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ArticleScientific reports2024

Pneumonia detection based on RSNA dataset and anchor-free deep learning detector.

Linghua Wu, Jing Zhang, Yilin Wang, Rong Ding, Yueqin Cao, Guiqin Liu, Changsheng Liufu, Baowei Xie, Shanping Kang, Rui Liu and 2 more

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Linghua WuInternal Medicine Department, Taizhou Fifth People's Hospital, Taizhou, China.
Jing ZhangRespiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Taizhou Fourth People's Hospital, Taizhou, China.
Yilin WangInternal Medicine Department, Taizhou Fifth People's Hospital, Taizhou, China.
Rong DingRespiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Taizhou Fourth People's Hospital, Taizhou, China.
Yueqin CaoRespiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Taizhou Fourth People's Hospital, Taizhou, China.
Guiqin LiuRespiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Taizhou Fourth People's Hospital, Taizhou, China.
Changsheng LiufuDepartment of Gerontology, Dongguan First Hospital Affiliated to Guangdong Medical University, Dongguan, China.
Baowei XieRespiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Taizhou Fourth People's Hospital, Taizhou, China.
Shanping KangDepartment of Gerontolog, Ruikang Hospital Affiliated to Guangxi University of Chinese Medicine, Nanning, China.
Rui LiuRespiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Ruikang Hospital Affiliated to Guangxi University of Chinese Medicine, Nanning, China.
Wenle LiState Key Laboratory of Molecular Vaccinology and Molecular Diagnostics and Center for Molecular Imaging and Translational Medicine, School of Public Health, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China. Drlee0910@163.com.
Furen GuanEmergency Department, Zhuhai Hospital of Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine, Zhuhai, China. 1078389699@qq.com.

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Abstract

Pneumonia is a highly lethal disease, and research on its treatment and early screening tools has received extensive attention from researchers. Due to the maturity and cost reduction of chest X-ray technology, and with the development of artificial intelligence technology, pneumonia identification based on deep learning and chest X-ray has attracted attention from all over the world. Although the feature extraction capability of deep learning is strong, existing deep learning object detection frameworks are based on pre-defined anchors, which require a lot of tuning and experience to guarantee their excellent results in the face of new applications or data. To avoid the influence of anchor settings in pneumonia detection, this paper proposes an anchor-free object detection framework and RSNA dataset based on pneumonia detection. First, a data enhancement scheme is used to preprocess the chest X-ray images; second, an anchor-free object detection framework is used for pneumonia detection, which contains a feature pyramid, two-branch detection head, and focal loss. The average precision of 51.5 obtained by Intersection over Union (IoU) calculation shows that the pneumonia detection results obtained in this paper can surpass the existing classical object detection framework, providing an idea for future research and exploration.

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Deep LearningPneumoniaArtificial IntelligenceHumansPyramidal TractsResearch Personnel

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PMCPMC10803753

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