scholarly journals Digital Image Segmentation Resulting from X-Rays of Covid Patients using K-Means and Extraction Features Method

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-28
Author(s):  
Dhian Satria Yudha Kartika ◽  
Anita Wulansari ◽  
Hendra Maulana ◽  
Eristya Maya Safitri ◽  
Faisal Muttaqin

The COVID-19 pandemic has significant impact on people's lives such as economic, social, psychological and health conditions. The health sector, which is spearheading the handling of the outbreak, has conducted a lot of research and trials related to COVID-19. Coughing is a common symptoms among humans affected by COVID-19 in earlier stage. The first step when a patient shows symptoms of COVID-19 was to conduct a chest x-ray imaging. The chest x-rayss can be used as a digital image dataset for analysing  the spread of the virus that enters the lungs or respiratory tract. In this study, 864 x-rays  were used as datasets. The images were still raw, taken directly from Covid-19 patients, so there were still a lot of noise. The process to remove unnecessary images would be carried out in the pre-processing stage. The images used as datasets were not mixed with the background which can reduce the value at the next stage. All datasets were made to have a uniform size and pixels to obtain a standard quality and size in order to support the next stage, namely segmentation. The segmentation stage of the x-ray datasets of Covid-19 patients was carried out using the k-means method and feature extraction. The Confusion Matrix method used as testing process. The accuracy value was 78.5%. The results of this testing process were 78.5% of precision value, 78% of recall and  79% for f-measure

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hamzeh Asgharnezhad ◽  
Afshar Shamsi ◽  
Roohallah Alizadehsani ◽  
Abbas Khosravi ◽  
Saeid Nahavandi ◽  
...  

Abstract Deep neural networks (DNNs) have been widely applied for detecting COVID-19 in medical images. Existing studies mainly apply transfer learning and other data representation strategies to generate accurate point estimates. The generalization power of these networks is always questionable due to being developed using small datasets and failing to report their predictive confidence. Quantifying uncertainties associated with DNN predictions is a prerequisite for their trusted deployment in medical settings. Here we apply and evaluate three uncertainty quantification techniques for COVID-19 detection using chest X-Ray (CXR) images. The novel concept of uncertainty confusion matrix is proposed and new performance metrics for the objective evaluation of uncertainty estimates are introduced. Through comprehensive experiments, it is shown that networks pertained on CXR images outperform networks pretrained on natural image datasets such as ImageNet. Qualitatively and quantitatively evaluations also reveal that the predictive uncertainty estimates are statistically higher for erroneous predictions than correct predictions. Accordingly, uncertainty quantification methods are capable of flagging risky predictions with high uncertainty estimates. We also observe that ensemble methods more reliably capture uncertainties during the inference. DNN-based solutions for COVID-19 detection have been mainly proposed without any principled mechanism for risk mitigation. Previous studies have mainly focused on on generating single-valued predictions using pretrained DNNs. In this paper, we comprehensively apply and comparatively evaluate three uncertainty quantification techniques for COVID-19 detection using chest X-Ray images. The novel concept of uncertainty confusion matrix is proposed and new performance metrics for the objective evaluation of uncertainty estimates are introduced for the first time. Using these new uncertainty performance metrics, we quantitatively demonstrate where and when we could trust DNN predictions for COVID-19 detection from chest X-rays. It is important to note the proposed novel uncertainty evaluation metrics are generic and could be applied for evaluation of probabilistic forecasts in all classification problems.


Author(s):  
Lakshmisetty Ruthvik Raj ◽  
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Bitra Harsha Vardhan ◽  
Mullapudi Raghu Vamsi ◽  
Keerthikeshwar Reddy Mamilla ◽  
...  

COVID-19 is a severe and potentially fatal respiratory infection called coronavirus 2 disease (SARS-Co-2). COVID-19 is easily detectable on an abnormal chest x-ray. Numerous extensive studies have been conducted due to the findings, demonstrating how precise the detection of coronas using X-rays within the chest is. To train a deep learning network, such as a convolutional neural network, a large amount of data is required. Due to the recent end of the pandemic, it is difficult to collect many Covid x-ray images in a short period. The purpose of this study is to demonstrate how X-ray imaging (CXR) is created using the Covid CNN model-based convolutional network. Additionally, we demonstrate that the performance of CNNs and various COVID-19 acquisition algorithms can be used to generate synthetic images from data extensions. Alone, with CNN distribution, an accuracy of 85 percent was achieved. The accuracy has been increased to 95% by adding artificial images generated from data. We anticipate that this approach will expedite the discovery of COVID-19 and result in radiological solid programs. We leverage transfer learning in this paper to reduce time complexity and achieve the highest accuracy.


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.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mundher Taresh ◽  
Ningbo Zhu ◽  
Talal Ahmed Ali Ali

AbstractNovel coronavirus pneumonia (COVID-19) is a contagious disease that has already caused thousands of deaths and infected millions of people worldwide. Thus, all technological gadgets that allow the fast detection of COVID-19 infection with high accuracy can offer help to healthcare professionals. This study is purposed to explore the effectiveness of artificial intelligence (AI) in the rapid and reliable detection of COVID-19 based on chest X-ray imaging. In this study, reliable pre-trained deep learning algorithms were applied to achieve the automatic detection of COVID-19-induced pneumonia from digital chest X-ray images.Moreover, the study aims to evaluate the performance of advanced neural architectures proposed for the classification of medical images over recent years. The data set used in the experiments involves 274 COVID-19 cases, 380 viral pneumonia, and 380 healthy cases, which was collected from the available X-ray images on public medical repositories. The confusion matrix provided a basis for testing the post-classification model. Furthermore, an open-source library PyCM* was used to support the statistical parameters. The study revealed the superiority of Model VGG16 over other models applied to conduct this research where the model performed best in terms of overall scores and based-class scores. According to the research results, deep learning with X-ray imaging is useful in the collection of critical biological markers associated with COVID-19 infection. The technique is conducive for the physicians to make a diagnosis of COVID-19 infection. Meanwhile, the high accuracy of this computer-aided diagnostic tool can significantly improve the speed and accuracy of COVID-19 diagnosis.


Biology ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 1174
Author(s):  
Shamima Akter ◽  
F. M. Javed Mehedi Shamrat ◽  
Sovon Chakraborty ◽  
Asif Karim ◽  
Sami Azam

COVID-19, regarded as the deadliest virus of the 21st century, has claimed the lives of millions of people around the globe in less than two years. Since the virus initially affects the lungs of patients, X-ray imaging of the chest is helpful for effective diagnosis. Any method for automatic, reliable, and accurate screening of COVID-19 infection would be beneficial for rapid detection and reducing medical or healthcare professional exposure to the virus. In the past, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) proved to be quite successful in the classification of medical images. In this study, an automatic deep learning classification method for detecting COVID-19 from chest X-ray images is suggested using a CNN. A dataset consisting of 3616 COVID-19 chest X-ray images and 10,192 healthy chest X-ray images was used. The original data were then augmented to increase the data sample to 26,000 COVID-19 and 26,000 healthy X-ray images. The dataset was enhanced using histogram equalization, spectrum, grays, cyan and normalized with NCLAHE before being applied to CNN models. Initially using the dataset, the symptoms of COVID-19 were detected by employing eleven existing CNN models; VGG16, VGG19, MobileNetV2, InceptionV3, NFNet, ResNet50, ResNet101, DenseNet, EfficientNetB7, AlexNet, and GoogLeNet. From the models, MobileNetV2 was selected for further modification to obtain a higher accuracy of COVID-19 detection. Performance evaluation of the models was demonstrated using a confusion matrix. It was observed that the modified MobileNetV2 model proposed in the study gave the highest accuracy of 98% in classifying COVID-19 and healthy chest X-rays among all the implemented CNN models. The second-best performance was achieved from the pre-trained MobileNetV2 with an accuracy of 97%, followed by VGG19 and ResNet101 with 95% accuracy for both the models. The study compares the compilation time of the models. The proposed model required the least compilation time with 2 h, 50 min and 21 s. Finally, the Wilcoxon signed-rank test was performed to test the statistical significance. The results suggest that the proposed method can efficiently identify the symptoms of infection from chest X-ray images better than existing methods.


2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 58-67
Author(s):  
Pebri Andhi Herry Pratama ◽  
Rony Teguh ◽  
Abertun Sagit Sahay ◽  
Valencia Wilentine

Chest X-ray have an important function in the three areas of healthcare, namely diagnosis, treatment and re-examination. Studies from China suggest Chest Radiographs (X-Ray) and Chest Computed Comography (CT) scans can help diagnose COVID-19. Therefore, chest x-rays (x-rays) and chest computed tomography (CT) are appropriate methods for lung infections due to COVID-19. Based on this, the authors tried to make a model for the classification of digital images of Chest X-Ray results with the labels of Normal, Pneumonia, Tuberculosis (TBC), and COVID-19. Through the resulting model, the best model to use will be compared. The method used to create this model is through training and testing the dataset using the Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) architectural model, namely VGG19, ResNet50, and InceptionV3. The number of images used is 1,000 Chest X-Ray images. The dataset is divided into training and validation datasets in several ratios of 20% : 80%, 50%: 50%, and 80%: 20%. While testing uses 10% from train datset chest x-ray images as a confusion matrix dataset and 4 chest x-ray images as a prediction dataset. From the results of the research that has been done, the best model is VGG19 at 41 of 61 epoch and a ratio of 20% : 80%. Where the VGG19 model produces 94.44% for accuracy and 0,1084 loss value for training. Whereas at the testing stage with a configuration matrix, 95% accuracy value was obtained. Then for testing the new data prediction produces the best accuracy with 98.97% accuracy for the Normal label, 99.16% for COVID-19, 99.56% for Pneumonia, and 99.79% for Tuberculosis (TBC).


Author(s):  
Muhammad Irfan ◽  
Muhammad Aksam Iftikhar ◽  
Sana Yasin ◽  
Umar Draz ◽  
Tariq Ali ◽  
...  

COVID-19 syndrome has extensively escalated worldwide with the induction of the year 2020 and has resulted in the illness of millions of people. COVID-19 patients bear an elevated risk once the symptoms deteriorate. Hence, early recognition of diseased patients can facilitate early intervention and avoid disease succession. This article intends to develop a hybrid deep neural networks (HDNNs), using computed tomography (CT) and X-ray imaging, to predict the risk of the onset of disease in patients suffering from COVID-19. To be precise, the subjects were classified into 3 categories namely normal, Pneumonia, and COVID-19. Initially, the CT and chest X-ray images, denoted as ‘hybrid images’ (with resolution 1080 × 1080) were collected from different sources, including GitHub, COVID-19 radiography database, Kaggle, COVID-19 image data collection, and Actual Med COVID-19 Chest X-ray Dataset, which are open source and publicly available data repositories. The 80% hybrid images were used to train the hybrid deep neural network model and the remaining 20% were used for the testing purpose. The capability and prediction accuracy of the HDNNs were calculated using the confusion matrix. The hybrid deep neural network showed a 99% classification accuracy on the test set data.


Author(s):  
M.G. Baldini ◽  
S. Morinaga ◽  
D. Minasian ◽  
R. Feder ◽  
D. Sayre ◽  
...  

Contact X-ray imaging is presently developing as an important imaging technique in cell biology. Our recent studies on human platelets have demonstrated that the cytoskeleton of these cells contains photondense structures which can preferentially be imaged by soft X-ray imaging. Our present research has dealt with platelet activation, i.e., the complex phenomena which precede platelet appregation and are associated with profound changes in platelet cytoskeleton. Human platelets suspended in plasma were used. Whole cell mounts were fixed and dehydrated, then exposed to a stationary source of soft X-rays as previously described. Developed replicas and respective grids were studied by scanning electron microscopy (SEM).


2021 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 93-94
Author(s):  
Jyotsna Bhushan ◽  
Shagufta Iqbal ◽  
Abhishek Chopra

A clinical case report of spontaneous pneumomediastinum in a late-preterm neonate, chest x-ray showing classical “spinnaker sail sign,” which was managed conservatively and had excellent prognosis on conservative management. Respiratory distress in a preterm neonate is a common clinical finding. Common causes include respiratory distress syndrome, transient tachypnea of the newborn, pneumonia, and pneumothorax. Pneumomediastinum is not very common cause of respiratory distress and more so spontaneous pneumomediastinum. We report here a preterm neonate with spontaneous pneumomediastinum who had excellent clinical recovery with conservative management. A male baby was delivered to G3P1A1 mother at 34 + 6 weeks through caesarean section done due to abruptio placenta. Apgar scores were 8 and 9. Maternal antenatal history was uneventful and there were no risk factors for early onset sepsis. Baby had respiratory distress soon after birth with Silverman score being 2/10. Baby was started on oxygen (O2) by nasal prongs through blender 0.5 l/min, FiO2 25%, and intravenous fluids. Blood gas done was normal. Possibility of transient tachypnea of newborn or mild hyaline membrane disease was kept. Respiratory distress increased at 20 h of life (Silverman score: 5), urgent chest x-ray done revealed “spinnaker sign” suggestive of pneumomediastinum, so baby was shifted to O2 by hood with FiO2 being 70%. Blood gas repeated was normal. Baby was managed conservatively on intravenous fluids and O2 by hood. Baby was gradually weaned off from O2 over next 5 days. As respiratory distress decreased, baby was started on orogastric feed, which baby tolerated well and then was switched to oral feeds. Serial x-rays showed resolution of pneumomediastinum. Baby was discharged on day 7 of life in stable condition on breast feeds and room air.


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