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Multi-Label Classification of Thoracic Diseases using Dense Convolutional Network on Chest Radiographs

8 Feb 2022arXiv:2202.03583archive 2025-07-28

Dipkamal Bhusal, Sanjeeb Prasad Panday

Traditional methods of identifying pathologies in X-ray images rely heavily on skilled human interpretation and are often time-consuming. The advent of deep learning techniques has enabled the development of automated disease diagnosis systems. Still, the performance of such systems is opaque to end-users and limited to detecting a single pathology. In this paper, we propose a multi-label disease prediction model that allows the detection of more than one pathology at a given test time. We use a dense convolutional neural network (DenseNet) for disease diagnosis. Our proposed model achieved the highest AUC score of 0.896 for the condition Cardiomegaly with an accuracy of 0.826, while the lowest AUC score was obtained for Nodule, at 0.655 with an accuracy of 0.66. To build trust in decision-making, we generated heatmaps on X-rays to visualize the regions where the model paid attention to make certain predictions. Our proposed automated disease prediction model obtained highly confident high-performance metrics in multi-label disease prediction tasks.

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Decision MakingDisease PredictionImage ClassificationMUlTI-LABEL-ClASSIFICATIONMedical DiagnosisMulti-Label ClassificationPrediction

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