ArXiv Preprint
Advances in data-driven deep learning for chest X-ray image analysis
underscore the need for explainability, privacy, large datasets and significant
computational resources. We frame privacy and explainability as a lossy
single-image compression problem to reduce both computational and data
requirements without training. For Cardiomegaly detection in chest X-ray
images, we propose HeartSpot and four spatial bias priors. HeartSpot priors
define how to sample pixels based on domain knowledge from medical literature
and from machines. HeartSpot privatizes chest X-ray images by discarding up to
97% of pixels, such as those that reveal the shape of the thoracic cage, bones,
small lesions and other sensitive features. HeartSpot priors are ante-hoc
explainable and give a human-interpretable image of the preserved spatial
features that clearly outlines the heart. HeartSpot offers strong compression,
with up to 32x fewer pixels and 11x smaller filesize. Cardiomegaly detectors
using HeartSpot are up to 9x faster to train or at least as accurate (up to
+.01 AUC ROC) when compared to a baseline DenseNet121. HeartSpot is post-hoc
explainable by re-using existing attribution methods without requiring access
to the original non-privatized image. In summary, HeartSpot improves speed and
accuracy, reduces image size, improves privacy and ensures explainability.
Source code: https://www.github.com/adgaudio/HeartSpot
Elvin Johnson, Shreshta Mohan, Alex Gaudio, Asim Smailagic, Christos Faloutsos, Aurélio Campilho
2022-10-05
