A Robust CNN Framework with Dual Feedback Feature Accumulation for Detecting Pneumonia Opacity from Chest X-ray Images

2020/10/05 by Md. Jahin Alam, Alam, Md. Jahin, Shams Nafisa Ali +3
Engineering · Medicine · #COVID-19 diagnosis using AI #FOS: Electrical engineering #Image and Video Processing (eess.IV) #Lung Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment #Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging #eess.IV #electronic engineering #information engineering

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2103.14461

arxiv created 2020/10/05 · openalex publication_date 2020/10/05 · arxiv updated 2021/03/29 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

Pneumonia is one of the most acute respiratory diseases having remarkably high prevalence and mortality rate. Chest X-ray (CXR) has been widely utilized for the diagnosis of this disease owing to its availability, diagnostic speed and accuracy. However, even for an expert radiologist, it is quite challenging to readily determine pneumonia opacity by examining CXRs. Therefore, this study has been structured to automate the pneumonia detection process by introducing a robust deep learning framework. The proposed network comprises of Process Convolution (Pro_Conv) blocks for feature accumulation inside Dual Feedback (DF) blocks to propagate the feature maps towards a viable detection. Experimental analysis showcase: (1) the proposed network proficiently distinguishes between normal and pneumonia opacity containing CXRs with the mean accuracy, sensitivity and specificity of 97.78%, 98.84% and 95.04%, respectively; (2) the network is constructed with significantly low parameters than the traditional ImageNets to reduce memory consumption for deployment in memory constrained mobile platforms; (3) the trade-off between accuracy and number of parameters of the model outperforms the considered classical networks by a remarkable margin; and (4) the false-negatives are lower than the false-positives (both of which are low in count) which prove the model's low-fatality prediction. Hence, the proposed network can be deployed for a rapid screening of pneumonia and can act as a great assistive tool for the radiologists in the diagnosis process.

Citations

• Very Deep Convolutional Networks for Large-Scale Image Recognition
• CheXNet: Radiologist-Level Pneumonia Detection on Chest X-Rays with Deep Learning

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