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New C2A model improves chest X-ray classification by coupling spatial and clinical data

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Researchers have developed a new classification head called C$^2$A (Co-occurrence Aware Class Attention) designed to improve the accuracy of multi-label classification for chest X-rays. This method explicitly links spatial information from the X-ray images with prior clinical knowledge about how different thoracic pathologies tend to co-occur. By learning per-class spatial attention maps and coupling these with empirical label co-occurrence data, C$^2$A can better identify and differentiate findings, particularly those with ambiguous spatial evidence. The approach demonstrated superior performance on the CheXpert dataset, achieving a macro-mean AUROC of 0.895 and showing significant gains for classes that frequently appear together. AI

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New C2A model improves chest X-ray classification by coupling spatial and clinical data

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  1. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Akash Gogineni, Nagur Shareef Shaik, Aasrith Mandava, Adnan Masood, Dong Hye Ye ·

    C$^2$A: Coupling Spatial Evidence with Clinical Priors via Co-occurrence Aware Class Attention for Multi-Label Chest X-Ray Classification

    arXiv:2608.09774v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Thoracic pathologies rarely occur in isolation, yet standard multi-label classifiers rely on shared global descriptors, discarding \emph{where} findings lie and \emph{how} they co-occur. We propose \textbf{C$\mathbf{^2}$A} (Co-occ…

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