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Area of Science:

  • Medical Imaging
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Infectious Disease Diagnostics

Background:

  • The COVID-19 pandemic underscored the need for accurate screening tools for novel respiratory illnesses.
  • Deep learning excels at classifying pneumonia from chest X-rays, but differentiating infection sources (viral, bacterial) remains challenging.
  • Identifying the specific pathogen is crucial for effective clinical diagnosis and treatment.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate the efficacy of established neural network architectures in classifying pneumonia from chest X-rays.
  • To investigate the potential of transfer learning for distinguishing between viral (including SARS-CoV-2) and bacterial pneumonia sources.
  • To compare the performance of various deep learning models on a combined dataset of chest X-ray images.

Main Methods:

  • Fine-tuned 12 ImageNet pre-trained models for chest X-ray classification.
  • Utilized a combined dataset of chest X-rays from healthy individuals, viral pneumonia (generic and SARS-CoV-2), and bacterial pneumonia.
  • Assessed model performance using metrics like f1-score, AUROC, and confusion matrices, including Grad-CAM for interpretability.

Main Results:

  • Most evaluated architectures achieved significant performance in discriminating between the four classes (healthy, viral, bacterial pneumonia).
  • An average f1-score of up to 84.46% was reached in classifying pneumonia sources.
  • Execution times, robustness assessments with reduced training data, and activation maps were analyzed for informed model comparison.

Conclusions:

  • Established deep learning architectures effectively diagnose pneumonia sources using chest X-rays, with a focus on viral (SARS-CoV-2) and bacterial pathogens.
  • The transfer learning paradigm demonstrates significant potential for diagnosing pneumonia and could be vital for future unknown infectious diseases.
  • The study provides a comprehensive comparison of models, aiding in the selection of robust diagnostic tools.