Deep Learning: An Update for Radiologists.

Journal: Radiographics : a review publication of the Radiological Society of North America, Inc
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Abstract

Deep learning is a class of machine learning methods that has been successful in computer vision. Unlike traditional machine learning methods that require hand-engineered feature extraction from input images, deep learning methods learn the image features by which to classify data. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs), the core of deep learning methods for imaging, are multilayered artificial neural networks with weighted connections between neurons that are iteratively adjusted through repeated exposure to training data. These networks have numerous applications in radiology, particularly in image classification, object detection, semantic segmentation, and instance segmentation. The authors provide an update on a recent primer on deep learning for radiologists, and they review terminology, data requirements, and recent trends in the design of CNNs; illustrate building blocks and architectures adapted to computer vision tasks, including generative architectures; and discuss training and validation, performance metrics, visualization, and future directions. Familiarity with the key concepts described will help radiologists understand advances of deep learning in medical imaging and facilitate clinical adoption of these techniques. RSNA, 2021.

Authors

  • Phillip M Cheng
    From the Department of Radiology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA.
  • Emmanuel Montagnon
  • Rikiya Yamashita
    Artera, Inc., Los Altos, CA.
  • Ian Pan
    Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University, Providence, RI.
  • Alexandre Cadrin-Chênevert
    Department of Medical Imaging, CISSS Lanaudière, Université Laval, Joliette, Québec, Canada.
  • Francisco Perdigón Romero
    From the Department of Radiology, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, Calif (P.M.C.); Research Center (E.M., F.P.R., S.K., A.T.) and Department of Radiology (A.T.), Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal, 1058-2117 rue Saint-Denis, Montréal, QC, Canada H2X 3J4; Department of Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, Calif (R.Y.); Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University, Providence, RI (I.P.); Department of Medical Imaging, CISSS Lanaudière, Université Laval, Joliette, Québec, Canada (A.C.C., S.K.); École Polytechnique, Montréal, Québec, Canada (F.P.R.); and AFX Medical, Montréal, Québec, Canada (G.C.).
  • Gabriel Chartrand
    Imagia Inc., Montréal, Canada.
  • Samuel Kadoury
    École Polytechnique de Montréal, Montreal, Canada. samuel.kadoury@polymtl.ca.
  • An Tang
    Centre de recherche du Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CRCHUM), Montreal, Canada.