Learning from the few: Fine-grained approach to pediatric wrist pathology recognition on a limited dataset

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Main Authors: Ahmed, Ammar, Imran, Ali Shariq, Kastrati, Zenun, Daudpota, Sher Muhammad, Ullah, Mohib, Noord, Waheed
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author Ahmed, Ammar
Imran, Ali Shariq
Kastrati, Zenun
Daudpota, Sher Muhammad
Ullah, Mohib
Noord, Waheed
author_facet Ahmed, Ammar
Imran, Ali Shariq
Kastrati, Zenun
Daudpota, Sher Muhammad
Ullah, Mohib
Noord, Waheed
contents Wrist pathologies, {particularly fractures common among children and adolescents}, present a critical diagnostic challenge. While X-ray imaging remains a prevalent diagnostic tool, the increasing misinterpretation rates highlight the need for more accurate analysis, especially considering the lack of specialized training among many surgeons and physicians. Recent advancements in deep convolutional neural networks offer promise in automating pathology detection in trauma X-rays. However, distinguishing subtle variations between {pediatric} wrist pathologies in X-rays remains challenging. Traditional manual annotation, though effective, is laborious, costly, and requires specialized expertise. {In this paper, we address the challenge of pediatric wrist pathology recognition with a fine-grained approach, aimed at automatically identifying discriminative regions in X-rays without manual intervention. We refine our fine-grained architecture through ablation analysis and the integration of LION.} Leveraging Grad-CAM, an explainable AI technique, we highlight these regions. Despite using limited data, reflective of real-world medical study constraints, our method consistently outperforms state-of-the-art image recognition models on both augmented and original (challenging) test sets. {Our proposed refined architecture achieves an increase in accuracy of 1.06% and 1.25% compared to the baseline method, resulting in accuracies of 86% and 84%, respectively. Moreover, our approach demonstrates the highest fracture sensitivity of 97%, highlighting its potential to enhance wrist pathology recognition. The implementation code can be found at https://github.com/ammarlodhi255/fine-grained-approach-to-wrist-pathology-recognition
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spellingShingle Learning from the few: Fine-grained approach to pediatric wrist pathology recognition on a limited dataset
Ahmed, Ammar
Imran, Ali Shariq
Kastrati, Zenun
Daudpota, Sher Muhammad
Ullah, Mohib
Noord, Waheed
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Wrist pathologies, {particularly fractures common among children and adolescents}, present a critical diagnostic challenge. While X-ray imaging remains a prevalent diagnostic tool, the increasing misinterpretation rates highlight the need for more accurate analysis, especially considering the lack of specialized training among many surgeons and physicians. Recent advancements in deep convolutional neural networks offer promise in automating pathology detection in trauma X-rays. However, distinguishing subtle variations between {pediatric} wrist pathologies in X-rays remains challenging. Traditional manual annotation, though effective, is laborious, costly, and requires specialized expertise. {In this paper, we address the challenge of pediatric wrist pathology recognition with a fine-grained approach, aimed at automatically identifying discriminative regions in X-rays without manual intervention. We refine our fine-grained architecture through ablation analysis and the integration of LION.} Leveraging Grad-CAM, an explainable AI technique, we highlight these regions. Despite using limited data, reflective of real-world medical study constraints, our method consistently outperforms state-of-the-art image recognition models on both augmented and original (challenging) test sets. {Our proposed refined architecture achieves an increase in accuracy of 1.06% and 1.25% compared to the baseline method, resulting in accuracies of 86% and 84%, respectively. Moreover, our approach demonstrates the highest fracture sensitivity of 97%, highlighting its potential to enhance wrist pathology recognition. The implementation code can be found at https://github.com/ammarlodhi255/fine-grained-approach-to-wrist-pathology-recognition
title Learning from the few: Fine-grained approach to pediatric wrist pathology recognition on a limited dataset
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.13542