Deep Learning at Chest Radiography: Automated Classification of Pulmonary Tuberculosis by Using Convolutional Neural Networks
In this paper , the authors explore the use of Deep Convolutional Neural Networls (DCNN) in classifying Tuberculosis (TB) in chest radiographs. One of the advantages of deep learning is its ability to excel with high dimensional datasets, such as images, which can be represented at multiple levels. Dataset Four deidentified HIPAA-compliant datasets were used in this study that were exempted from review by the institutional review board, which consisted of 1007 posteroanterior chest radiographs. DCNN Models and Training AlexNet and GoogLeNet models, including pre-trained (on ImageNet from Caffe Model Zoo) and untrained models were used in the study. It was found that the AUCs of the pretrained networks were greater. The following solver parameters were used for training: 120 epochs; base learning rate for untrained models and for pretrained models, 0.01 and 0.001, respectively with stochastic gradient descent. Both of the DCNNs in this studied used dropout or model regularizati