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ArticleJournal of imaging informatics in medicine2026

Domain Shift Analysis in Chest Radiographs Classification in a Veterans Healthcare Administration Population.

Mayanka Chandrashekar, Ian Goethert, Md Inzamam Ul Haque, Benjamin McMahon, Sayera Dhaubhadel, Kathryn Knight, Joseph Erdos, Donna Reagan, Caroline Taylor, Peter Kuzmak and 11 more

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21 authors.

Mayanka ChandrashekarAdvanced Computing for Health Sciences, Computational Sciences and Engineering Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA. chandrashekm@ornl.gov.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3697-5972
Ian GoethertIT Services Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA.
Md Inzamam Ul HaqueThermo-Fisher Scientific, Waltham, MA, USA.
Benjamin McMahonTheoretical Biology Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, USA.
Sayera DhaubhadelTheoretical Biology Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, USA.
Kathryn KnightIT Services Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA.
Joseph ErdosDepartment of Veterans Affairs, West Haven, CT, USA.
Donna ReaganDepartment of Veterans Affairs, West Haven, CT, USA.
Caroline TaylorDepartment of Veterans Affairs, West Haven, CT, USA.
Peter KuzmakDepartment of Veterans Affairs, West Haven, CT, USA.
John Michael GazianoDivision of Aging, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
Eileen McAllisterIT Services Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA.
Lauren CostaMillion Veteran Program Boston Coordinating Center, VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA, USA.
Yuk-Lam HoMillion Veteran Program Boston Coordinating Center, VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA, USA.
Kelly ChoDepartment of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Suzanne TamangDivision of Immunology and Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
Samah Fodeh-JaradDepartment of Veterans Affairs, West Haven, CT, USA.
Olga S OvchinnikovaThermo-Fisher Scientific, Waltham, MA, USA.
Amy C JusticeDepartment of Veterans Affairs, West Haven, CT, USA.
Jacob HinkleNVIDIA corporation, Santa Clara, CA, USA.
Ioana DanciuAdvanced Computing for Health Sciences, Computational Sciences and Engineering Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA.

Funding

Stanford Medicine Center for Longevity and Healthy Aging Research Education CoreP30AG059307 · NIA · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI PERIYAKOIL, VYJEYANTHI S, YESAVAGE, JEROME A · 2018 to 2025
$4.9M
NIA NIH HHS P30 AG059307
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This study aims to assess the impact of domain shift on chest X-ray classification accuracy and to analyze the influence of ground truth label quality and demographic factors such as age group, sex, and study year. We used a DenseNet121 model pre-trained MIMIC-CXR dataset for deep learning-based multi-label classification using ground truth labels from radiology reports extracted using the CheXpert and CheXbert Labeler. We compared the performance of the 14 chest X-ray labels on the MIMIC-CXR and Veterans Healthcare Administration chest X-ray dataset (VA-CXR). The validation of ground truth and the assessment of multi-label classification performance across various NLP extraction tools revealed that the VA-CXR dataset exhibited lower disagreement rates than the MIMIC-CXR datasets. Additionally, there were notable differences in AUC scores between models utilizing CheXpert and CheXbert. When evaluating multi-label classification performance across different datasets, minimal domain shift was observed in the unseen VA dataset, except for the label "Enlarged Cardiomediastinum." The subgroup with the most significant variations in multi-label classification performance was study year. These findings underscore the importance of considering domain shift in chest X-ray classification tasks, paying particular attention to the temporality of the exam. Our study reveals the significant impact of domain shift and demographic factors on chest X-ray classification, emphasizing the need for improved transfer learning and robust model development. Addressing these challenges is crucial for advancing medical imaging research and improving patient care.

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Radiography, ThoracicAdultAgedDeep LearningFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedUnited StatesUnited States Department of Veterans AffairsVeteransChest X-ray image classificationDomain shiftMulti-label classification

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PMID40216674
PMCPMC12921069

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