  Accurate identification and localization of abnormalities from radiology
images play an integral part in clinical diagnosis and treatment planning.
Building a highly accurate prediction model for these tasks usually requires a
large number of images manually annotated with labels and finding sites of
abnormalities. In reality, however, such annotated data are expensive to
acquire, especially the ones with location annotations. We need methods that
can work well with only a small amount of location annotations. To address this
challenge, we present a unified approach that simultaneously performs disease
identification and localization through the same underlying model for all
images. We demonstrate that our approach can effectively leverage both class
information as well as limited location annotation, and significantly
outperforms the comparative reference baseline in both classification and
localization tasks.

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition;Machine Learning