Quantitative evaluation of activation maps for weakly-supervised lung nodule segmentation

Finn Behrendt; Suyash Sonawane; Debayan Bhattacharya; Lennart Maack; Julia Krüger; Roland Opfer; Alexander Schlaefer

doi:10.1117/12.3006416

3 April 2024 Quantitative evaluation of activation maps for weakly-supervised lung nodule segmentation

Finn Behrendt, Suyash Sonawane, Debayan Bhattacharya, Lennart Maack, Julia Krüger, Roland Opfer, Alexander Schlaefer

Proceedings Volume 12927, Medical Imaging 2024: Computer-Aided Diagnosis; 129272P (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3006416
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2024, San Diego, California, United States

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Abstract

The manual assessment of chest radiographs by radiologists is a time-consuming and error-prone process that relies on the availability of trained professionals. Deep learning methods have the potential to alleviate the workload of radiologists in pathology detection and diagnosis. However, one major drawback of deep learning methods is their lack of explainable decision-making, which is crucial in computer-aided diagnosis. To address this issue, activation maps of the underlying convolutional neural networks (CNN) are frequently used to indicate the regions of focus for the network during predictions. However, often, an evaluation of these activation maps concerning the actual predicted pathology is missing. In this study, we quantitatively evaluate the usage of activation maps for segmenting pulmonary nodules in chest radiographs. We compare transformer-based, CNN-based, and hybrid architectures using different visualization methods. Our results show that although high performance can be achieved in the classification task across all models, the activation masks show little correlation with the actual position of the nodules.

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Finn Behrendt, Suyash Sonawane, Debayan Bhattacharya, Lennart Maack, Julia Krüger, Roland Opfer, and Alexander Schlaefer "Quantitative evaluation of activation maps for weakly-supervised lung nodule segmentation", Proc. SPIE 12927, Medical Imaging 2024: Computer-Aided Diagnosis, 129272P (3 April 2024); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3006416

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