scholarly journals WisdomNet: Prognosis of COVID-19 with Slender Prospect of False Negative Cases and Vaticinating the Probability of Maturation to ARDS using Posteroanterior Chest X-Rays

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (suppl 1) ◽  
pp. 869-878
Author(s):  
Peeyush Kumar ◽  
Ayushe Gangal ◽  
Sunita Kumari

Coronavirus is a large virus family consisting of diverse viruses, some of which disseminate among mammals and others cause sickness among humans. COVID-19 is highly contagious and is rapidly spreading, rendering its early diagnosis of preeminent status. Researchers, medical specialists and organizations all over the globe have been working tirelessly to combat this virus and help in its containment. In this paper, a novel neural network called WisdomNet has been proposed, for the diagnosis of COVID-19 using chest X-rays. The WisdomNet uses the concept of ‘Wisdom of Crowds’ as its founding idea. It is a two-layered convolutional Neural Network (CNN), which takes chest x-ray images as input. Both layers of the proposed neural network consist of a number of neural networks each. The dataset used for this study consists of chest x-ray images of COVID-19 positive patients, compiled and shared by Dr. Cohen on GitHub, and the chest x-ray images of healthy lungs and lungs affected by viral and bacterial pneumonia were obtained from Kaggle. The network not only pinpoints the presence of COVID-19, but also gives the probability of the disease maturing into Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS). Thus, predicting the progression of the disease in the COVID-19 positive patients. The network also slender the occurrences of false negative cases by employing a high threshold value, thus aids in curbing the spread of the disease and gives an accuracy of 100% for successfully predicting COVID-19 among the chest x-rays of patients affected with COVID-19, bacterial and viral pneumonia.

Author(s):  
P. Srinivasa Rao ◽  
Pradeep Bheemavarapu ◽  
P. S. Latha Kalyampudi ◽  
T. V. Madhusudhana Rao

Background: Coronavirus (COVID-19) is a group of infectious diseases caused by related viruses called coronaviruses. In humans, the seriousness of infection caused by a coronavirus in the respiratory tract can vary from mild to lethal. A serious illness can be developed in old people and those with underlying medical problems like diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cancer, and chronic respiratory disease. For the diagnosis of the coronavirus disease, due to the growing number of cases, a limited number of test kits for COVID-19 are available in the hospitals. Hence, it is important to implement an automated system as an immediate alternative diagnostic option to pause the spread of COVID-19 in the population. Objective: This paper proposes a deep learning model for classification of coronavirus infected patient detection using chest X-ray radiographs. Methods: A fully connected convolutional neural network model is developed to classify healthy and diseased X-ray radiographs. The proposed neural network model consists of seven convolutional layers with rectified linear unit, softmax (last layer) activation functions and max pooling layers which were trained using the publicly available COVID-19 dataset. Results and Conclusion: For validation of the proposed model, the publicly available chest X-ray radiograph dataset consisting COVID-19 and normal patient’s images were used. Considering the performance of the results that are evaluated based on various evaluation metrics such as precision, recall, MSE, RMSE & accuracy, it is seen that the accuracy of the proposed CNN model is 98.07%.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2071 (1) ◽  
pp. 012001
Author(s):  
J Ureta ◽  
A Shrestha

Abstract Tuberculosis(TB) is one of the top 10 causes of death worldwide, and drug-resistant TB is a major public health concern especially in resource-constrained countries. In such countries, molecular diagnosis of drug-resistant TB remains a challenge; and imaging tools such as X-rays, which are cheaply and widely available, can be a valuable supplemental resource for early detection and screening. This study uses a specialized convolutional neural network to perform binary classification of chest X-ray images to classify drug-resistant and drug-sensitive TB. The models were trained and validated using the TBPortals dataset which contains 2,973 labeled X-ray images from TB patients. The classifiers were able to identify the presence or absence of drug-resistant Tuberculosis with an AUROC between 0.66–0.67, which is an improvement over previous attempts using deep learning networks.


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 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amit Kumar Jaiswal ◽  
Prayag Tiwari ◽  
Vipin Kumar Rathi ◽  
Jia Qian ◽  
Hari Mohan Pandey ◽  
...  

The trending global pandemic of COVID-19 is the fastest ever impact which caused people worldwide by severe acute respiratory syndrome~(SARS)-driven coronavirus. However, several countries suffer from the shortage of test kits and high false negative rate in PCR test. Enhancing the chest X-ray or CT detection rate becomes critical. The patient triage is of utmost importance and the use of machine learning can drive the diagnosis of chest X-ray or CT image by identifying COVID-19 cases. To tackle this problem, we propose~COVIDPEN~-~a transfer learning approach on Pruned EfficientNet-based model for the detection of COVID-19 cases. The proposed model is further interpolated by post-hoc analysis for the explainability of the predictions. The effectiveness of our proposed model is demonstrated on two systematic datasets of chest radiographs and computed tomography scans. Experimental results with several baseline comparisons show that our method is on par and confers clinically explicable instances, which are meant for healthcare providers.


Technologies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 98
Author(s):  
Gabriel Ackall ◽  
Mohammed Elmzoudi ◽  
Richard Yuan ◽  
Cuixian Chen

COVID-19 has spread rapidly across the world since late 2019. As of December, 2021, there are over 250 million documented COVID-19 cases and over 5 million deaths worldwide, which have caused businesses, schools, and government operations to shut down. The most common method of detecting COVID-19 is the RT-PCR swab test, which suffers from a high false-negative rate and a very slow turnaround for results, often up to two weeks. Because of this, specialists often manually review X-ray images of the lungs to detect the presence of COVID-19 with up to 97% accuracy. Neural network algorithms greatly accelerate this review process, analyzing hundreds of X-rays in seconds. Using the Cohen COVID-19 X-ray Database and the NIH ChestX-ray8 Database, we trained and constructed the xRGM-NET convolutional neural network (CNN) to detect COVID-19 in X-ray scans of the lungs. To further aid medical professionals in the manual review of X-rays, we implemented the CNN activation mapping technique Score-CAM, which generates a heat map over an X-ray to illustrate which areas in the scan are most influential over the ultimate diagnosis. xRGM-NET achieved an overall classification accuracy of 97% with a sensitivity of 94% and specificity of 97%. Lightweight models like xRGM-NET can serve to improve the efficiency and accuracy of COVID-19 detection in developing countries or rural areas. In this paper, we report on our model and methods that were developed as part of a STEM enrichment summer program for high school students. We hope that our model and methods will allow other researchers to create lightweight and accurate models as more COVID-19 X-ray scans become available.


Author(s):  
Dilbag Singh ◽  
Vijay Kumar ◽  
Vaishali Yadav ◽  
Manjit Kaur

There are limited coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) testing kits, therefore, development of other diagnosis approaches is desirable. The doctors generally utilize chest X-rays and Computed Tomography (CT) scans to diagnose pneumonia, lung inflammation, abscesses, and/or enlarged lymph nodes. Since COVID-19 attacks the epithelial cells that line our respiratory tract, therefore, X-ray images are utilized in this paper, to classify the patients with infected (COVID-19 [Formula: see text]ve) and uninfected (COVID-19 [Formula: see text]ve) lungs. Almost all hospitals have X-ray imaging machines, therefore, the chest X-ray images can be used to test for COVID-19 without utilizing any kind of dedicated test kits. However, the chest X-ray-based COVID-19 classification requires a radiology expert and significant time, which is precious when COVID-19 infection is increasing at a rapid rate. Therefore, the development of an automated analysis approach is desirable to save the medical professionals’ valuable time. In this paper, a deep convolutional neural network (CNN) approach is designed and implemented. Besides, the hyper-parameters of CNN are tuned using Multi-objective Adaptive Differential Evolution (MADE). Extensive experiments are performed by considering the benchmark COVID-19 dataset. Comparative analysis reveals that the proposed technique outperforms the competitive machine learning models in terms of various performance metrics.


Author(s):  
V. N. Manjunath Aradhya ◽  
Mufti Mahmud ◽  
D. S. Guru ◽  
Basant Agarwal ◽  
M. Shamim Kaiser

AbstractCoronavirus disease (COVID-19) has infected over more than 28.3 million people around the globe and killed 913K people worldwide as on 11 September 2020. With this pandemic, to combat the spreading of COVID-19, effective testing methodologies and immediate medical treatments are much required. Chest X-rays are the widely available modalities for immediate diagnosis of COVID-19. Hence, automation of detection of COVID-19 from chest X-ray images using machine learning approaches is of greater demand. A model for detecting COVID-19 from chest X-ray images is proposed in this paper. A novel concept of cluster-based one-shot learning is introduced in this work. The introduced concept has an advantage of learning from a few samples against learning from many samples in case of deep leaning architectures. The proposed model is a multi-class classification model as it classifies images of four classes, viz., pneumonia bacterial, pneumonia virus, normal, and COVID-19. The proposed model is based on ensemble of Generalized Regression Neural Network (GRNN) and Probabilistic Neural Network (PNN) classifiers at decision level. The effectiveness of the proposed model has been demonstrated through extensive experimentation on a publicly available dataset consisting of 306 images. The proposed cluster-based one-shot learning has been found to be more effective on GRNN and PNN ensembled model to distinguish COVID-19 images from that of the other three classes. It has also been experimentally observed that the model has a superior performance over contemporary deep learning architectures. The concept of one-shot cluster-based learning is being first of its kind in literature, expected to open up several new dimensions in the field of machine learning which require further researching for various applications.


2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 9
Author(s):  
Buyut Khoirul Umri ◽  
Ema Utami ◽  
Mei P Kurniawan

Covid-19 menyerang sel-sel epitel yang melapisi saluran pernapasan sehingga dalam kasus ini dapat memanfaatkan gambar x-ray dada untuk menganalisis kesehatan paru-paru pada pasien. Menggunakan x-ray dalam bidang medis merupakan metode yang lebih cepat, lebih mudah dan tidak berbahaya yang dapat dimanfaatkan pada banyak hal. Salah satu metode yang paling sering digunakan dalam klasifikasi gambar adalah convolutional neural networks (CNN). CNN merupahan jenis neural network yang sering digunakan dalam data gambar dan sering digunakan dalam mendeteksi dan mengenali object pada sebuah gambar. Model arsitektur pada metode CNN juga dapat dikembangkan dengan transfer learning yang merupakan proses menggunakan kembali model pre-trained yang dilatih pada dataset besar, biasanya pada tugas klasifikasi gambar berskala besar. Tinjauan literature review ini digunakan untuk menganalisis penggunaan transfer learning pada CNN sebagai metode yang dapat digunakan untuk mendeteksi covid-19 pada gambar x-ray dada. Hasil sistematis review menunjukkan bahwa algoritma CNN dapat digunakan dengan akruasi yang baik dalam mendeteksi covid-19 pada gambar x-ray dada dan dengan pengembangan model transfer learning mampu mendapatkan performa yang maksimal dengan dataset yang besar maupun kecil.Kata Kunci—CNN, transfer learning, deteksi, covid-19Covid-19 attacks the epithelial cells lining the respiratory tract so that in this case it can utilize chest x-ray images to analyze the health of the lungs in patients. Using x-rays in the medical field is a faster, easier and harmless method that can be utilized in many ways. One of the most frequently used methods in image classification is convolutional neural networks (CNN). CNN is a type of neural network that is often used in image data and is often used in detecting and recognizing objects in an image. The architectural model in the CNN method can also be developed with transfer learning which is the process of reusing pre-trained models that are trained on large datasets, usually on the task of classifying large-scale images. This literature review review is used to analyze the use of transfer learning on CNN as a method that can be used to detect covid-19 on chest x-ray images. The systematic review results show that the CNN algorithm can be used with good accuracy in detecting covid-19 on chest x-ray images and by developing transfer learning models able to get maximum performance with large and small datasets.Keywords—CNN, transfer learning, detection, covid-19


Author(s):  
Lawrence Hall ◽  
Dmitry Goldgof ◽  
Rahul Paul ◽  
Gregory M. Goldgof

<p>Testing for COVID-19 has been unable to keep up with the demand. Further, the false negative rate is projected to be as high as 30% and test results can take some time to obtain. X-ray machines are widely available and provide images for diagnosis quickly. This paper explores how useful chest X-ray images can be in diagnosing COVID-19 disease. We have obtained 122 chest X-rays of COVID-19 and over 4,000 chest X-rays of viral and bacterial pneumonia. Unfortunately, we missed the fact that the chest X-rays of viral and bacterial pneumonia came from children under 5 years old. So, this work shows that you can tell kids with pneumonia from COVID-19 adult cases which is not anyone's goal. However, data from adult chest X-rays of other causes of lung disease is needed to see if you can tell adult diseases apart.<br></p>


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-30
Author(s):  
Arun Prasad Mohan

There are more than one million cases of lung cancer per year in India alone. Early detection is vital in increasing the survival rate and decreasing treatment costs. This research is aimed at building a deep convolutional neural network which uses chest x-rays to identify lung mass, and then make a comparative study by tuning the hyperparameters. NIH Chest X-Ray Dataset containing more than 112,000 images were used for training and testing. The data was analysed and then fed to the neural network. Accuracy of over 96% was obtained in all the trials. A comparative study by varying the number of inputs and varying the number of hidden layers was carried out. The accuracies obtained were compared and was found that the accuracy increased with the increase in the number of hidden layers. A complete product was then ideated which when implemented would be a vital diagnostic tool and can be used in the remote locations of a country having just x-ray facilities and no other advanced medical equipment like CT.


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