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DeepRadiologyNet: Radiologist Level Pathology Detection in CT Head Images (arxiv.org)
3 points by mongodude on Nov 28, 2017 | hide | past | pdf | discuss on HN

In plain words: A system trained on millions of CT head scans learns to spot 30 kinds of findings and automatically reports the scans it is most sure about, cutting radiologists' workload. On those high-confidence scans it missed 0.0367% of serious problems, versus an estimated 0.82% for radiologists.

Abstract

We describe a system to automatically filter clinically significant findings from computerized tomography (CT) head scans, operating at performance levels exceeding that of practicing radiologists. Our system, named DeepRadiologyNet, builds on top of deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) trained using approximately 3.5 million CT head images gathered from over 24,000 studies taken from January 1, 2015 to August 31, 2015 and January 1, 2016 to April 30 2016 in over 80 clinical sites. For our initial system, we identified 30 phenomenological traits to be recognized in the CT scans. To test the system, we designed a clinical trial using over 4.8 million CT head images (29,925 studies), completely disjoint from the training and validation set, interpreted by 35 US Board Certified radiologists with specialized CT head experience. We measured clinically significant error rates to ascertain whether the performance of DeepRadiologyNet was comparable to or better than that of US Board Certified radiologists. DeepRadiologyNet achieved a clinically significant miss rate of 0.0367% on automatically selected high-confidence studies. Thus, DeepRadiologyNet enables significant reduction in the workload of human radiologists by automatically filtering studies and reporting on the high-confidence ones at an operating point well below the literal error rate for US Board Certified radiologists, estimated at 0.82%.

Jameson Merkow, Robert Lufkin, Kim Nguyen, Stefano Soatto, Zhuowen Tu, Andrea Vedaldi
arXiv:1711.09313 · cs.CV · submitted Nov 26, 2017 · updated Dec 2, 2017
abstract · pdf · html · 22 pages with references, 6 figures, 2 tables

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