Classification of chest X-ray images by incorporation of medical domain knowledge into operation branch networks

Abstract Background This study was conducted to alleviate a common difficulty in chest X-ray image diagnosis: The attention region in a convolutional neural network (CNN) does not often match the doctor’s point of focus. The method presented herein, which guides the area of attention in CNN to a med...

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Main Authors: Takumasa Tsuji, Yukina Hirata, Kenya Kusunose, Masataka Sata, Shinobu Kumagai, Kenshiro Shiraishi, Jun’ichi Kotoku
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2023-05-01
Series:BMC Medical Imaging
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12880-023-01019-0