DeepCOVIDExplainer: Explainable COVID-19 Diagnosis from Chest X-ray Images: Explainable COVID-19 Diagnosis from Chest X-ray Images

  • Md. Rezaul Karim
  • , Till Döhmen
  • , Michael Cochez
  • , Oya Beyan
  • , Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann
  • , Stefan Decker

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Abstract

In this paper1, we proposed an explainable deep neural networks (DNN)-based method for automatic detection of COVID-19 symptoms from chest radiography (CXR) images, which we call 'DeepCOVIDExplainer'. We used 15,959 CXR images of 15,854 patients, covering normal, pneumonia, and COVID-19 cases. CXR images are first comprehensively preprocessed and augmented before classifying with a neural ensemble method, followed by highlighting class-discriminating regions using gradient-guided class activation maps (Grad-CAM ++) and layer-wise relevance propagation (LRP). Further, we provide human-interpretable explanations for the diagnosis. Evaluation results show that our approach can identify COVID-19 cases with a positive predictive value (PPV) of 91.6%, 92.45%, and 96.12%, respectively for normal, pneumonia, and COVID-19 cases, respectively, outperforming recent approaches.1Read longer version of this paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2004.04582.pdf

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2020 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM)
EditorsTaesung Park, Young-Rae Cho, Xiaohua Tony Hu, Illhoi Yoo, Hyun Goo Woo, Jianxin Wang, Julio Facelli, Seungyoon Nam, Mingon Kang
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages1034-1037
Number of pages4
ISBN (Electronic)9781728162157
DOIs
StatePublished - 2020
Externally publishedYes
Event2020 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, BIBM 2020 - Virtual, Seoul, Korea, Republic of
Duration: Dec 16 2020Dec 19 2020

Publication series

NameProceedings - 2020 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, BIBM 2020

Conference

Conference2020 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, BIBM 2020
Country/TerritoryKorea, Republic of
CityVirtual, Seoul
Period12/16/2012/19/20

Keywords

  • Biomedical imaging
  • COVID-19
  • Deep learning
  • Explainability
  • Grad-CAM
  • Layer-wise relevance propagation

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