Deep learning representations to support COVID-19 diagnosis on CT slices.

Introduction: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has become a significant public health problem worldwide. In this context, CT-scan automatic analysis has emerged as a COVID-19 complementary diagnosis tool allowing for radiological finding characterization, patient categorization, and disease f...

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Published in:Biomédica: Revista del Instituto Nacional de Salud Vol. 42; no. 1; pp. 170 - 184
Main Authors: Ruano, Josué, Arcila, John, Romo-Bucheli, David, Vargas, Carlos, Rodríguez, Jefferson, Mendoza, Óscar, Plazas, Miguel, Bautista, Lola, Villamizar, Jorge, Pedraza, Gabriel, Moreno, Alejandra, Valenzuela, Diana, Vásquez, Lina, Valenzuela-Santos, Carolina, Camacho, Paúl, Mantilla, Daniel, Martínez, Fabio
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Published: Instituto Nacional de Salud of Colombia mar2022
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          Ruano, Josué
          Arcila, John
          Romo-Bucheli, David
          Vargas, Carlos
          Rodríguez, Jefferson
          Mendoza, Óscar
          Plazas, Miguel
          Bautista, Lola
          Villamizar, Jorge
          Pedraza, Gabriel
          Moreno, Alejandra
          Valenzuela, Diana
          Vásquez, Lina
          Valenzuela-Santos, Carolina
          Camacho, Paúl
          Mantilla, Daniel
          Martínez, Fabio
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          BIVL2ab Biomedical Imaging, Vision and Learning Laboratory, Escuela de Ingeniería de Sistemas e Informática, Universidad Industrial de Santander, Bucaramanga, Colombia
          Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad de Los Andes, Mérida, Venezuela
          Clínica FOSCAL, Fundación Oftalmológica de Santander, Bucaramanga, Colombia
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        COVID-19 testing
        Deep learning
        COVID-19
        Support vector machines
        COVID-19 pandemic
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          COVID-19 testing
          Deep learning
          COVID-19
          Support vector machines
          COVID-19 pandemic
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        Coronavirus infections/diagnosis
        deep learning
        tomography
        X-ray computed
        aprendizaje profundo
        Coronavirus infections/diagnosis
        deep learning
        infecciones por coronavirus/diagnóstico
        tomografía computarizada por rayos X
        tomography
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        Introduction: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has become a significant public health problem worldwide. In this context, CT-scan automatic analysis has emerged as a COVID-19 complementary diagnosis tool allowing for radiological finding characterization, patient categorization, and disease follow-up. However, this analysis depends on the radiologist's expertise, which may result in subjective evaluations. Objective: To explore deep learning representations, trained from thoracic CT-slices, to automatically distinguish COVID-19 disease from control samples. Materials and methods: Two datasets were used: SARS-CoV-2 CT Scan (Set-1) and FOSCAL clinic's dataset (Set-2). The deep representations took advantage of supervised learning models previously trained on the natural image domain, which were adjusted following a transfer learning scheme. The deep classification was carried out: (a) via an end-to-end deep learning approach and (b) via random forest and support vector machine classifiers by feeding the deep representation embedding vectors into these classifiers. Results: The end-to-end classification achieved an average accuracy of 92.33% (89.70% precision) for Set-1 and 96.99% (96.62% precision) for Set-2. The deep feature embedding with a support vector machine achieved an average accuracy of 91.40% (95.77% precision) and 96.00% (94.74% precision) for Set-1 and Set-2, respectively. Conclusion: Deep representations have achieved outstanding performance in the identification of COVID-19 cases on CT scans demonstrating good characterization of the COVID-19 radiological patterns. These representations could potentially support the COVID-19 diagnosis in clinical settings.
        Introducción. La enfermedad por coronavirus (COVID-19) es actualmente el principal problema de salud pública en el mundo. En este contexto, el análisis automático de tomografías computarizadas (TC) surge como una herramienta diagnóstica complementaria que permite caracterizar hallazgos radiológicos, y categorizar y hacer el seguimiento de pacientes con COVID-19. Sin embargo, este análisis depende de la experiencia de los radiólogos, por lo que las valoraciones pueden ser subjetivas. Objetivo. Explorar representaciones de aprendizaje profundo entrenadas con cortes de TC torácica para diferenciar automáticamente entre los casos de COVID-19 y personas no infectadas. Materiales y métodos. Se usaron dos conjuntos de datos de TC: de SARS-CoV-2 CT (conjunto 1) y de la clínica FOSCAL (conjunto 2). Los modelos de aprendizaje supervisados y previamente entrenados en imágenes naturales, se ajustaron usando aprendizaje por transferencia. La clasificación se llevó a cabo mediante aprendizaje de extremo a extremo y clasificadores tales como los árboles de decisiones y las máquinas de soporte vectorial, alimentados por la representación profunda previamente aprendida. Resultados. El enfoque de extremo a extremo alcanzó una exactitud promedio de 92,33 % (89,70 % de precisión) para el conjunto 1 y de 96,99 % (96,62 % de precisión) para el conjunto-2. La máquina de soporte vectorial alcanzó una exactitud promedio de 91,40 % (precisión del 95,77 %) para el conjunto-1 y del 96,00 % (precisión del 94,74 %) para el conjunto 2. Conclusión. Las representaciones profundas lograron resultados sobresalientes al caracterizar patrones radiológicos usados en la detección de casos de COVID-19 a partir de estudios de TC y demostraron ser una potencial herramienta de apoyo del diagnóstico.
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