Improving Imbalanced Multi-Label Chest X-Ray Diagnosis via CBAM-Enhanced CNN Backbones

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Main Authors: Huu, Duy Nguyen, Khuong, Duy Hoang, Viet, Ngu Huynh Cong
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author Huu, Duy Nguyen
Khuong, Duy Hoang
Viet, Ngu Huynh Cong
author_facet Huu, Duy Nguyen
Khuong, Duy Hoang
Viet, Ngu Huynh Cong
contents Chest radiography is a widely used imaging modality for thoracic disease diagnosis, yet its conventional interpretation remains time-consuming and heavily dependent on expert knowledge. While deep learning has improved diagnostic efficiency through automated feature extraction, challenges such as class imbalance and the localization of multiple co-existing pathologies remain unsolved. In this paper, inspired by the strength of Convolutional Block Attention Module (CBAM) in feature refinement and the capability of CNN blocks in feature extraction, we propose a strategy to integrate CBAM into traditional CNN blocks to enhance performance in multi-label classification tasks. Our method achieves a mean AUC of 0.8695 on ChestXray14 dataset, outperforming several state-of-the-art baselines.Our source code is available at: https://github.com/NNNguyenDuyyy/FETC_CBAM_Enhanced_CNN.git
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spellingShingle Improving Imbalanced Multi-Label Chest X-Ray Diagnosis via CBAM-Enhanced CNN Backbones
Huu, Duy Nguyen
Khuong, Duy Hoang
Viet, Ngu Huynh Cong
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Chest radiography is a widely used imaging modality for thoracic disease diagnosis, yet its conventional interpretation remains time-consuming and heavily dependent on expert knowledge. While deep learning has improved diagnostic efficiency through automated feature extraction, challenges such as class imbalance and the localization of multiple co-existing pathologies remain unsolved. In this paper, inspired by the strength of Convolutional Block Attention Module (CBAM) in feature refinement and the capability of CNN blocks in feature extraction, we propose a strategy to integrate CBAM into traditional CNN blocks to enhance performance in multi-label classification tasks. Our method achieves a mean AUC of 0.8695 on ChestXray14 dataset, outperforming several state-of-the-art baselines.Our source code is available at: https://github.com/NNNguyenDuyyy/FETC_CBAM_Enhanced_CNN.git
title Improving Imbalanced Multi-Label Chest X-Ray Diagnosis via CBAM-Enhanced CNN Backbones
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.02328