scholarly journals COVID-19 Recognition Using Ensemble-CNNs in Two New Chest X-ray Databases

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (5) ◽  
pp. 1742
Author(s):  
Edoardo Vantaggiato ◽  
Emanuela Paladini ◽  
Fares Bougourzi ◽  
Cosimo Distante ◽  
Abdenour Hadid ◽  
...  

The recognition of COVID-19 infection from X-ray images is an emerging field in the learning and computer vision community. Despite the great efforts that have been made in this field since the appearance of COVID-19 (2019), the field still suffers from two drawbacks. First, the number of available X-ray scans labeled as COVID-19-infected is relatively small. Second, all the works that have been carried out in the field are separate; there are no unified data, classes, and evaluation protocols. In this work, based on public and newly collected data, we propose two X-ray COVID-19 databases, which are three-class COVID-19 and five-class COVID-19 datasets. For both databases, we evaluate different deep learning architectures. Moreover, we propose an Ensemble-CNNs approach which outperforms the deep learning architectures and shows promising results in both databases. In other words, our proposed Ensemble-CNNs achieved a high performance in the recognition of COVID-19 infection, resulting in accuracies of 100% and 98.1% in the three-class and five-class scenarios, respectively. In addition, our approach achieved promising results in the overall recognition accuracy of 75.23% and 81.0% for the three-class and five-class scenarios, respectively. We make our databases of COVID-19 X-ray scans publicly available to encourage other researchers to use it as a benchmark for their studies and comparisons.

Measurement ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 109953
Author(s):  
Adhiyaman Manickam ◽  
Jianmin Jiang ◽  
Yu Zhou ◽  
Abhinav Sagar ◽  
Rajkumar Soundrapandiyan ◽  
...  

Symmetry ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (7) ◽  
pp. 1146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmed T. Sahlol ◽  
Mohamed Abd Elaziz ◽  
Amani Tariq Jamal ◽  
Robertas Damaševičius ◽  
Osama Farouk Hassan

Tuberculosis (TB) is is an infectious disease that generally attacks the lungs and causes death for millions of people annually. Chest radiography and deep-learning-based image segmentation techniques can be utilized for TB diagnostics. Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) has shown advantages in medical image recognition applications as powerful models to extract informative features from images. Here, we present a novel hybrid method for efficient classification of chest X-ray images. First, the features are extracted from chest X-ray images using MobileNet, a CNN model, which was previously trained on the ImageNet dataset. Then, to determine which of these features are the most relevant, we apply the Artificial Ecosystem-based Optimization (AEO) algorithm as a feature selector. The proposed method is applied to two public benchmark datasets (Shenzhen and Dataset 2) and allows them to achieve high performance and reduced computational time. It selected successfully only the best 25 and 19 (for Shenzhen and Dataset 2, respectively) features out of about 50,000 features extracted with MobileNet, while improving the classification accuracy (90.2% for Shenzen dataset and 94.1% for Dataset 2). The proposed approach outperforms other deep learning methods, while the results are the best compared to other recently published works on both datasets.


Author(s):  
Mohammed Y. Kamil

COVID-19 disease has rapidly spread all over the world at the beginning of this year. The hospitals' reports have told that low sensitivity of RT-PCR tests in the infection early stage. At which point, a rapid and accurate diagnostic technique, is needed to detect the Covid-19. CT has been demonstrated to be a successful tool in the diagnosis of disease. A deep learning framework can be developed to aid in evaluating CT exams to provide diagnosis, thus saving time for disease control. In this work, a deep learning model was modified to Covid-19 detection via features extraction from chest X-ray and CT images. Initially, many transfer-learning models have applied and comparison it, then a VGG-19 model was tuned to get the best results that can be adopted in the disease diagnosis. Diagnostic performance was assessed for all models used via the dataset that included 1000 images. The VGG-19 model achieved the highest accuracy of 99%, sensitivity of 97.4%, and specificity of 99.4%. The deep learning and image processing demonstrated high performance in early Covid-19 detection. It shows to be an auxiliary detection way for clinical doctors and thus contribute to the control of the pandemic.


Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (19) ◽  
pp. 6655
Author(s):  
Michael Horry ◽  
Subrata Chakraborty ◽  
Biswajeet Pradhan ◽  
Manoranjan Paul ◽  
Douglas Gomes ◽  
...  

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death and morbidity worldwide. Many studies have shown machine learning models to be effective in detecting lung nodules from chest X-ray images. However, these techniques have yet to be embraced by the medical community due to several practical, ethical, and regulatory constraints stemming from the “black-box” nature of deep learning models. Additionally, most lung nodules visible on chest X-rays are benign; therefore, the narrow task of computer vision-based lung nodule detection cannot be equated to automated lung cancer detection. Addressing both concerns, this study introduces a novel hybrid deep learning and decision tree-based computer vision model, which presents lung cancer malignancy predictions as interpretable decision trees. The deep learning component of this process is trained using a large publicly available dataset on pathological biomarkers associated with lung cancer. These models are then used to inference biomarker scores for chest X-ray images from two independent data sets, for which malignancy metadata is available. Next, multi-variate predictive models were mined by fitting shallow decision trees to the malignancy stratified datasets and interrogating a range of metrics to determine the best model. The best decision tree model achieved sensitivity and specificity of 86.7% and 80.0%, respectively, with a positive predictive value of 92.9%. Decision trees mined using this method may be considered as a starting point for refinement into clinically useful multi-variate lung cancer malignancy models for implementation as a workflow augmentation tool to improve the efficiency of human radiologists.


Author(s):  
Yuchen Zhang ◽  
Yanyan Zhang

Pneumonia is a leading cause of death worldwide, and one of the most significant approaches to diagnose pneumonia is Chest X-ray (CXR) since it was used in clinical scenes. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been widely used in computer vision community. Along with the development of CNNs, we want to make use of CNNs to recognize CXR of people who get pneumonia and make classification. It is important, especially during epidemic period. In this paper, we present a new type of residual learning framework, PEPX-Resnet, which makes use of a type of lightweight residual, and apply this network to CXR dataset. The result shows that PEPX-Resnet is easier to optimize and can have better results, especially for COVID-19 cases. PEPX-Resnet could reach higher accuracy, f1 score and some other evaluations for CXR dataset.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hanan Alghamdi ◽  
Ghada Amoudi ◽  
Salma Elhag ◽  
Kawther Saeedi ◽  
Jomanah Nasser

UNSTRUCTURED Chest X-ray (CXR) imaging is a standard and crucial examination method used for suspected cases of coronavirus disease (COVID-19). In profoundly affected or limited resource areas, CXR imaging is preferable owing to its availability, low cost, and rapid results. However, given the rapidly spreading nature of COVID-19, such tests could limit the efficiency of pandemic control and prevention. In response to this issue, artificial intelligence methods such as deep learning are promising options for automatic diagnosis because they have achieved state-of-the-art performance in the analysis of visual information and a wide range of medical images. This paper reviews and critically assesses the preprint and published reports between March and May 2020 for the diagnosis of COVID-19 via CXR images using convolutional neural networks and other deep learning architectures. Despite the encouraging results, there is an urgent need for public, comprehensive, and diverse datasets. Further investigations in terms of explainable and justifiable decisions are also required for more robust, transparent, and accurate predictions


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sonam Aggarwal ◽  
Sheifali Gupta ◽  
Adi Alhudhaif ◽  
Deepika Koundal ◽  
Rupesh Gupta ◽  
...  

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Woan Ching Serena Low ◽  
Joon Huang Chuah ◽  
Clarence Augustine T. H. Tee ◽  
Shazia Anis ◽  
Muhammad Ali Shoaib ◽  
...  

Pneumonia is an infamous life-threatening lung bacterial or viral infection. The latest viral infection endangering the lives of many people worldwide is the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), which causes COVID-19. This paper is aimed at detecting and differentiating viral pneumonia and COVID-19 disease using digital X-ray images. The current practices include tedious conventional processes that solely rely on the radiologist or medical consultant’s technical expertise that are limited, time-consuming, inefficient, and outdated. The implementation is easily prone to human errors of being misdiagnosed. The development of deep learning and technology improvement allows medical scientists and researchers to venture into various neural networks and algorithms to develop applications, tools, and instruments that can further support medical radiologists. This paper presents an overview of deep learning techniques made in the chest radiography on COVID-19 and pneumonia cases.


x-rays are the most commonly performed which are costly diagnostic imaging tests ordered by physicians. Here we are proposing an artificial intelligence system that can reliably separate normal from abnormal would be invaluable in addressing the problem of undiagnosed disease and the lack of radiologists in low-resource settings. The aim of this study is to develop and validate a deep learning system to detect chest x-ray abnormalities and hence detect Tuberculosis (TB) and to provide a tool for Computer Aided Diagnosis (CAD).In this paper by trying to explore existing systems of Image Processing and Deep learning architectures, we are trying to achieve radiologist level detection as well as lower False Negative detection of TB by using ensemble datasets and algorithms. The prototype of a WebApp is created and can be checked on https://parth-patel12.github.io where one can upload the chest x-ray which give probabilities of the chest x-ray to be normal or TB affected.


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