SignsToTB model optimization

Note

The SignsToTB model contains 161 parameters.

SignsToTB is a shallow model created to predict TB presence based on the fourteen radiological signs predicted by the DensenetRS model. To train this model, we created new features for the Montgomery, Shenzhen and Indian dataset by predicting the presence of radiological signs on each of them with DensenetRS. Those new datasets versions can be identified by the _RS (for Radiological Signs) in their name.

To select the optimal learning rate and the optimal number of neurons for the SignsToTB model, we did a grid search with the following parameters.

  • 2, 5, 10 and 14 neurons

  • learning rate of 1e-2, 1e-3, 1e-4 and 1e-5

  • batch size of 4

  • 1’000 epochs

We systematically used the training set of the combined dataset MC-CH-IN for this optimization.

The minimum validation loss we found is 0.307 by using a learning rate of 1e-2 and 10 neurons.