Few-shot learning for COVID-19 Chest X-Ray Classification with Imbalanced Data: An Inter vs. Intra Domain Study

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Autori principali: Galán-Cuenca, Alejandro, Gallego, Antonio Javier, Saval-Calvo, Marcelo, Pertusa, Antonio
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author Galán-Cuenca, Alejandro
Gallego, Antonio Javier
Saval-Calvo, Marcelo
Pertusa, Antonio
author_facet Galán-Cuenca, Alejandro
Gallego, Antonio Javier
Saval-Calvo, Marcelo
Pertusa, Antonio
contents Medical image datasets are essential for training models used in computer-aided diagnosis, treatment planning, and medical research. However, some challenges are associated with these datasets, including variability in data distribution, data scarcity, and transfer learning issues when using models pre-trained from generic images. This work studies the effect of these challenges at the intra- and inter-domain level in few-shot learning scenarios with severe data imbalance. For this, we propose a methodology based on Siamese neural networks in which a series of techniques are integrated to mitigate the effects of data scarcity and distribution imbalance. Specifically, different initialization and data augmentation methods are analyzed, and four adaptations to Siamese networks of solutions to deal with imbalanced data are introduced, including data balancing and weighted loss, both separately and combined, and with a different balance of pairing ratios. Moreover, we also assess the inference process considering four classifiers, namely Histogram, $k$NN, SVM, and Random Forest. Evaluation is performed on three chest X-ray datasets with annotated cases of both positive and negative COVID-19 diagnoses. The accuracy of each technique proposed for the Siamese architecture is analyzed separately and their results are compared to those obtained using equivalent methods on a state-of-the-art CNN. We conclude that the introduced techniques offer promising improvements over the baseline in almost all cases, and that the selection of the technique may vary depending on the amount of data available and the level of imbalance.
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spellingShingle Few-shot learning for COVID-19 Chest X-Ray Classification with Imbalanced Data: An Inter vs. Intra Domain Study
Galán-Cuenca, Alejandro
Gallego, Antonio Javier
Saval-Calvo, Marcelo
Pertusa, Antonio
Image and Video Processing
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Medical image datasets are essential for training models used in computer-aided diagnosis, treatment planning, and medical research. However, some challenges are associated with these datasets, including variability in data distribution, data scarcity, and transfer learning issues when using models pre-trained from generic images. This work studies the effect of these challenges at the intra- and inter-domain level in few-shot learning scenarios with severe data imbalance. For this, we propose a methodology based on Siamese neural networks in which a series of techniques are integrated to mitigate the effects of data scarcity and distribution imbalance. Specifically, different initialization and data augmentation methods are analyzed, and four adaptations to Siamese networks of solutions to deal with imbalanced data are introduced, including data balancing and weighted loss, both separately and combined, and with a different balance of pairing ratios. Moreover, we also assess the inference process considering four classifiers, namely Histogram, $k$NN, SVM, and Random Forest. Evaluation is performed on three chest X-ray datasets with annotated cases of both positive and negative COVID-19 diagnoses. The accuracy of each technique proposed for the Siamese architecture is analyzed separately and their results are compared to those obtained using equivalent methods on a state-of-the-art CNN. We conclude that the introduced techniques offer promising improvements over the baseline in almost all cases, and that the selection of the technique may vary depending on the amount of data available and the level of imbalance.
title Few-shot learning for COVID-19 Chest X-Ray Classification with Imbalanced Data: An Inter vs. Intra Domain Study
topic Image and Video Processing
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.10129