Learning to Read Chest X-Ray Images from 16000+ Examples Using CNN

Chest radiography (chest X-ray) is a low-cost yet effective and widely used medical imaging procedures. The lacking of qualified radiologist seriously limits the applicability of the technique. We explore the possibility of designing a computer-aided diagnosis for chest X-rays using deep convolutional neural networks. Using a real-world dataset of 16,000 chest X-rays with natural language diagnosis reports, we can train a multi-class classification model from images and preform accurate diagnosis, without any prior domain knowledge.