Development of Debiasing Technique for Lung Nodule Chest X-ray Datasets to Generalize Deep Learning Models

Screening programs for early lung cancer diagnosis are uncommon, primarily due to the challenge of reaching at-risk patients located in rural areas far from medical facilities. To overcome this obstacle, a comprehensive approach is needed that combines mobility, low cost, speed, accuracy, and privacy. One potential solution lies in combining the chest X-ray imaging mode with federated deep learning, ensuring that no single data source can bias the model adversely. This study presents a pre-processing pipeline designed to debias chest X-ray images, thereby enhancing internal classification and external generalization. The pipeline employs a pruning mechanism to train a deep learning model for nodule detection, utilizing the most informative images from a publicly available lung nodule X-ray dataset. Histogram equalization is used to remove systematic differences in image brightness and contrast. Model training is then performed using combinations of lung field segmentation, close cropping, and rib/bone suppression. The resulting deep learning models, generated through this pre-processing pipeline, demonstrate successful generalization on an independent lung nodule dataset. By eliminating confounding variables in chest X-ray images and suppressing signal noise from the bone structures, the proposed deep learning lung nodule detection algorithm achieves an external generalization accuracy of 89%. This approach paves the way for the development of a low-cost and accessible deep learning-based clinical system for lung cancer screening.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:23

Enthalten in:

Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) - 23(2023), 14 vom: 21. Juli

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Horry, Michael J [VerfasserIn]
Chakraborty, Subrata [VerfasserIn]
Pradhan, Biswajeet [VerfasserIn]
Paul, Manoranjan [VerfasserIn]
Zhu, Jing [VerfasserIn]
Loh, Hui Wen [VerfasserIn]
Barua, Prabal Datta [VerfasserIn]
Acharya, U Rajendra [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Chest X-ray
Confounding bias
Deep learning
Federated learning
Journal Article
Lung cancer
Model generalization

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Date Completed 31.07.2023

Date Revised 01.08.2023

published: Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.3390/s23146585

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM36014747X