Classification of radiological patterns of tuberculosis with a Convolutional neural network in x-ray images

Authors

  • Adrian Trueba Espinosa Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México
  • Jessica Sanchez -Arrazola
  • Jair Cervantes
  • Farid Garcia-Lamont
  • José Sergio Ruiz Castilla

Abstract

In this paper we propose the classification of radiological patterns with the presence of tuberculosis in X-ray images, it was observed that two to six patterns (consolidation, fibrosis, opacity, opacity, pleural, nodules and cavitations) are present in the radiographs of the patients. It is important to mention that species specialists consider the type of TB pattern in order to provide appropriate treatment. It should be noted that not all medical centres have specialists who can immediately interpret radiological patterns. Considering the above, the aim is to classify patterns by means of a convolutional neural network to help make a more accurate diagnosis on X-rays, so that doctors can recommend immediate treatment and thus avoid infecting more people. For the classification of tuberculosis patterns, a proprietary convolutional neural network (CNN) was proposed and compared against the VGG16, InceptionV3 and ResNet-50 architectures, which were selected based on the results of other radiograph classification research [1]–[3] . The results obtained for the Macro-averange AUC-SVM metric for the proposed architecture and InceptionV3 were 0.80, and for VGG16 it was 0.75, and for the ResNet-50 network it was 0.79. The proposed architecture has better classification results, as does InceptionV3.

Keywords

Tuberculosis patterns, Convolutional neural networks, Chest X-rays

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2024-07-09

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