scholarly journals Automated detection of superficial fungal infections from microscopic images through a regional convolutional neural network

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (8) ◽  
pp. e0256290
Author(s):  
Taehan Koo ◽  
Moon Hwan Kim ◽  
Mihn-Sook Jue

Direct microscopic examination with potassium hydroxide is generally used as a screening method for diagnosing superficial fungal infections. Although this type of examination is faster than other diagnostic methods, it can still be time-consuming to evaluate a complete sample; additionally, it possesses the disadvantage of inconsistent reliability as the accuracy of the reading may differ depending on the performer’s skill. This study aims at detecting hyphae more quickly, conveniently, and consistently through deep learning using images obtained from microscopy used in real-world practice. An object detection convolutional neural network, YOLO v4, was trained on microscopy images with magnifications of 100×, 40×, and (100+40)×. The study was conducted at the Department of Dermatology at Veterans Health Service Medical Center, Seoul, Korea between January 1, 2019 and December 31, 2019, using 3,707 images (1,255 images for training, 1,645 images for testing). The average precision was used to evaluate the accuracy of object detection. Precision recall curve analysis was performed for the hyphal location determination, and receiver operating characteristic curve analysis was performed on the image classification. The F1 score, sensitivity, and specificity values were used as measures of the overall performance. The sensitivity and specificity were, respectively, 95.2% and 100% in the 100× data model, and 99% and 86.6% in the 40× data model; the sensitivity and specificity in the combined (100+40)× data model were 93.2% and 89%, respectively. The performance of our model had high sensitivity and specificity, indicating that hyphae can be detected with reliable accuracy. Thus, our deep learning-based autodetection model can detect hyphae in microscopic images obtained from real-world practice. We aim to develop an automatic hyphae detection system that can be utilized in real-world practice through continuous research.

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (22) ◽  
pp. 9785
Author(s):  
Kisu Lee ◽  
Goopyo Hong ◽  
Lee Sael ◽  
Sanghyo Lee ◽  
Ha Young Kim

Defects in residential building façades affect the structural integrity of buildings and degrade external appearances. Defects in a building façade are typically managed using manpower during maintenance. This approach is time-consuming, yields subjective results, and can lead to accidents or casualties. To address this, we propose a building façade monitoring system that utilizes an object detection method based on deep learning to efficiently manage defects by minimizing the involvement of manpower. The dataset used for training a deep-learning-based network contains actual residential building façade images. Various building designs in these raw images make it difficult to detect defects because of their various types and complex backgrounds. We employed the faster regions with convolutional neural network (Faster R-CNN) structure for more accurate defect detection in such environments, achieving an average precision (intersection over union (IoU) = 0.5) of 62.7% for all types of trained defects. As it is difficult to detect defects in a training environment, it is necessary to improve the performance of the network. However, the object detection network employed in this study yields an excellent performance in complex real-world images, indicating the possibility of developing a system that would detect defects in more types of building façades.


2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (8) ◽  
pp. 3478-3483
Author(s):  
V. Sravan Chowdary ◽  
G. Penchala Sai Teja ◽  
D. Mounesh ◽  
G. Manideep ◽  
C. T. Manimegalai

Road injuries are a big drawback in society for a few time currently. Ignoring sign boards while moving on roads has significantly become a major cause for road accidents. Thus we came up with an approach to face this issue by detecting the sign board and recognition of sign board. At this moment there are several deep learning models for object detection using totally different algorithms like RCNN, faster RCNN, SPP-net, etc. We prefer to use Yolo-3, which improves the speed and precision of object detection. This algorithm will increase the accuracy by utilizing residual units, skip connections and up-sampling. This algorithm uses a framework named Dark-net. This framework is intended specifically to create the neural network for training the Yolo algorithm. To thoroughly detect the sign board, we used this algorithm.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (21) ◽  
pp. 10301
Author(s):  
Muhammad Shoaib Farooq ◽  
Attique Ur Rehman ◽  
Muhammad Idrees ◽  
Muhammad Ahsan Raza ◽  
Jehad Ali ◽  
...  

COVID-19 has been difficult to diagnose and treat at an early stage all over the world. The numbers of patients showing symptoms for COVID-19 have caused medical facilities at hospitals to become unavailable or overcrowded, which is a major challenge. Studies have recently allowed us to determine that COVID-19 can be diagnosed with the aid of chest X-ray images. To combat the COVID-19 outbreak, developing a deep learning (DL) based model for automated COVID-19 diagnosis on chest X-ray is beneficial. In this research, we have proposed a customized convolutional neural network (CNN) model to detect COVID-19 from chest X-ray images. The model is based on nine layers which uses a binary classification method to differentiate between COVID-19 and normal chest X-rays. It provides COVID-19 detection early so the patients can be admitted in a timely fashion. The proposed model was trained and tested on two publicly available datasets. Cross-dataset studies are used to assess the robustness in a real-world context. Six hundred X-ray images were used for training and two hundred X-rays were used for validation of the model. The X-ray images of the dataset were preprocessed to improve the results and visualized for better analysis. The developed algorithm reached 98% precision, recall and f1-score. The cross-dataset studies also demonstrate the resilience of deep learning algorithms in a real-world context with 98.5 percent accuracy. Furthermore, a comparison table was created which shows that our proposed model outperforms other relative models in terms of accuracy. The quick and high-performance of our proposed DL-based customized model identifies COVID-19 patients quickly, which is helpful in controlling the COVID-19 outbreak.


2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (S2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Asmida Ismail ◽  
Siti Anom Ahmad ◽  
Azura Che Soh ◽  
Mohd Khair Hassan ◽  
Hazreen Haizi Harith

The object detection system is a computer technology related to image processing and computer vision that detects instances of semantic objects of a certain class in digital images and videos. The system consists of two main processes, which are classification and detection. Once an object instance has been classified and detected, it is possible to obtain further information, including recognizes the specific instance, track the object over an image sequence and extract further information about the object and the scene. This paper presented an analysis performance of deep learning object detector by combining a deep learning Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) for object classification and applies classic object detection algorithms to devise our own deep learning object detector. MiniVGGNet is an architecture network used to train an object classification, and the data used for this purpose was collected from specific indoor environment building. For object detection, sliding windows and image pyramids were used to localize and detect objects at different locations, and non-maxima suppression (NMS) was used to obtain the final bounding box to localize the object location. Based on the experiment result, the percentage of classification accuracy of the network is 80% to 90% and the time for the system to detect the object is less than 15sec/frame. Experimental results show that there are reasonable and efficient to combine classic object detection method with a deep learning classification approach. The performance of this method can work in some specific use cases and effectively solving the problem of the inaccurate classification and detection of typical features.


Author(s):  
Melchiezhedhieck J. Bongao ◽  
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Arvin F. Almadin ◽  
Christian L. Falla ◽  
Juan Carlo F. Greganda ◽  
...  

This Raspberry Single-Board Computer-Based Object and Text Real-time Recognition Wearable Device using Convolutional Neural Network through TensorFlow Deep Learning, Python and C++ programming languages, and SQLite database application, which detect stationary objects, road signs and Philippine (PHP) money bills, and recognized texts through camera and translate it to audible outputs such as English and Filipino languages. Moreover, the system has a battery notification status using an Arduino microcontroller unit. It also has a switch for object detection mode, text recognition mode, and battery status report mode. This could fulfill the incapability of visually impaired in identifying of objects and the lack of reading ability as well as reducing the assistance that visually impaired needs. Descriptive quantitative research, Waterfall System Development Life Cycle and Evolutionary Prototyping Models were used as the methodologies of this study. Visually impaired persons and the Persons with Disability Affairs Office of the City Government of Biñan, Laguna, Philippines served as the main respondents of the survey conducted. Obtained results stipulated that the object detection, text recognition, and its attributes were accurate and reliable, which gives a significant distinction from the current system to detect objects and recognize printed texts for the visually impaired people.


Soft Matter ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (7) ◽  
pp. 1751-1759 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric N. Minor ◽  
Stian D. Howard ◽  
Adam A. S. Green ◽  
Matthew A. Glaser ◽  
Cheol S. Park ◽  
...  

We demonstrate a method for training a convolutional neural network with simulated images for usage on real-world experimental data.


Author(s):  
S Gopi Naik

Abstract: The plan is to establish an integrated system that can manage high-quality visual information and also detect weapons quickly and efficiently. It is obtained by integrating ARM-based computer vision and optimization algorithms with deep neural networks able to detect the presence of a threat. The whole system is connected to a Raspberry Pi module, which will capture live broadcasting and evaluate it using a deep convolutional neural network. Due to the intimate interaction between object identification and video and image analysis in real-time objects, By generating sophisticated ensembles that incorporate various low-level picture features with high-level information from object detection and scenario classifiers, their performance can quickly plateau. Deep learning models, which can learn semantic, high-level, deeper features, have been developed to overcome the issues that are present in optimization algorithms. It presents a review of deep learning based object detection frameworks that use Convolutional Neural Network layers for better understanding of object detection. The Mobile-Net SSD model behaves differently in network design, training methods, and optimization functions, among other things. The crime rate in suspicious areas has been reduced as a consequence of weapon detection. However, security is always a major concern in human life. The Raspberry Pi module, or computer vision, has been extensively used in the detection and monitoring of weapons. Due to the growing rate of human safety protection, privacy and the integration of live broadcasting systems which can detect and analyse images, suspicious areas are becoming indispensable in intelligence. This process uses a Mobile-Net SSD algorithm to achieve automatic weapons and object detection. Keywords: Computer Vision, Weapon and Object Detection, Raspberry Pi Camera, RTSP, SMTP, Mobile-Net SSD, CNN, Artificial Intelligence.


In this paper a method of recognizing logos of the brand of cosmetic products using deep learning. There are several of hoax product which easily copies the famous brand’s logo and deteriorates the company’s image. The machine learning has proved to be useful in various of the fields like medical, object detection, vehicle logo recognitions. But till now very few of the works have been performed in cosmetic field. This field is covered using the model sequential convolutional neural network using Tensorflow and Keras. For the visual representation of the result Tensorboard is used. Work have been started with two of the brands-Lakme and L’Oreal. Depending upon the success of this technique, further brands for logo may be added for recognition. The accuracy of approximately 80% was obtained using this technique.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abhinav Sundar

The objective of this thesis was to evaluate the viability of implementation of an object recognition algorithm driven by deep learning for aerospace manufacturing, maintenance and assembly tasks. Comparison research has found that current computer vision methods such as, spatial mapping was limited to macro-object recognition because of its nodal wireframe analysis. An optical object recognition algorithm was trained to learn complex geometric and chromatic characteristics, therefore allowing for micro-object recognition, such as cables and other critical components. This thesis investigated the use of a convolutional neural network with object recognition algorithms. The viability of two categories of object recognition algorithms were analyzed: image prediction and object detection. Due to a viral epidemic, this thesis was limited in analytical consistency as resources were not readily available. The prediction-class algorithm was analyzed using a custom dataset comprised of 15 552 images of the MaxFlight V2002 Full Motion Simulator’s inverter system, and a model was created by transfer-learning that dataset onto the InceptionV3 convolutional neural network (CNN). The detection-class algorithm was analyzed using a custom dataset comprised of 100 images of two SUVs of different brand and style, and a model was created by transfer-learning that dataset onto the YOLOv3 deep learning architecture. The tests showed that the object recognition algorithms successfully identified the components with good accuracy, 99.97% mAP for prediction-class and 89.54% mAP. For detection-class. The accuracies and data collected with literature review found that object detection algorithms are accuracy, created for live -feed analysis and were suitable for the significant applications of AVI and aircraft assembly. In the future, a larger dataset needs to be complied to increase reliability and a custom convolutional neural network and deep learning algorithm needs to be developed specifically for aerospace assembly, maintenance and manufacturing applications.


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