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by PeterisP 3645 days ago
You don't need labels for the image if you can get them from other patient information, in particular, the diagnosis.

E.g. you know from image metadata that it's a chest x-ray of patient #1234 at 2012/03/04. Then you automatically check patient EHR near that date - do they have lung cancer Y/N; do they have broken ribs Y/N; do they have TB Y/N, etc, and make your image labels based on that. How diagnosis are codified, though, differs significantly between various medical systems, I have no idea how it's in USA EHR.