POTHER: Patch-Voted Deep Learning-based Chest X-ray Bias Analysis for COVID-19 Detection

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2201.09360v1
• Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2022 20:35:45 GMT
• Title: POTHER: Patch-Voted Deep Learning-based Chest X-ray Bias Analysis for COVID-19 Detection
• Authors: Tomasz Szczepa\'nski, Arkadiusz Sitek, Tomasz Trzci\'nski, Szymon P{\l}otka
• Abstract summary: Many studies reported detecting COVID-19 in chest X-rays accurately using deep learning. We demonstrate that model decisions may rely on confounding factors rather than medical pathology. We propose a novel method to minimise their negative impact.
• Score: 10.516962652888989
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: A critical step in the fight against COVID-19, which continues to have a catastrophic impact on peoples lives, is the effective screening of patients presented in the clinics with severe COVID-19 symptoms. Chest radiography is one of the promising screening approaches. Many studies reported detecting COVID-19 in chest X-rays accurately using deep learning. A serious limitation of many published approaches is insufficient attention paid to explaining decisions made by deep learning models. Using explainable artificial intelligence methods, we demonstrate that model decisions may rely on confounding factors rather than medical pathology. After an analysis of potential confounding factors found on chest X-ray images, we propose a novel method to minimise their negative impact. We show that our proposed method is more robust than previous attempts to counter confounding factors such as ECG leads in chest X-rays that often influence model classification decisions. In addition to being robust, our method achieves results comparable to the state-of-the-art. The source code and pre-trained weights are publicly available (https://github.com/tomek1911/POTHER).

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