Massimiliano Datres, Elisa Paolazzi, Marco Chierici, Matteo Pozzi, Antonio Colangelo, Marcello Dorian Donzella, Giuseppe Jurman
BACKGROUND: Discrimination between patients affected by inflammatory bowel diseases and healthy controls on the basis of endoscopic imaging is an challenging problem for machine learning models. Such task is used here as the testbed for a novel deep learning classification pipeline, powered by a set of solutions enhancing characterising elements such as reproducibility, interpretability, reduced computational workload, bias-free modeling and careful image preprocessing. RESULTS: First, an automatic preprocessing procedure is devised, aimed to remove artifacts from clinical data, feeding then the resulting images to an aggregated per-patient model to mimic the clinicians decision process...
November 25, 2023: BioData Mining