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ArticleIEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics2021

Distant Domain Transfer Learning for Medical Imaging.

Shuteng Niu, Meryl Liu, Yongxin Liu, Jian Wang, Houbing Song

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Article in IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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Shuteng Niu
Meryl Liu
Yongxin Liu
Jian Wang
Houbing Song

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Abstract

Medical image processing is one of the most important topics in the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT). Recently, deep learning methods have carried out state-of-the-art performances on medical imaging tasks. In this paper, we propose a novel transfer learning framework for medical image classification. Moreover, we apply our method COVID-19 diagnosis with lung Computed Tomography (CT) images. However, well-labeled training data sets cannot be easily accessed due to the disease's novelty and privacy policies. The proposed method has two components: reduced-size Unet Segmentation model and Distant Feature Fusion (DFF) classification model. This study is related to a not well-investigated but important transfer learning problem, termed Distant Domain Transfer Learning (DDTL). In this study, we develop a DDTL model for COVID-19 diagnosis using unlabeled Office-31, Caltech-256, and chest X-ray image data sets as the source data, and a small set of labeled COVID-19 lung CT as the target data. The main contributions of this study are: 1) the proposed method benefits from unlabeled data in distant domains which can be easily accessed, 2) it can effectively handle the distribution shift between the training data and the testing data, 3) it has achieved 96% classification accuracy, which is 13% higher classification accuracy than "non-transfer" algorithms, and 8% higher than existing transfer and distant transfer algorithms.

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COVID-19Machine LearningHumansTomography, X-Ray Computed

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PMID33449887
PMCPMC8545174

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