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Main Authors: Kalra, Mehar Prateek, Singhal, Mansi, Dhanakashirur, Rohan Raju
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.11464
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author Kalra, Mehar Prateek
Singhal, Mansi
Dhanakashirur, Rohan Raju
author_facet Kalra, Mehar Prateek
Singhal, Mansi
Dhanakashirur, Rohan Raju
contents Lung cancer is one of the significant causes of cancer-related deaths globally. Early detection and treatment improve the chances of survival. Traditionally CT scans have been used to extract the most significant lung infection information and diagnose cancer. This process is carried out manually by an expert radiologist. The imbalance in the radiologists-to-population ratio in a country like India implies significant work pressure on them and thus raises the need to automate a few of their responsibilities. The tendency of modern-day Deep Neural networks to make overconfident mistakes limit their usage to detect cancer. In this paper, we propose a new task-specific loss function to calibrate the neural network to reduce the risk of overconfident mistakes. We use the state-of-the-art Multi-class Difference in Confidence and Accuracy (MDCA) loss in conjunction with the proposed task-specific loss function to achieve the same. We also integrate post-hoc calibration by performing temperature scaling on top of the train-time calibrated model. We demonstrate 5.98% improvement in the Expected Calibration Error (ECE) and a 17.9% improvement in Maximum Calibration Error (MCE) as compared to the best-performing SOTA algorithm.
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spellingShingle Task-specific regularization loss towards model calibration for reliable lung cancer detection
Kalra, Mehar Prateek
Singhal, Mansi
Dhanakashirur, Rohan Raju
Image and Video Processing
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
Lung cancer is one of the significant causes of cancer-related deaths globally. Early detection and treatment improve the chances of survival. Traditionally CT scans have been used to extract the most significant lung infection information and diagnose cancer. This process is carried out manually by an expert radiologist. The imbalance in the radiologists-to-population ratio in a country like India implies significant work pressure on them and thus raises the need to automate a few of their responsibilities. The tendency of modern-day Deep Neural networks to make overconfident mistakes limit their usage to detect cancer. In this paper, we propose a new task-specific loss function to calibrate the neural network to reduce the risk of overconfident mistakes. We use the state-of-the-art Multi-class Difference in Confidence and Accuracy (MDCA) loss in conjunction with the proposed task-specific loss function to achieve the same. We also integrate post-hoc calibration by performing temperature scaling on top of the train-time calibrated model. We demonstrate 5.98% improvement in the Expected Calibration Error (ECE) and a 17.9% improvement in Maximum Calibration Error (MCE) as compared to the best-performing SOTA algorithm.
title Task-specific regularization loss towards model calibration for reliable lung cancer detection
topic Image and Video Processing
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.11464