Automatic Disease Detection and Report Generation for Gastrointestinal Tract Examination
Philipp Harzig, Moritz Einfalt, Rainer W. Lienhart · 2019
In this paper, we present a method to automatically identify diseases from videos of gastrointestinal (GI) tract examinations using a Deep Convolutional Neural Network (DCNN) that processes images from digital endoscopes. Our goal is to aid domain experts by automatically detecting abnormalities and generating a report that summarizes the main findings. We have implemented a model that uses two different DCNN architectures to generate our predictions, which are also capable of running on a mobile device. Using this architecture, we are able to predict findings on individual images. Combined with class activations maps (CAM), we can also automatically generate a textual report describing a video in detail while giving hints about the spatial location of findings and anatomical landmarks. Our work shows one way to use a multi-disease detection pipeline to also generate video reports that summarize key findings.