Towards long-tailed, multi-label disease classification from chest X-ray: Overview of the CXR-LT challenge.

TitleTowards long-tailed, multi-label disease classification from chest X-ray: Overview of the CXR-LT challenge.
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2024
AuthorsHolste G, Zhou Y, Wang S, Jaiswal A, Lin M, Zhuge S, Yang Y, Kim D, Nguyen-Mau T-H, Tran M-T, Jeong J, Park W, Ryu J, Hong F, Verma A, Yamagishi Y, Kim C, Seo H, Kang M, Celi LAnthony, Lu Z, Summers RM, Shih G, Wang Z, Peng Y
JournalMed Image Anal
Volume97
Pagination103224
Date Published2024 May 31
ISSN1361-8423
Abstract

Many real-world image recognition problems, such as diagnostic medical imaging exams, are "long-tailed" - there are a few common findings followed by many more relatively rare conditions. In chest radiography, diagnosis is both a long-tailed and multi-label problem, as patients often present with multiple findings simultaneously. While researchers have begun to study the problem of long-tailed learning in medical image recognition, few have studied the interaction of label imbalance and label co-occurrence posed by long-tailed, multi-label disease classification. To engage with the research community on this emerging topic, we conducted an open challenge, CXR-LT, on long-tailed, multi-label thorax disease classification from chest X-rays (CXRs). We publicly release a large-scale benchmark dataset of over 350,000 CXRs, each labeled with at least one of 26 clinical findings following a long-tailed distribution. We synthesize common themes of top-performing solutions, providing practical recommendations for long-tailed, multi-label medical image classification. Finally, we use these insights to propose a path forward involving vision-language foundation models for few- and zero-shot disease classification.

DOI10.1016/j.media.2024.103224
Alternate JournalMed Image Anal
PubMed ID38850624
Grant ListR21 EY035296 / EY / NEI NIH HHS / United States