Biomedical concept detection in medical images: MQ-CSIRO at 2019 ImageCLEFmed caption task

Sonit Singh, Sarvnaz Karimi, Kevin Ho-Shon, Len Hamey

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Abstract

We describe our concept detection system submitted for the ImageCLEFmed Caption task, part of the ImageCLEF 2019 challenge. The advancements in imaging technologies has improved the ability of clinicians to detect, diagnose, and treat diseases. Radiologists routinely interpret medical images and summarise their findings in the form of radiology reports. The mapping of visual information present in medical images to the condensed textual description is a tedious, time-consuming, expensive, and error-prone task. The development of methods that can automatically detect the presence and location of medical concepts in medical images can improve the efficiency of radiologists, reduce the burden of manual interpretation, and also help in reducing diagnostic errors. We propose a Convolutional Neural Network based multi-label image classifier to predict relevant concepts present in medical images. The proposed method achieved an F1-score of 0.1435 on the held-out test set of the 2019 ImageCLEFmed Caption Task. We present our proposed system with data analysis, experimental results, comparison, and discussion.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCLEF 2019 Working Notes
Subtitle of host publicationWorking Notes of CLEF 2019 - Conferenceand Labs of the Evaluation Forum
EditorsLinda Cappellato, Nicola Ferro, David E. Losada, Henning Müller
Place of PublicationAachen, Germany
PublisherCEUR
Pages1-15
Number of pages15
Publication statusPublished - 9 Sept 2019
Event20th Working Notes of CLEF Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2019 - Lugano, Switzerland
Duration: 9 Sept 201912 Sept 2019

Publication series

NameCEUR Workshop Proceedings
Volume2380
ISSN (Electronic)1613-0073

Conference

Conference20th Working Notes of CLEF Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2019
Country/TerritorySwitzerland
CityLugano
Period9/09/1912/09/19

Bibliographical note

Copyright the Author(s) 2019. Version archived for private and non-commercial use with the permission of the author/s and according to publisher conditions. For further rights please contact the publisher.

Keywords

  • Caption Prediction
  • Computer Vision
  • Concept Detection
  • Convolutional Neural Network
  • Medical Imaging
  • Multi-label classification

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