Lung Infection Segmentation for COVID-19 Pneumonia Based on a Cascade Convolutional Network from CT Images.

The COVID-19 pandemic is a global, national, and local public health concern which has caused a significant outbreak in all countries and regions for both males and females around the world. Automated detection of lung infections and their boundaries from medical images offers a great potential to a...

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Published in:BioMed Research International pp. 1 - 17
Main Authors: Ranjbarzadeh, Ramin, Jafarzadeh Ghoushchi, Saeid, Bendechache, Malika, Amirabadi, Amir, Ab Rahman, Mohd Nizam, Baseri Saadi, Soroush, Aghamohammadi, Amirhossein, Kooshki Forooshani, Mersedeh
Format: diagnostic images equations & formulas research tables/charts Journal Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell 4/16/2021
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          Ranjbarzadeh, Ramin
          Jafarzadeh Ghoushchi, Saeid
          Bendechache, Malika
          Amirabadi, Amir
          Ab Rahman, Mohd Nizam
          Baseri Saadi, Soroush
          Aghamohammadi, Amirhossein
          Kooshki Forooshani, Mersedeh
        affil: Department of Telecommunications Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Guilan, Rasht, Iran
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          COVID-19 Radiography
          Lung Radiography
          Infection Diagnosis
          Tomography, X-Ray Computed Methods
          Image Interpretation, Computer Assisted
          Predictive Value of Tests
          Human
          Neural Networks (Computer)
          COVID-19 Classification
          Sensitivity and Specificity
          Descriptive Statistics
      ab: The COVID-19 pandemic is a global, national, and local public health concern which has caused a significant outbreak in all countries and regions for both males and females around the world. Automated detection of lung infections and their boundaries from medical images offers a great potential to augment the patient treatment healthcare strategies for tackling COVID-19 and its impacts. Detecting this disease from lung CT scan images is perhaps one of the fastest ways to diagnose patients. However, finding the presence of infected tissues and segment them from CT slices faces numerous challenges, including similar adjacent tissues, vague boundary, and erratic infections. To eliminate these obstacles, we propose a two-route convolutional neural network (CNN) by extracting global and local features for detecting and classifying COVID-19 infection from CT images. Each pixel from the image is classified into the normal and infected tissues. For improving the classification accuracy, we used two different strategies including fuzzy c -means clustering and local directional pattern (LDN) encoding methods to represent the input image differently. This allows us to find more complex pattern from the image. To overcome the overfitting problems due to small samples, an augmentation approach is utilized. The results demonstrated that the proposed framework achieved precision 96%, recall 97%, F score, average surface distance (ASD) of 2.8 ± 0.3 mm, and volume overlap error (VOE) of 5.6 ± 1.2 %.
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