Deep Learning Assisted Diagnosis of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Based on a Local-to-Global Framework

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Abstract

To aid the diagnosis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a local-to-global deep framework with group attentions and slice-aware loss is designed in this paper, which utilizes the chest CT sequences of the patients as the network input. To fully mine the medical hints submerged in the CT slices, two types of group attentions are designed to extract local–global features of the grouped slices. Specifically, in each group, a group local attention block (GLAB) and a group global attention block (GGAB) are designed to extract local features in the CT slices and long-range dependencies among the grouped slices. To alleviate the influence of different numbers of CT slices in the chest CT sequences for different patients, a slice-aware loss is proposed by incorporating a normalized coefficient into the cross-entropy loss. Experimental results indicate that the designed deep model performs a good COPD identification on a real COPD dataset with 96.08% accuracy, 94.12% sensitivity, 97.06% specificity, and 95.32% AUC, which is superior to some existing deep learning methods.

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