A Novel Architecture for Feature Extraction and Convolution for Image Segmentation of Pathology Detection from Chest X-Ray Images
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Neural networks are widely used for the automation of analysis and classification tasks in the field of medical image processing. They have successfully achieved state of the art performance in medical image segmentation and feature extraction techniques. This automatic classification in the medical field is very helpful in developing tools for early detection of dreadful pathologies, like tuberculosis and pneumonia, in areas where access to doctors or radiologists is scarce. In this work, we propose a novel approach for the classification of lung pathologies like tuberculosis and pneumonia by masking them in boundary boxes using convolutional neural networks. Our solution provides a flexible way, by using saved trained models that could be directly employed by the Radiologists. In this paper, we describe the architecture required to achieve such a scalable model which could be used by doctors and radiologists without too much training in the technologies of the times. The proposed convolutional architecture consists of connected components which are parallel residual blocks and sampling layers. The images do not lose their original quality, giving the best error free predictions. We visualize this model to be deployed in labs, providing access to medical imaging expertise to some of the most remote places in the world.
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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 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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".