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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2022

Reliable Sarcoidosis Detection Using Chest X-rays with EfficientNets and Stain-Normalization Techniques.

Nadiah Baghdadi, Ahmed S Maklad, Amer Malki, Mohanad A Deif

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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Nadiah BaghdadiNursing Management and Education Department, College of Nursing, Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University, P.O. Box 84428, Riyadh 11671, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0003-3264-0179
Ahmed S MakladComputer Science Department, College of Computer Science and Engineering in Yanbu, Taibah University, Medina 42353, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0003-2201-7084
Amer MalkiComputer Science Department, College of Computer Science and Engineering in Yanbu, Taibah University, Medina 42353, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0003-3894-3293
Mohanad A DeifDepartment of Bioelectronics, Modern University of Technology and Information (MTI University), Cairo 12055, Egypt.ORCID 0000-0002-4388-1480

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Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University PNURSP2022R293
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Sarcoidosis is frequently misdiagnosed as tuberculosis (TB) and consequently mistreated due to inherent limitations in radiological presentations. Clinically, to distinguish sarcoidosis from TB, physicians usually employ biopsy tissue diagnosis and blood tests; this approach is painful for patients, time-consuming, expensive, and relies on techniques prone to human error. This study proposes a computer-aided diagnosis method to address these issues. This method examines seven EfficientNet designs that were fine-tuned and compared for their abilities to categorize X-ray images into three categories: normal, TB-infected, and sarcoidosis-infected. Furthermore, the effects of stain normalization on performance were investigated using Reinhard's and Macenko's conventional stain normalization procedures. This procedure aids in improving diagnostic efficiency and accuracy while cutting diagnostic costs. A database of 231 sarcoidosis-infected, 563 TB-infected, and 1010 normal chest X-ray images was created using public databases and information from several national hospitals. The EfficientNet-B4 model attained accuracy, sensitivity, and precision rates of 98.56%, 98.36%, and 98.67%, respectively, when the training X-ray images were normalized by the Reinhard stain approach, and 97.21%, 96.9%, and 97.11%, respectively, when normalized by Macenko's approach. Results demonstrate that Reinhard stain normalization can improve the performance of EfficientNet -B4 X-ray image classification. The proposed framework for identifying pulmonary sarcoidosis may prove valuable in clinical use.

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SarcoidosisTuberculosisTuberculosis, PulmonaryHumansRadiographyStaining and LabelingX-Rayschest X-raysEfficientNetspulmonary sarcoidosissarcoidosis detectionstain normalizationtuberculosis

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PMCPMC9144943

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