Nature Communications (Jul 2021)

Advancing diagnostic performance and clinical usability of neural networks via adversarial training and dual batch normalization

  • Tianyu Han,
  • Sven Nebelung,
  • Federico Pedersoli,
  • Markus Zimmermann,
  • Maximilian Schulze-Hagen,
  • Michael Ho,
  • Christoph Haarburger,
  • Fabian Kiessling,
  • Christiane Kuhl,
  • Volkmar Schulz,
  • Daniel Truhn

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24464-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Unmasking the decision making process of machine learning models is essential for implementing diagnostic support systems in clinical practice. Here, the authors demonstrate that adversarially trained models can significantly enhance the usability of pathology detection as compared to their standard counterparts.