Explainable deep-neural-network supported scheme for tuberculosis detection from chest radiographs

Chest radiographs are examined in typical clinical settings by competent physicians for tuberculosis diagnosis. However, this procedure is time consuming and subjective. Due to the growing usage of machine learning techniques in applied sciences, researchers have begun applying comparable concepts to medical diagnostics, such as tuberculosis screening. In the period of extremely deep neural nets which comprised of hundreds of convolution layers for feature extraction, we create a shallow-CNN for screening of TB condition from Chest X-rays so that the model is able to offer appropriate interpretation for right diagnosis. The suggested model consists of four convolution-maxpooling layers with various hyperparameters that were optimized for optimal performance using a Bayesian optimization technique. The model was reported with a peak classification accuracy, F1-score, sensitivity and specificity of 0.95. In addition, the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve for the proposed shallow-CNN showed a peak area under the curve value of 0.976. Moreover, we have employed class activation maps (CAM) and Local Interpretable Model-agnostic Explanations (LIME), explainer systems for assessing the transparency and explainability of the model in comparison to a state-of-the-art pre-trained neural net such as the DenseNet.