Convolutional Neural Networks are revolutionizing the field of Medical Imaging analysis and Computer Aided Diagnostics. Medical images from X-Rays, CT, MRI, retinal scans to digitized biopsy slides are an integral part of a patient’s EHR. Current manual analysis and diagnosis by human radiologists, pathologists are prone to undue delays, erroneous diagnosis and can therefore benefit from deep learning based AI for quantitative, standardized computer aided diagnostic tools.

In this session, we will review the state of the art in medical imaging and diagnostics, important tasks like classification, localization, detection, segmentation and registration along with CNN architectures that enable these. Further, we will briefly cover data augmentation techniques, transfer learning and walkthrough two casestudies on Diabetic Retinopathy and Breast Cancer Diagnosis. Finally, we discuss inherent challenges from sourcing training data to model interpretability.