AI Chest 4 All

Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2020 Jul:2020:1229-1233. doi: 10.1109/EMBC44109.2020.9175862.

Abstract

AIChest4All is the name of the model used to label and screening diseases in our area of focus, Thailand, including heart disease, lung cancer, and tuberculosis. This is aimed to aid radiologist in Thailand especially in rural areas, where there is immense staff shortages. Deep learning is used in our methodology to classify the chest X-ray images from datasets namely, NIH set, which is separated into 14 observations, and the Montgomery and Shenzhen set, which contains chest X-ray images of patients with tuberculosis, further supplemented by the dataset from Udonthani Cancer hospital and the National Chest Institute of Thailand. The images are classified into six categories: no finding, suspected active tuberculosis, suspected lung malignancy, abnormal heart and great vessels, Intrathoracic abnormal findings, and Extrathroacic abnormal findings. A total of 201,527 images were used. Results from testing showed that the accuracy values of the categories heart disease, lung cancer, and tuberculosis were 94.11%, 93.28%, and 92.32%, respectively with sensitivity values of 90.07%, 81.02%, and 82.33%, respectively and the specificity values were 94.65%, 94.04%, and 93.54%, respectively. In conclusion, the results acquired have sufficient accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity values to be used. Currently, AIChest4All is being used to help several of Thailand's government funded hospitals, free of charge.Clinical relevance- AIChest4All is aimed to aid radiologist in Thailand especially in rural areas, where there is immense staff shortages. It is being used to help several of Thailand's goverment funded hospitals, free of charege to screening heart disease, lung cancer, and tubeculosis with 94.11%, 93.28%, and 92.32% accuracy.

MeSH terms

  • Humans
  • Lung Neoplasms* / diagnostic imaging
  • Mass Screening
  • Sensitivity and Specificity
  • Thailand
  • Tuberculosis*