Deep learning models for COVID-19 chest x-ray classification: Preventing shortcut learning using feature disentanglement

• Anusua Trivedi ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Anusua Trivedi, Caleb Robinson

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations AI for Good Research Lab, Microsoft, Redmond, WA, United States of America, Flipkart US R&D, Seattle, WA, United States of America

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• Caleb Robinson ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Anusua Trivedi, Caleb Robinson

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation AI for Good Research Lab, Microsoft, Redmond, WA, United States of America

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• Marian Blazes,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States of America

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• Anthony Ortiz,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation AI for Good Research Lab, Microsoft, Redmond, WA, United States of America

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• Jocelyn Desbiens,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Intelligent Retinal Imaging Systems, Pensacola, FL, United States of America

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• Sunil Gupta,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Intelligent Retinal Imaging Systems, Pensacola, FL, United States of America

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• Rahul Dodhia,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation AI for Good Research Lab, Microsoft, Redmond, WA, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3812-3906

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• Pavan K. Bhatraju,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Medicine and Sepsis Center of Research Excellence, University of Washington (SCORE-UW), Seattle, WA, United States of America, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States of America

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• W. Conrad Liles,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medicine and Sepsis Center of Research Excellence, University of Washington (SCORE-UW), Seattle, WA, United States of America

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• Jayashree Kalpathy-Cramer,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Neuroscience, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, United States of America

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• Aaron Y. Lee ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: leeay@uw.edu (AYL); jlavista@microsoft.com (JMLF)

  Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7452-1648

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• Juan M. Lavista Ferres

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: leeay@uw.edu (AYL); jlavista@microsoft.com (JMLF)

  Affiliation AI for Good Research Lab, Microsoft, Redmond, WA, United States of America

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