ZHANG Chiming, WANG Qingfeng, LIU Zhiqin, HUANG Jun, CHEN Bo, FU Jie, ZHOU Ying
Chest X-ray is commonly used in the examination of multiple types of frequently occurring chest diseases.However,there is high difference and diversity of chest diseases in pathological morphology,size and location,and the ratio of disease samples is imbalanced.So it is challenging to detect and locate chest diseases by deep learning.To address the above problems,a diagnostic algorithm for chest diseases is proposed.Firstly,the adaptive feature recalibration is implemented through the squeeze-excitation module to improve the fine-grained classification ability of the network.Secondly,the spatial mapping ability of the pathological features of the network is enhanced by the global max-average pooling layer.Then the focus loss function is used to reduce the weight of easily classified samples,so that the model can focus more on the learning of easily misclassified samples in training.Finally,the visualized location of weakly supervised lesion areas is implemented through the Gradient-weighted Class Activation Mapping(GCAM),providing corresponding visual interpretation of network prediction results.Training and evaluation results on the official data division criteria of ChestX-Ray14 show that the proposed algorithm has excellent performance in the diagnosis of 14 frequently occurring chest diseases with an average AUC of 0.83.