scholarly journals A Hybrid Convolutional Neural Network Model for Diagnosis of COVID-19 Using Chest X-ray Images

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (22) ◽  
pp. 12191
Author(s):  
Prabhjot Kaur ◽  
Shilpi Harnal ◽  
Rajeev Tiwari ◽  
Fahd S. Alharithi ◽  
Ahmed H. Almulihi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care Systems ◽  
Svm Classifier ◽  
Detection Accuracy ◽  
Short Supply ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Care Systems ◽  
Chest X Ray ◽  
Multiclass Svm

COVID-19 declared as a pandemic that has a faster rate of infection and has impacted the lives and the country’s economy due to forced lockdowns. Its detection using RT-PCR is required long time and due to which its infection has grown exponentially. This creates havoc for the shortage of testing kits in many countries. This work has proposed a new image processing-based technique for the health care systems named “C19D-Net”, to detect “COVID-19” infection from “Chest X-Ray” (XR) images, which can help radiologists to improve their accuracy of detection COVID-19. The proposed system extracts deep learning (DL) features by applying the InceptionV4 architecture and Multiclass SVM classifier to classify and detect COVID-19 infection into four different classes. The dataset of 1900 Chest XR images has been collected from two publicly accessible databases. Images are pre-processed with proper scaling and regular feeding to the proposed model for accuracy attainments. Extensive tests are conducted with the proposed model (“C19D-Net”) and it has succeeded to achieve the highest COVID-19 detection accuracy as 96.24% for 4-classes, 95.51% for three-classes, and 98.1% for two-classes. The proposed method has outperformed well in expressions of “precision”, “accuracy”, “F1-score” and “recall” in comparison with most of the recent previously published methods. As a result, for the present situation of COVID-19, the proposed “C19D-Net” can be employed in places where test kits are in short supply, to help the radiologists to improve their accuracy of detection of COVID-19 patients through XR-Images.

scholarly journals Covid-19 Detection Using AI

2021 ◽  
pp. 561-566
Author(s):  
Shashank Mishra ◽  
Himanshu Kumar Shukla ◽  
Rajiv Singh ◽  
Vivek Pandey ◽  
Shubham Sagar ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
High Risk ◽  
Health Care Systems ◽  
Hospital Setting ◽  
Sudden Increase ◽  
Repeated Testing ◽  
Rt Pcr ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Care Systems ◽  
Chest X Ray

The sudden increase in COVID-19 patients is a major shock to our global health care systems. With limited availability of test kits, it is not possible for all patients with respiratory infections to be tested using RT-PCR. Testing also takes a long time, with limited sensitivity. The detection of COVID-19 infections on Chest X-Ray can help isolate patients at high risk while awaiting test results. X-Ray machines are already available in many health care systems, and with many modern X-Ray systems already installed on the computer, there is no travel time involved in the samples. In this work we propose the use of chest X-Ray to prioritize the selection of patients for further RT-PCR testing. This can be useful in a hospital setting where current systems have difficulty deciding whether to keep the patient in the ward with other patients or isolate them from COVID-19 areas. It may also be helpful in identifying patients with high risk of COVID with false positive RT-PCR that will require repeated testing. In addition, we recommend the use of modern AI techniques to detect COVID-19 patients who use X-Ray imaging in an automated manner, especially in areas where radiologists are not available, and help make the proposed diagnostic technology easier. Introducing the CovidAID: COVID-19 AI Detector, a model based on a deep neural network of screening patients for proper diagnosis. In a publicly available covid-chest x-ray-dataset [2], our model provides 90.5% accuracy with 100% sensitivity (remember) to COVID-19 infection. We are greatly improving the results of Covid-Net [10] on the same database.

scholarly journals RANDGAN: Randomized generative adversarial network for detection of COVID-19 in chest X-ray

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Saman Motamed ◽  
Patrik Rogalla ◽  
Farzad Khalvati
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Medical Images ◽  
Health Care Systems ◽  
Generative Adversarial Networks ◽  
X Rays ◽  
Generative Adversarial Network ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Adversarial Network ◽  
Care Systems ◽  
Chest X Ray

AbstractCOVID-19 spread across the globe at an immense rate and has left healthcare systems incapacitated to diagnose and test patients at the needed rate. Studies have shown promising results for detection of COVID-19 from viral bacterial pneumonia in chest X-rays. Automation of COVID-19 testing using medical images can speed up the testing process of patients where health care systems lack sufficient numbers of the reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction tests. Supervised deep learning models such as convolutional neural networks need enough labeled data for all classes to correctly learn the task of detection. Gathering labeled data is a cumbersome task and requires time and resources which could further strain health care systems and radiologists at the early stages of a pandemic such as COVID-19. In this study, we propose a randomized generative adversarial network (RANDGAN) that detects images of an unknown class (COVID-19) from known and labelled classes (Normal and Viral Pneumonia) without the need for labels and training data from the unknown class of images (COVID-19). We used the largest publicly available COVID-19 chest X-ray dataset, COVIDx, which is comprised of Normal, Pneumonia, and COVID-19 images from multiple public databases. In this work, we use transfer learning to segment the lungs in the COVIDx dataset. Next, we show why segmentation of the region of interest (lungs) is vital to correctly learn the task of classification, specifically in datasets that contain images from different resources as it is the case for the COVIDx dataset. Finally, we show improved results in detection of COVID-19 cases using our generative model (RANDGAN) compared to conventional generative adversarial networks for anomaly detection in medical images, improving the area under the ROC curve from 0.71 to 0.77.

scholarly journals Classification of Chest X-Ray Images using Wavelet and MFCC Features and Support Vector Machine Classifier

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 7296-7301
Author(s):  
H. A. Owida ◽  
A. Al-Ghraibah ◽  
M. Altayeb
Keyword(s):  
Support Vector Machine ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Svm Classifier ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficients ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Public Data ◽  
Chest X Ray

The shortage and availability limitation of RT-PCR test kits and is a major concern regarding the COVID-19 pandemic. The authorities' intention is to establish steps to control the propagation of the pandemic. However, COVID-19 is radiologically diagnosable using x-ray lung images. Deep learning methods have achieved cutting-edge performance in medical diagnosis software assistance. In this work, a new diagnostic method for detecting COVID-19 disease is implemented using advanced deep learning. Effective features were extracted using wavelet analysis and Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCC) method, and they used in the classification process using the Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifier. A total of 2400 X-ray images, 1200 of them classified as Normal (healthy) and 1200 as COVID-19, have been derived from a combination of public data sets to verify the validity of the proposed model. The experimental results obtained an overall accuracy of 98.8% by using five wavelet features, where the classification using MFCC features, MFCC-delta, and MFCC-delta-delta features reached accuracy around 97% on average. The results show that the proposed model has reached the required level of success to be applicable in COVID 19 diagnosis.

scholarly journals AI_COVID: AUTOMATIC DIAGNOSIS OF COVID-19 USING FRONTAL CHEST X-RAY IMAGE

2021 ◽  
Vol XLVI-4/W5-2021 ◽  
pp. 57-63
Author(s):  
I. Allaouzi ◽  
B. Benamrou ◽  
A. Allaouzi ◽  
M. Ouardouz ◽  
M. Ben Ahmed
Keyword(s):  
High Performance ◽  
Binary Classification ◽  
Svm Classifier ◽  
X Rays ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Chest X Ray ◽  
Multi Class Classification ◽  
Performance Results ◽  
Total Accuracy

Abstract. With the continued growth of confirmed cases of COVID-19, a highly infectious disease caused by a newly discovered coronavirus called Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2, or SARS-CoV-2, there is an urgent need to find ways to help clinicians fight the virus by reducing the workload and speeding up the diagnosis of COVID-19. In this work, we propose an artificial intelligence solution “AI_COVID” which can help radiologists to know if the lungs are infected with the virus in just a few seconds.AI_COVID is based on a pre-trained DenseNet-121 model that detects subtle changes in the lungs and an SVM classifier that decides whether these changes are caused by COVID-19 or other diseases. AI_COVID is trained on thousands of frontal chest x-rays of people who have contracted COVID-19, healthy people, and people with viral or bacterial pneumonia. The experimental study is tested on 781 chest x-rays from two publicly available chest x-ray datasets COVID-19 radiography database and COVIDx Dataset. The performance results showed that our proposed model (DenseNet-121 + SVM) demonstrated high performance and yielded excellent results compared to the current methods in the literature, with a total accuracy of 99.74% and 98.85% for binary classification (COVID-19 vs. No COVID-19) and multi-class classification (COVID-19 vs. Normal vs. Pneumonia), respectively.

scholarly journals An Effective Convolutional Neural Network Model for the Early Detection of COVID-19 Using Chest X-ray Images

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (21) ◽  
pp. 10301
Author(s):  
Muhammad Shoaib Farooq ◽  
Attique Ur Rehman ◽  
Muhammad Idrees ◽  
Muhammad Ahsan Raza ◽  
Jehad Ali ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Convolutional Neural Network ◽  
Real World ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Binary Classification ◽  
X Rays ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Chest X Ray

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.

scholarly journals Automatic detection of COVID-19 in chest radiographs using serially concatenated deep and handcrafted features

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
S. Rajesh Kannan ◽  
J. Sivakumar ◽  
P. Ezhilarasi
Keyword(s):  
Vital Role ◽  
Detection Methods ◽  
Occurrence Rate ◽  
Detection Accuracy ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Contagious Diseases ◽  
Disease Occurrence ◽  
Chest X Ray ◽  
Feature Based ◽  
Serially Concatenated

Since the infectious disease occurrence rate in the human community is gradually rising due to varied reasons, appropriate diagnosis and treatments are essential to control its spread. The recently discovered COVID-19 is one of the contagious diseases, which infected numerous people globally. This contagious disease is arrested by several diagnoses and handling actions. Medical image-supported diagnosis of COVID-19 infection is an approved clinical practice. This research aims to develop a new Deep Learning Method (DLM) to detect the COVID-19 infection using the chest X-ray. The proposed work implemented two methods namely, detection of COVID-19 infection using (i) a Firefly Algorithm (FA) optimized deep-features and (ii) the combined deep and machine features optimized with FA. In this work, a 5-fold cross-validation method is engaged to train and test detection methods. The performance of this system is analyzed individually resulting in the confirmation that the deep feature-based technique helps to achieve a detection accuracy of >  92% with SVM-RBF classifier and combining deep and machine features achieves >  96% accuracy with Fine KNN classifier. In the future, this technique may have potential to play a vital role in testing and validating the X-ray images collected from patients suffering from the infection diseases.

scholarly journals COVID-19 detection and disease progression visualization: Deep learning on chest X-rays for classification and coarse localization

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tahmina Zebin ◽  
Shahadate Rezvy ◽  
Wei Pang
Keyword(s):  
Disease Progression ◽  
Detection Accuracy ◽  
X Rays ◽  
Automated Classification ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Feature Extractor ◽  
Chest X Ray ◽  
Activation Mapping ◽  
Activation Map

Abstract Chest X-rays are playing an important role in the testing and diagnosis of COVID-19 disease in the recent pandemic. However, due to the limited amount of labelled medical images, automated classification of these images for positive and negative cases remains the biggest challenge in their reliable use in diagnosis and disease progression. We applied and implemented a transfer learning pipeline for classifying COVID-19 chest X-ray images from two publicly available chest X-ray datasets {https://github.com/ieee8023/covid-chestxray-dataset},{https://www.kaggle.com/paultimothymooney/chest-xray-pneumonia}}. The classifier effectively distinguishes inflammation in lungs due to COVID-19 and pneumonia (viral and bacterial) from the ones with no infection (normal). We have used multiple pre-trained convolutional backbones as the feature extractor and achieved an overall detection accuracy of 91.2% , 95.3%, 96.7% for the VGG16, ResNet50 and EfficientNetB0 backbones respectively. Additionally, we trained a generative adversarial framework (a cycleGAN) to generate and augment the minority COVID-19 class in our approach. For visual explanations and interpretation purposes, we visualized the regions of input that are important for predictions and a gradient class activation mapping (Grad-CAM) technique is used in the pipeline to produce a coarse localization map of the highlighted regions in the image. This activation map can be used to monitor affected lung regions during disease progression and severity stages.

scholarly journals COVIDPEN: A Novel COVID-19 Detection Model using Chest X-Rays and CT Scans

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amit Kumar Jaiswal ◽  
Prayag Tiwari ◽  
Vipin Kumar Rathi ◽  
Jia Qian ◽  
Hari Mohan Pandey ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
False Negative ◽  
Healthcare Providers ◽  
False Negative Rate ◽  
X Rays ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Detection Model ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
High False Negative Rate ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Chest X Ray

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.

scholarly journals Distance restricted maximal covering model for pharmacy duty scheduling problem

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 208-215
Author(s):  
Nuşin Uncu ◽  
Berna Bulğurcu ◽  
Fatih Kılıç
Keyword(s):  
Programming Model ◽  
Health Care Systems ◽  
Mixed Integer ◽  
Scheduling Problem ◽  
Weighted Distance ◽  
Maximal Covering ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Care Systems ◽  
Covering Model ◽  
The City

Pharmacies are considered as an integral part of health care systems for supplying medicine to patients. In order to access  medicine with ease, pharmacies locations in the context of distance and demand are important for patients. In the case of a few numbers of pharmacies may be on duty at nights or during holidays, pharmacies duty scheduling problem occur and can be associated with location models. In contrast to widely used p-median model which aims to minimize the demand-weighted distance, we maximize the demand covered over the distance between the patients and the pharmacies on duty. Main contribution of the proposed model is the restriction constraint for the distance between pharmacies on duty in order to ensure fairness in an organizational view of point. We propose a distance restricted maximal covering location model (DR-MCLM) in this study. This mathematical model is a mixed integer linear programming model and solved by Lingo optimization software. The distances between the pharmacies and the sites are obtained using Geographic Information Systems (GIS). The model is applied for the case in Adana, one of the biggest cities in Turkey. The results are given on the maps of the city, including the pharmacies on duty and their assignments to sites in each day of the period.

scholarly journals Using a Deep Learning Model to Explore the Impact of Clinical Data on COVID-19 Diagnosis Using Chest X-ray

Sensors ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 669
Author(s):  
Irfan Ullah Khan ◽  
Nida Aslam ◽  
Talha Anwar ◽  
Hind S. Alsaif ◽  
Sara Mhd. Bachar Chrouf ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Deep Learning ◽  
Clinical Data ◽  
Disease Diagnosis ◽  
University Hospital ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Clinical Patient ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Chest X Ray ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Deep Learning Model

The coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) is disrupting the entire world; its rapid global spread threatens to affect millions of people. Accurate and timely diagnosis of COVID-19 is essential to control the spread and alleviate risk. Due to the promising results achieved by integrating machine learning (ML), particularly deep learning (DL), in automating the multiple disease diagnosis process. In the current study, a model based on deep learning was proposed for the automated diagnosis of COVID-19 using chest X-ray images (CXR) and clinical data of the patient. The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of integrating clinical patient data with the CXR for automated COVID-19 diagnosis. The proposed model used data collected from King Fahad University Hospital, Dammam, KSA, which consists of 270 patient records. The experiments were carried out first with clinical data, second with the CXR, and finally with clinical data and CXR. The fusion technique was used to combine the clinical features and features extracted from images. The study found that integrating clinical data with the CXR improves diagnostic accuracy. Using the clinical data and the CXR, the model achieved an accuracy of 0.970, a recall of 0.986, a precision of 0.978, and an F-score of 0.982. Further validation was performed by comparing the performance of the proposed system with the diagnosis of an expert. Additionally, the results have shown that the proposed system can be used as a tool that can help the doctors in COVID-19 diagnosis.

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