CheXpert: A Large Chest Radiograph Dataset with Uncertainty Labels and Expert Comparison

Authors

  • Jeremy Irvin Stanford University
  • Pranav Rajpurkar Stanford University
  • Michael Ko Stanford University
  • Yifan Yu Stanford University
  • Silviana Ciurea-Ilcus Stanford University
  • Chris Chute Stanford University
  • Henrik Marklund Stanford University
  • Behzad Haghgoo Stanford University
  • Robyn Ball Stanford University
  • Katie Shpanskaya Stanford University
  • Jayne Seekins Stanford University
  • David A. Mong University of Colorado
  • Safwan S. Halabi Stanford University
  • Jesse K. Sandberg Stanford University
  • Ricky Jones Stanford University
  • David B. Larson Stanford University
  • Curtis P. Langlotz Stanford University
  • Bhavik N. Patel Stanford University
  • Matthew P. Lungren Stanford University
  • Andrew Y. Ng Stanford University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v33i01.3301590

Abstract

Large, labeled datasets have driven deep learning methods to achieve expert-level performance on a variety of medical imaging tasks. We present CheXpert, a large dataset that contains 224,316 chest radiographs of 65,240 patients. We design a labeler to automatically detect the presence of 14 observations in radiology reports, capturing uncertainties inherent in radiograph interpretation. We investigate different approaches to using the uncertainty labels for training convolutional neural networks that output the probability of these observations given the available frontal and lateral radiographs. On a validation set of 200 chest radiographic studies which were manually annotated by 3 board-certified radiologists, we find that different uncertainty approaches are useful for different pathologies. We then evaluate our best model on a test set composed of 500 chest radiographic studies annotated by a consensus of 5 board-certified radiologists, and compare the performance of our model to that of 3 additional radiologists in the detection of 5 selected pathologies. On Cardiomegaly, Edema, and Pleural Effusion, the model ROC and PR curves lie above all 3 radiologist operating points. We release the dataset to the public as a standard benchmark to evaluate performance of chest radiograph interpretation models.

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Published

2019-07-17

How to Cite

Irvin, J., Rajpurkar, P., Ko, M., Yu, Y., Ciurea-Ilcus, S., Chute, C., Marklund, H., Haghgoo, B., Ball, R., Shpanskaya, K., Seekins, J., Mong, D. A., Halabi, S. S., Sandberg, J. K., Jones, R., Larson, D. B., Langlotz, C. P., Patel, B. N., Lungren, M. P., & Ng, A. Y. (2019). CheXpert: A Large Chest Radiograph Dataset with Uncertainty Labels and Expert Comparison. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 33(01), 590-597. https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v33i01.3301590

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AAAI Special Technical Track: AI for Social Impact