Event date:
Mar 9 2021 2:00 pm

Lung disease diagnosis using X-Ray imagery

Supervisor
Dr. Murtaza Taj
Student
Shifa Imran
Venue
Zoom Meetings (Online)
Event
MS Synopsis defense
Abstract
Lung diseases have remained at the heart of health predicants for over decades. Be it normal flue infections like Influenza virus or severe conditions like Pneumonia or COVID-19 chest x-rays play a crucial role in the diagnosis and treatment of all such diseases. X-rays are long known most inexpensive and convenient method of getting a picture of lung tissues and analyzing the extent to which they are affected or locating as any abnormality in them. However, interpreting such x-rays require highly professional and capable radiologists who might not be available easily in many areas. Moreover, accessing this massive number of patients’ data is undoubtedly a tedious task for doctors, and providing any automated assistance would be appreciated by them as well. In this regard, with the rapid spread of recent COVID-19, a lot of work is being done in this domain. Many people have developed deep learning tools for detecting different diseases from chest x-rays, but little work is done for disease localization in chest x-rays. A typical radiologist approach is to detect patches where abnormality occurs in a chest x-ray and on the basis of these findings, they make their diagnosis of whether a person is suffering from Pneumonia or COVID-19, or any other lung disease. Similarly, we have acquired annotations of ten different diseases on the Gulab-Devi Hospital chest x-rays dataset and plan to develop a deep-learning-inspired solution for disease localization in chest x-rays.

Zoom Link: https://zoom.us/j/97696454919?pwd=WWpCeEJYektDcTc2Zm1tK29RSXFUZz09

Meeting ID: 976 9645 4919

Passcode: 238560