Abstract
Bone suppression in chest x-rays is an important processing step that can often improve visual detection of lung pathologies hidden under ribs or clavicle shadows. Current diagnostic imaging protocol does not include hardware-based bone suppression, hence the need for a software-based solution. This paper evaluates various deep learning models adapted for bone suppression task, namely, we implemented several state-of-the-art deep learning architectures: convolution autoencoder, U-net, FPN, cGAN; augmented them with domain-specific denoising techniques, such as wavelet decomposition, with the aim to identify the optimal solution for chest x-ray analysis. Our results show that wavelet decomposition does not improve the rib suppression, “skip connections” modification outperforms baseline autoencoder approach with and without the usage of the wavelet decomposition, the residual models are trained faster than plain models and achieve higher validation scores.
This research was supported by the Russian Science Foundation under Grant No. 18-71-10072.
I. Sirazitdinov and K. Kubrak—Equal contribution
I. Sirazitdinov—Currently with Philips Research, Skolkovo, Russia.
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Sirazitdinov, I., Kubrak, K., Kiselev, S., Tolkachev, A., Kholiavchenko, M., Ibragimov, B. (2020). Evaluation of Deep Learning Methods for Bone Suppression from Dual Energy Chest Radiography. In: Farkaš, I., Masulli, P., Wermter, S. (eds) Artificial Neural Networks and Machine Learning – ICANN 2020. ICANN 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12396. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61609-0_20
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