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(CVPR 2017) ChestX-ray8:Hospital-scale Chest X-ray Database and Benchmarks on Weakly-Supervised Classification and Localization of Common Thorax Diseases

Keyword [ChestX-ray14]

Wang X, Peng Y, Lu L, et al. Chestx-ray8: Hospital-scale chest x-ray database and benchmarks on weakly-supervised classification and localization of common thorax diseases[C]//Proceedings of the IEEE conference on computer vision and pattern recognition. 2017: 2097-2106.



1. Overview


1.1. Motivation

  • there is still significant room for performance improvement when underlying challenges become greater (0.413 on COCO vs 0.884 on VOC)

In this paper, it present a new chest X-ray database (ChestX-ray8)

  • comprise 108,948 frontal-view X-ray images of 32,717 unique patients
  • with the text-mined 8 disease image labels
  • 24,636 images contain one or more pathologies
  • 84,312 images are normal cases, label [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0]
  • resize image dimension from 3000x2000 (typical for X-ray image) to 1024x1024 bitmap



  • some connection between different pathologies, which agree with radiologists’s domain knowledge, such as Infiltration is often associated with Atelectasis and Effusion

1.2. DCNN Framework



  • exploit Global Average Pooling to visualize the region

1.2.1. Log-Sum-Exp (LSE) Pooling



  • serve as an adjustable option between max pooling (r→ ∞) and average pooling (r→ 0)
  • LSE suffers from overflow/underflow problems, so


1.3. Loss Function

one of 3 standard loss function

  • Hinge Loss (HL)
  • Euclidean Loss (EL)
  • Cross Entropy Loss (CEL)

1.3.1. Sample-Balance

  • W-CLE




2. Experiments


2.1. Different Pooling Strategy



  • r=10 is best

2.2. Comparison



  • W-CEL is better than CEL