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Pneumothorax (collapsed lung or dropped lung) is an urgent situation and can be life-threatening. It is mostly diagnosed by chest X-ray images. Detecting Pneumothorax on chest X-ray images is challenging, as it requires the expertise of radiologists. Such expertise is time-consuming and expensive to obtain. The recent release of big medical image datasets with labels enabled the Deep Neural Network to be trained to detect diseases autonomously. As the trend moves on, it is expected to foresee more and more medical image big dataset will appear. However, the major limitation is that these datasets have different labels and settings. The know-how to transfer the knowledge learnt from one Deep Neural Network to another, i.e. Deep Transfer Learning, is becoming more and more important. In this study, we explored the use of Deep Transfer Learning to detect Pneumothorax from chest X-ray images. We proposed a model architecture tCheXNet, a Deep Neural Network with 122 layers. Other than training from scratch, we used a training strategy to transfer knowledge learnt in CheXNet to tCheXNet. In our experiments, tCheXNet achieved 10% better in ROC comparing to CheXNet on a testing set which is verified by three board-certified radiologists, in which the training time was only 10 epochs. The source code is available in https://github.com/antoniosehk/tCheXNet.
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Sze-To, A., Wang, Z. (2019). tCheXNet: Detecting Pneumothorax on Chest X-Ray Images Using Deep Transfer Learning. In: Karray, F., Campilho, A., Yu, A. (eds) Image Analysis and Recognition. ICIAR 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11663. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27272-2_28
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