Classifying Pneumonia among Chest X-Rays Using Transfer Learning
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Chest radiography has become the modality of choice for diagnosing pneumonia. However, analyzing chest X-ray images may be tedious, time-consuming and requiring expert knowledge that might not be available in less-developed regions. therefore, computer-aided diagnosis systems are needed. Recently, many classification systems based on deep learning have been proposed. Despite their success, the high development cost for deep networks is still a hurdle for deployment. Deep transfer learning (or simply transfer learning) has the merit of reducing the development cost by borrowing architectures from trained models followed by slight fine-tuning of some layers. Nevertheless, whether deep transfer learning is effective over training from scratch in the medical setting remains a research question for many applications. In this work, we investigate the use of deep transfer learning to classify pneumonia among chest X-ray images. Experimental results demonstrated that, with slight fine-tuning, deep transfer learning brings performance advantage over training from scratch. Three models, ResNet-50, Inception V3 and DensetNet121, were trained separately through transfer learning and from scratch. The former can achieve a 4.1% to 52.5% larger area under the curve (AUC) than those obtained by the latter, suggesting the effectiveness of deep transfer learning for classifying pneumonia in chest X-ray images.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".