Fine-tuning of Pre-trained DCNN for Gastritis Detection from Gastric X-ray Images

This paper presents a detection method of gastritis from gastric X-ray images using fine-tuning techniques. With the development of deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs), DCNN-based methods have achieved more accurate performance than conventional machine learning methods using hand-crafted features in the field of medical image analysis. However, lack of training images often occurs in clinical situations even though DCNNs require a large amount of training images to avoid overfitting. Therefore, the proposed method aims to consider the clinical situations that a limited amount of the training images are available. By fine-tuning a DCNN pre-trained with a large amount of annotated natural images, we avoid overfitting and realize accurate detection of the gastritis with a small amount of the training images.