Covid-19 Detection using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks from X-Ray Images

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-143
Author(s):  
Abdullah Ajmal ◽  
Sundas Ibrar ◽  
Wakeel Ahmad ◽  
Syed Muhammad Adnan Shah

Abstract— The Novel Coronavirus generally, knows as COVID-19 which first appeared in Wuhan city of China in December 2019, spread quickly around the world and became a pandemic. It has caused an overwhelming effect on daily lives, Public health, and the global economy. Many people have been affected and have died. It is critical to control and prevent the spread of COVID-19 disease by applying quick alternative diagnostic techniques. COVID-19 cases are rising day by day around the world, the on-time diagnosis of COVID-19 patients is an increasingly long and difficult process. COVID-19 patient test kits are costly and not available for every individual in poor countries. For this purpose, screening patients with the established techniques like Chest X-ray images seems to be an effective method. This study used a deep learning data augmentation on a publicly available data set and train advanced CNN models on it. The proposed model was tested using a state-of-the-art evaluation measures and obtained better results. Our model, the COVID-19 images is available at (https://github.com/ieee8023/covid-chestxray-dataset) and for Non-COVID-19 images is available at (https://www.kaggle.com/paultimothymooney/chest-xray-pneumonia). The maximum accuracy achieved in the validation was 96.67%. Our model of COVID-19 detection achieved an average F measure of 98%, and an Area Under Curve (AUC) of 99%. The results demonstrate that deep learning proved to be an effective and easily deployable approach for COVID-19 detection.

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2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (9) ◽  
pp. 419 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irfan Ullah Khan ◽  
Nida Aslam

The emergence and outbreak of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) had a devasting effect on global health, the economy, and individuals’ daily lives. Timely diagnosis of COVID-19 is a crucial task, as it reduces the risk of pandemic spread, and early treatment will save patients’ life. Due to the time-consuming, complex nature, and high false-negative rate of the gold-standard RT-PCR test used for the diagnosis of COVID-19, the need for an additional diagnosis method has increased. Studies have proved the significance of X-ray images for the diagnosis of COVID-19. The dissemination of deep-learning techniques on X-ray images can automate the diagnosis process and serve as an assistive tool for radiologists. In this study, we used four deep-learning models—DenseNet121, ResNet50, VGG16, and VGG19—using the transfer-learning concept for the diagnosis of X-ray images as COVID-19 or normal. In the proposed study, VGG16 and VGG19 outperformed the other two deep-learning models. The study achieved an overall classification accuracy of 99.3%.


Corona virus 2019 (COVID-2019), has first appeared in Wuhan, China in December 2019, spread around the world rapidly causing thousands of fatalities. It is caused a devastating result in our daily lives, public health, and also the global economy. It is important to sight the positive cases as early as possible therefore forestall any unfoldment of this epidemic and to quickly treat affected patients. The necessity for auxiliary diagnostic tools has increased as there aren't any accurate automated toolkits available. Recent findings obtained using radiology imaging techniques suggest that such images contain salient information about the COVID-19 virus. Coupling deep learning techniques with radiological imaging may end up within the accurate detection of this disease. This assistance will help to beat the matter of an absence of specialized physicians in the remote villages.


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.


F1000Research ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 256
Author(s):  
Thierry Pécot ◽  
Alexander Alekseyenko ◽  
Kristin Wallace

Deep learning has revolutionized the automatic processing of images. While deep convolutional neural networks have demonstrated astonishing segmentation results for many biological objects acquired with microscopy, this technology's good performance relies on large training datasets. In this paper, we present a strategy to minimize the amount of time spent in manually annotating images for segmentation. It involves using an efficient and open source annotation tool, the artificial increase of the training data set with data augmentation, the creation of an artificial data set with a conditional generative adversarial network and the combination of semantic and instance segmentations. We evaluate the impact of each of these approaches for the segmentation of nuclei in 2D widefield images of human precancerous polyp biopsies in order to define an optimal strategy.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hao Quan ◽  
Xiaosong Xu ◽  
Tingting Zheng ◽  
Zhi Li ◽  
Mingfang Zhao ◽  
...  

Abstract Objective: A deep learning framework for detecting COVID-19 is developed, and a small amount of chest X-ray data is used to accurately screen COVID-19.Methods: In this paper, we propose a deep learning framework that integrates convolution neural network and capsule network. DenseNet and CapsNet fusion are used to give full play to their respective advantages, reduce the dependence of convolution neural network on a large amount of data, and can quickly and accurately distinguish COVID-19 from Non-COVID-19 through chest X-ray imaging.Results: A total of 1472 chest X-ray COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 images are used, this method can achieve an accuracy of 99.32% and a precision of 100%, with 98.55% sensitivity and 100% specificity.Conclusion: These results show that the deep fusion neural network DenseCapsNet has good performance in novel coronavirus pneumonia X-ray detection. We also prove through experiments that the detection performance of DenseCapsNet is not affected fundamentally by a lack of data augmentation and pre-training.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olaide N. Oyelade ◽  
Absalom E. Ezugwu

AbstractThe novel Coronavirus, also known as Covid19, is a pandemic that has weighed heavily on the socio-economic affairs of the world. Although researches into the production of relevant vaccine are being advanced, there is, however, a need for a computational solution to mediate the process of aiding quick detection of the disease. Different computational solutions comprised of natural language processing, knowledge engineering and deep learning have been adopted for this task. However, deep learning solutions have shown interesting performance compared to other methods. This paper therefore aims to advance the application deep learning technique to the problem of characterization and detection of novel coronavirus. The approach adopted in this study proposes a convolutional neural network (CNN) model which is further enhanced using the technique of data augmentation. The motive for the enhancement of the CNN model through the latter technique is to investigate the possibility of further improving the performances of deep learning models in detection of coronavirus. The proposed model is then applied to the COVID-19 X-ray dataset in this study which is the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Chest X-Ray dataset obtained from Kaggle for the purpose of promoting early detection and screening of coronavirus disease. Results obtained showed that our approach achieved a performance of 100% accuracy, recall/precision of 0.85, F-measure of 0.9, and specificity of 1.0. The proposed CNN model and data augmentation solution may be adopted in pre-screening suspected cases of Covid19 to provide support to the use of the well-known RT-PCR testing.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Ebrahim Mohammed Senan ◽  
Ali Alzahrani ◽  
Mohammed Y. Alzahrani ◽  
Nizar Alsharif ◽  
Theyazn H. H. Aldhyani

In March 2020, the World Health Organization announced the COVID-19 pandemic, its dangers, and its rapid spread throughout the world. In March 2021, the second wave of the pandemic began with a new strain of COVID-19, which was more dangerous for some countries, including India, recording 400,000 new cases daily and more than 4,000 deaths per day. This pandemic has overloaded the medical sector, especially radiology. Deep-learning techniques have been used to reduce the burden on hospitals and assist physicians for accurate diagnoses. In our study, two models of deep learning, ResNet-50 and AlexNet, were introduced to diagnose X-ray datasets collected from many sources. Each network diagnosed a multiclass (four classes) and a two-class dataset. The images were processed to remove noise, and a data augmentation technique was applied to the minority classes to create a balance between the classes. The features extracted by convolutional neural network (CNN) models were combined with traditional Gray-level Cooccurrence Matrix (GLCM) and Local Binary Pattern (LBP) algorithms in a 1-D vector of each image, which produced more representative features for each disease. Network parameters were tuned for optimum performance. The ResNet-50 network reached accuracy, sensitivity, specificity, and Area Under the Curve (AUC) of 95%, 94.5%, 98%, and 97.10%, respectively, with the multiclasses (COVID-19, viral pneumonia, lung opacity, and normal), while it reached accuracy, sensitivity, specificity, and AUC of 99%, 98%, 98%, and 97.51%, respectively, with the binary classes (COVID-19 and normal).


2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 299-305 ◽  
Author(s):  
Riaz Ahmad ◽  
Saeeda Naz ◽  
Muhammad Afzal ◽  
Sheikh Rashid ◽  
Marcus Liwicki ◽  
...  

This paper presents a deep learning benchmark on a complex dataset known as KFUPM Handwritten Arabic TexT (KHATT). The KHATT data-set consists of complex patterns of handwritten Arabic text-lines. This paper contributes mainly in three aspects i.e., (1) pre-processing, (2) deep learning based approach, and (3) data-augmentation. The pre-processing step includes pruning of white extra spaces plus de-skewing the skewed text-lines. We deploy a deep learning approach based on Multi-Dimensional Long Short-Term Memory (MDLSTM) networks and Connectionist Temporal Classification (CTC). The MDLSTM has the advantage of scanning the Arabic text-lines in all directions (horizontal and vertical) to cover dots, diacritics, strokes and fine inflammation. The data-augmentation with a deep learning approach proves to achieve better and promising improvement in results by gaining 80.02% Character Recognition (CR) over 75.08% as baseline.


2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
BinBin Zhang ◽  
Fumin Zhang ◽  
Xinghua Qu

Purpose Laser-based measurement techniques offer various advantages over conventional measurement techniques, such as no-destructive, no-contact, fast and long measuring distance. In cooperative laser ranging systems, it’s crucial to extract center coordinates of retroreflectors to accomplish automatic measurement. To solve this problem, this paper aims to propose a novel method. Design/methodology/approach We propose a method using Mask RCNN (Region Convolutional Neural Network), with ResNet101 (Residual Network 101) and FPN (Feature Pyramid Network) as the backbone, to localize retroreflectors, realizing automatic recognition in different backgrounds. Compared with two other deep learning algorithms, experiments show that the recognition rate of Mask RCNN is better especially for small-scale targets. Based on this, an ellipse detection algorithm is introduced to obtain the ellipses of retroreflectors from recognized target areas. The center coordinates of retroreflectors in the camera coordinate system are obtained by using a mathematics method. Findings To verify the accuracy of this method, an experiment was carried out: the distance between two retroreflectors with a known distance of 1,000.109 mm was measured, with 2.596 mm root-mean-squar error, meeting the requirements of the coarse location of retroreflectors. Research limitations/implications The research limitations/implications are as follows: (i) As the data set only has 200 pictures, although we have used some data augmentation methods such as rotating, mirroring and cropping, there is still room for improvement in the generalization ability of detection. (ii) The ellipse detection algorithm needs to work in relatively dark conditions, as the retroreflector is made of stainless steel, which easily reflects light. Originality/value The originality/value of the article lies in being able to obtain center coordinates of multiple retroreflectors automatically even in a cluttered background; being able to recognize retroreflectors with different sizes, especially for small targets; meeting the recognition requirement of multiple targets in a large field of view and obtaining 3 D centers of targets by monocular model-based vision.


2020 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bapi Gorain ◽  
Hira Choudhury ◽  
Nagashekhara Molugulu ◽  
Rajani B. Athawale ◽  
Prashant Kesharwani

Sudden outbreak of a new pathogen in numbers of pneumonic patients in Wuhan province during December 2019 has threatened the world population within a short period of its occurrence. This respiratory tract–isolated pathogen was initially named as novel coronavirus 2019 (nCoV-2019), but later termed as SARS-CoV-2. The rapid spreading of this infectious disease received the label of pandemic by the World Health Organization within 4 months of its occurrence, which still seeks continuous attention of the researchers to prevent the spread and for cure of the infected patients. The propagation of the disease has been recorded in 215 countries, with more than 25.5 million cases and a death toll of more than 0.85 million. Several measures are taken to control the disease transmission, and researchers are actively engaged in finding suitable therapeutics to effectively control the disease to minimize the mortality and morbidity rates. Several existing potential candidates were explored in the prevention and treatment of worsening condition of COVID-19 patients; however, none of the formulation has been approved for the treatment but used under medical supervision. In this article, a focus has been made to highlight on current epidemiology on the COVID-19 infection, clinical features, diagnosis, and transmission, with special emphasis on treatment measures of the disease at different stages of clinical research and the global economic influence due to this pandemic situation. Progress in the development on vaccine against COVID-19 has also been explored as important measures to immunize people. Moreover, this article is expected to provide information to the researchers, who are constantly combating in the management against this outbreak.


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