Record

Title:

Multi-branch fusion auxiliary

learning for the detection of
pneumonia from chest X-ray
images.
Authors:
Liu J; Department of Digital Medicine, School of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Medicine,
Army Medical University (Third Military Medical University), Chongqing, 400038, China.
Qi J; Department of Digital Medicine, School of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Medicine,
Army Medical University (Third Military Medical University), Chongqing, 400038, China.
Chen W; Department of Radiology, Southwest Hospital, Army Medical University (Third Military
Medical University), Chongqing, 400038, China.
Nian Y; Department of Digital Medicine, School of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Medicine,
Army Medical University (Third Military Medical University), Chongqing, 400038, China. Electronic
address: yjnian@tmmu.edu.cn.
Source:
Computers in biology and medicine [Comput Biol Med] 2022 Aug; Vol. 147, pp. 105732. Date of
Electronic Publication: 2022 Jun 15.
Publication Type:
Journal Article
Language:
English
Journal Info:
Publisher: Elsevier Country of Publication: United States NLM ID: 1250250 Publication Model:
Print-Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1879-0534 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 00104825 NLM
ISO Abbreviation: Comput Biol Med Subsets: MEDLINE
Imprint Name(s):
Publication: New York : Elsevier
Original Publication: New York, Pergamon Press.
MeSH Terms:
COVID-19*/diagnostic imaging
Deep Learning*
Pneumonia, Viral*/diagnostic imaging
Humans ; SARS-CoV-2 ; X-Rays
Abstract:
Lung infections caused by bacteria and viruses are infectious and require timely screening and
isolation, and different types of pneumonia require different treatment plans. Therefore, finding a
rapid and accurate screening method for lung infections is critical. To achieve this goal, we
proposed a multi-branch fusion auxiliary learning (MBFAL) method for pneumonia detection from
chest X-ray (CXR) images. The MBFAL method was used to perform two tasks through a double-
branch network. The first task was to recognize the absence of pneumonia (normal), COVID-19,
other viral pneumonia and bacterial pneumonia from CXR images, and the second task was to
recognize the three types of pneumonia from CXR images. The latter task was used to assist the
learning of the former task to achieve a better recognition effect. In the process of auxiliary
parameter updating, the feature maps of different branches were fused after sample screening
through label information to enhance the model's ability to recognize case of pneumonia without
impacting its ability to recognize normal cases. Experiments show that an average classification
accuracy of 95.61% is achieved using MBFAL. The single class accuracy for normal, COVID-19,
other viral pneumonia and bacterial pneumonia was 98.70%, 99.10%, 96.60% and 96.80%,
respectively, and the recall was 97.20%, 98.60%, 96.10% and 89.20%, respectively, using the
MBFAL method. Compared with the baseline model and the model constructed using the above
methods separately, better results for the rapid screening of pneumonia were achieved using
MBFAL.
(Copyright © 2022 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.)
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Contributed Indexing:
Keywords: Auxiliary learning; Deep learning; Feature fusion; Multi-task learning; Pneumonia
Entry Date(s):
Date Created: 20220702 Date Completed: 20220713 Latest Revision: 20220716
Update Code:
20220719
PubMed Central ID:
PMC9212341
DOI:
10.1016/j.compbiomed.2022.105732
PMID:
35779478