Classification and Visualisation of Normal and Abnormal Radiographs; A Comparison between Eleven Convolutional Neural Network Architectures.

Journal: Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
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Abstract

This paper investigates the classification of radiographic images with eleven convolutional neural network (CNN) architectures (). The CNNs were used to classify a series of wrist radiographs from the Stanford Musculoskeletal Radiographs (MURA) dataset into two classes-normal and abnormal. The architectures were compared for different hyper-parameters against accuracy and Cohen's kappa coefficient. The best two results were then explored with data augmentation. Without the use of augmentation, the best results were provided by Inception-ResNet-v2 (Mean accuracy = 0.723, Mean kappa = 0.506). These were significantly improved with augmentation to Inception-ResNet-v2 (Mean accuracy = 0.857, Mean kappa = 0.703). Finally, Class Activation Mapping was applied to interpret activation of the network against the location of an anomaly in the radiographs.

Authors

  • Ananda Ananda
    giCentre, Department of Computer Science, School of Mathematics, Computer Science and Engineering, City, University of London, London EC1V 0HB, UK.
  • Kwun Ho Ngan
    giCentre, Department of Computer Science, School of Mathematics, Computer Science and Engineering, City, University of London, London EC1V 0HB, UK.
  • Cefa Karabağ
    Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, School of Mathematics, Computer Science and Engineering, City, University of London, London EC1V 0HB, UK.
  • Aram Ter-Sarkisov
    CitAI Research Centre, Department of Computer Science, School of Mathematics, Computer Science and Engineering, City, University of London, London EC1V 0HB, UK.
  • Eduardo Alonso
  • Constantino Carlos Reyes-Aldasoro
    Senior Lecturer in Biomedical Image Analysis giCentre, Department of Computer Science, School of Science and Technology City, University of London, London, United Kingdom.