Musculoskeletal Abnormality Detection in Medical Imaging Using GnCNNr (Group Normalized Convolutional Neural Networks with Regularization)

Musculoskeletal abnormality detection serves as an advantage to the professionals in the medical domain and also serves as an assistance in the diagnosis as well as the treatment of the abnormalities. This paper mainly focuses on accurately detecting musculoskeletal abnormalities using various deep learning models and techniques. MURA dataset has been used for experimentation. MURA dataset has 14,863 images of finger, wrist, elbow, shoulder, forearm and hand which has been analyzed using deep learning models. In this research paper, authors have proposed GnCNNr model which utilizes group normalization, weight standardization and cyclic learning rate scheduler to enhance the accuracy, precision and other model interpretation metrics. The musculoskeletal abnormality has been detected by using various deep learning models. Accuracy and Cohen Kappa have been taken as the evaluation criteria. The highest accuracy of 85% and Cohen Kappa statistic of 0.698 was achieved by the GnCNNr model in comparison with the conventional deep learning methods like DenseNet, Inception, Inception v2 model. © 2020, Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.