Improved swin transformer-based thorax disease classification with optimal feature selection using chest X-ray.

Thoracic diseases, including pneumonia, tuberculosis, lung cancer, and others, pose significant health risks and require timely and accurate diagnosis to ensure proper treatment. Thus, in this research, a model for thorax disease classification using Chest X-rays is proposed by considering deep lear...

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Main Authors: Nadim Rana, Yahaya Coulibaly, Ayman Noor, Talal H Noor, Md Imran Alam, Zeba Khan, Ali Tahir, Mohammad Zubair Khan
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Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2025-01-01
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0327099
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author Nadim Rana
Yahaya Coulibaly
Ayman Noor
Talal H Noor
Md Imran Alam
Zeba Khan
Ali Tahir
Mohammad Zubair Khan
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Ayman Noor
Talal H Noor
Md Imran Alam
Zeba Khan
Ali Tahir
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description Thoracic diseases, including pneumonia, tuberculosis, lung cancer, and others, pose significant health risks and require timely and accurate diagnosis to ensure proper treatment. Thus, in this research, a model for thorax disease classification using Chest X-rays is proposed by considering deep learning model. The input is pre-processed by resizing, normalizing pixel values, and applying data augmentation to address the issue of imbalanced datasets and improve model generalization. Significant features are extracted from the images using an Enhanced Auto-Encoder (EnAE) model, which combines a stacked auto-encoder architecture with an attention module to enhance feature representation and classification accuracy. To further improve feature selection, we utilize the Chaotic Whale Optimization (ChWO) Algorithm, which optimally selects the most relevant attributes from the extracted features. Finally, the disease classification is performed using the novel Improved Swin Transformer (IMSTrans) model, which is designed to efficiently process high-dimensional medical image data and achieve superior classification performance. The proposed EnAE + ChWO+IMSTrans model for thorax disease classification was evaluated using extensive Chest X-ray datasets and the Lung Disease Dataset. The proposed method demonstrates enhanced Accuracy, Precision, Recall, F-Score, MCC and MAE of 0.964, 0.977, 0.9845, 0.964, 0.9647, and 0.184 respectively indicating the reliable and efficient solution for thorax disease classification.
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spelling doaj-art-2fd520ec3e9c44ec9d2377376373a1422025-08-20T03:29:53ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032025-01-01206e032709910.1371/journal.pone.0327099Improved swin transformer-based thorax disease classification with optimal feature selection using chest X-ray.Nadim RanaYahaya CoulibalyAyman NoorTalal H NoorMd Imran AlamZeba KhanAli TahirMohammad Zubair KhanThoracic diseases, including pneumonia, tuberculosis, lung cancer, and others, pose significant health risks and require timely and accurate diagnosis to ensure proper treatment. Thus, in this research, a model for thorax disease classification using Chest X-rays is proposed by considering deep learning model. The input is pre-processed by resizing, normalizing pixel values, and applying data augmentation to address the issue of imbalanced datasets and improve model generalization. Significant features are extracted from the images using an Enhanced Auto-Encoder (EnAE) model, which combines a stacked auto-encoder architecture with an attention module to enhance feature representation and classification accuracy. To further improve feature selection, we utilize the Chaotic Whale Optimization (ChWO) Algorithm, which optimally selects the most relevant attributes from the extracted features. Finally, the disease classification is performed using the novel Improved Swin Transformer (IMSTrans) model, which is designed to efficiently process high-dimensional medical image data and achieve superior classification performance. The proposed EnAE + ChWO+IMSTrans model for thorax disease classification was evaluated using extensive Chest X-ray datasets and the Lung Disease Dataset. The proposed method demonstrates enhanced Accuracy, Precision, Recall, F-Score, MCC and MAE of 0.964, 0.977, 0.9845, 0.964, 0.9647, and 0.184 respectively indicating the reliable and efficient solution for thorax disease classification.https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0327099
spellingShingle Nadim Rana
Yahaya Coulibaly
Ayman Noor
Talal H Noor
Md Imran Alam
Zeba Khan
Ali Tahir
Mohammad Zubair Khan
Improved swin transformer-based thorax disease classification with optimal feature selection using chest X-ray.
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title Improved swin transformer-based thorax disease classification with optimal feature selection using chest X-ray.
title_full Improved swin transformer-based thorax disease classification with optimal feature selection using chest X-ray.
title_fullStr Improved swin transformer-based thorax disease classification with optimal feature selection using chest X-ray.
title_full_unstemmed Improved swin transformer-based thorax disease classification with optimal feature selection using chest X-ray.
title_short Improved swin transformer-based thorax disease classification with optimal feature selection using chest X-ray.
title_sort improved swin transformer based thorax disease classification with optimal feature selection using chest x ray
url https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0327099
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