SEMI-SUPERVISED LEARNING USING CO-TRAINING OF RADIOLOGY REPORT AND MEDICAL IMAGES

A method (100) of training a machine-learned (ML) image classifier (14) to classify images (30) respective to a set of labels includes: generating image-based labels for the images from the set of labels and image-based label confidence values for the image-based labels by applying the ML image classifier to the images; generating report-based labels for the images from the set of labels and report-based label confidence values for the report-based labels by applying a report classifier (16) to corresponding radiology reports; selecting a training subset of the set of images based on the image-based labels, the report-based labels, the image-based label confidence values, and the report-based label confidence values; assigning a pseudo-label for each image of the training subset which is one of the image-based label or the report-based label for the image; and training the ML image classifier using at least the selected training subset and the assigned pseudo-labels.