Research on chest radiography recognition model based on deep learning

Math Biosci Eng. 2022 Aug 16;19(11):11768-11781. doi: 10.3934/mbe.2022548.

Abstract

With the development of medical informatization and against the background of the spread of global epidemic, the demand for automated chest X-ray detection by medical personnel and patients continues to increase. Although the rapid development of deep learning technology has made it possible to automatically generate a single conclusive sentence, the results produced by existing methods are not reliable enough due to the complexity of medical images. To solve this problem, this paper proposes an improved RCLN (Recurrent Learning Network) model as a solution. The model can generate high-level conclusive impressions and detailed descriptive findings sentence-by-sentence and realize the imitation of the doctoros standard tone by combining a convolutional neural network (CNN) with a long short-term memory (LSTM) network through a recurrent structure, and adding a multi-head attention mechanism. The proposed algorithm has been experimentally verified on publicly available chest X-ray images from the Open-i image set. The results show that it can effectively solve the problem of automatic generation of colloquial medical reports.

Keywords: convolutional neural network (CNN); long short-term memory (LSTM); medical; recurrent learning network (RCLN).

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms
  • Deep Learning*
  • Humans
  • Neural Networks, Computer
  • Radiography