Pneumonia is part of the main diseases causing the death of children. It is generally diagnosed through chest Xray images. With the development of Deep Learning (DL), the diagnosis of pneumonia based on DL has received extensive attention. However, due to the small difference between pneumonia and normal images, the performance of DL methods could be improved. This research proposes a new fine-grained Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) for children's pneumonia diagnosis (FG-CPD). Firstly, the fine-grained CNN classification which can handle the slight difference in images is investigated. To obtain the raw images from the real-world chest X-ray data, the YOLOv4 algorithm is trained to detect and position the chest part in the raw images. Secondly, a novel attention network is proposed, named SGNet, which integrates the spatial information and channel information of the images to locate the discriminative parts in the chest image for expanding the difference between pneumonia and normal images. Thirdly, the automatic data augmentation method is adopted to increase the diversity of the images and avoid the overfitting of FG-CPD. The FG-CPD has been tested on the public Chest X-ray 2017 dataset, and the results show that it has achieved great effect. Then, the FG-CPD is tested on the real chest X-ray images from children aged 3-12 years ago from Tongji Hospital. The results show that FG-CPD has achieved up to 96.91% accuracy, which can validate the potential of the FG-CPD.
基金:
Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) [51805192]; Major Special Science and Technology Project of Hubei Province [2020AEA009]; State Key Laboratory of Digital Manufacturing Equipment and Technology (DMET) of Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) [DMETKF2020029]
第一作者单位:[1]China Univ Geosci, Sch Mech Engn & Elect Informat, Wuhan 430074, Peoples R China
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推荐引用方式(GB/T 7714):
Zhang Yang,Qiu Liru,Zhu Yongkai,et al.A New Childhood Pneumonia Diagnosis Method Based on Fine-Grained Convolutional Neural Network[J].CMES-COMPUTER MODELING IN ENGINEERING & SCIENCES.2022,133(3):873-894.doi:10.32604/cmes.2022.022322.
APA:
Zhang, Yang,Qiu, Liru,Zhu, Yongkai,Wen, Long&Luo, Xiaoping.(2022).A New Childhood Pneumonia Diagnosis Method Based on Fine-Grained Convolutional Neural Network.CMES-COMPUTER MODELING IN ENGINEERING & SCIENCES,133,(3)
MLA:
Zhang, Yang,et al."A New Childhood Pneumonia Diagnosis Method Based on Fine-Grained Convolutional Neural Network".CMES-COMPUTER MODELING IN ENGINEERING & SCIENCES 133..3(2022):873-894