabilitation.
A method uses ITD and XGBoost for precise power transformer fault diagnosis.
problem Fault diagnosis of power transformers using DGA data.
method Ranking DGA parameters by skewness, extracting ITD features, and using an XGBoost classifier.
result The method achieves over 95% accuracy in classification.
Novel hybrid modeling combines ML and physics for real-time diagnosis.
problem Real-time diagnosis of complex systems.
method Combines machine learning and physics-based models to create reduced-order models.
result Generated models are two orders of magnitude simpler, improving efficiency.
Thanks to digitization of industrial assets in fleets, the ambitious goal of transferring fault diagnosis models fromone machine to the other has raised great interest. Solving these domain adaptive transfer learning tasks has the potential to save large efforts on manually labeling data and modifying models for new ma…
Counterfactual diagnosis improves medical accuracy and safety.
problem Existing diagnostic algorithms struggle with distinguishing correlation from causation.
method Reformulated diagnosis as a counterfactual inference task and derived new counterfactual diagnostic algorithms.
result Counterfactual diagnostic algorithms significantly improve accuracy and safety compared to standard Bayesian algorithms.
This paper studies the trade-off between model accuracy and coverage for diagnosis models used by patients.
problem Balancing accuracy and coverage in diagnosis models for patient use.
method Learned diagnosis models with varying coverage from EHR data.
result A 1% drop in top-3 accuracy for every 10 diseases added to the coverage.
We estimate treatment cost-savings from early cancer diagnosis. For breast, lung, prostate and colorectal cancers and melanoma, which account for more than 50% of new incidences projected in 2017, we combine published cancer treatment cost estimates by stage with incidence rates by stage at diagnosis. We extrapolate to…
Machine learning aids in diagnosing Parkinson's disease with higher accuracy.
problem Subjectivity in traditional PD diagnosis methods and missed early symptoms.
method Machine learning applied to various data modalities for PD and control group classification.
result Machine learning methods show high potential for improving PD diagnosis.
Optimizes test set size for accurate diagnosis using machine learning.
problem Determining the minimum test set size for accurate diagnosis.
method Proposes machine learning methods (LASSO and SVM) to predict optimal test set size.
result SVM achieves 90.4% accuracy with a reduced test set by 35.24%.
Study on diagnosing unseen medical conditions using open-set learning.
problem Training models for unseen medical conditions is impractical.
method Frame diagnosis as an open-set learning problem, compare state-of-the-art approaches, and experiment with distributed training data.
result Explicitly modeling unseen conditions leads to consistent gains, but optimal training strategy varies.
An integrated approach is proposed across visual and textual data to both determine and justify a medical diagnosis by a neural network. As deep learning techniques improve, interest grows to apply them in medical applications. To enable a transition to workflows in a medical context that are aided by machine learning,…
Residual generation helps diagnose engine faults using neural networks.
problem Fault diagnosis in engines with unknown classes and limited data.
method Grey-box recurrent neural networks incorporating physical insights.
result Improved fault classification and root cause identification.
A hybrid deep learning model improves ESD diagnosis accuracy.
problem Automated diagnosis of Erythemato-Squamous Disease (ESD) is challenging.
method Proposes Derm2Vec, a hybrid model combining Autoencoders and Deep Neural Networks.
result Derm2Vec outperforms other methods in real-world dermatology dataset.
Machine learning for ASD diagnosis using morphological MRI networks.
problem Challenging to diagnose ASD using MRI due to heterogeneity and incomplete network neuroscience.
method Crowdsourced Kaggle competition to develop and benchmark ML pipelines.
result First-ranked team achieved 70% accuracy, 72.5% sensitivity, and 67.5% specificity.