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Coronavirus has caused hundreds of thousands of deaths. Fatalities could decrease if every patient could get suitable treatment by the healthcare system. Machine learning, especially computer vision methods based on deep learning, can help…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-27 Parham Yazdekhasty , Ali Zindari , Zahra Nabizadeh-ShahreBabak , Pejman Khadivi , Nader Karimi , Shadrokh Samavi

The novel corona-virus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has caused a major outbreak in more than 200 countries around the world, leading to a severe impact on the health and life of many people globally. As of mid-July 2020, more than 12 million…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-10 Narges Saeedizadeh , Shervin Minaee , Rahele Kafieh , Shakib Yazdani , Milan Sonka

Understanding chest CT imaging of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) will help detect infections early and assess the disease progression. Especially, automated severity assessment of COVID-19 in CT images plays an essential role in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-26 Kelei He , Wei Zhao , Xingzhi Xie , Wen Ji , Mingxia Liu , Zhenyu Tang , Feng Shi , Yang Gao , Jun Liu , Junfeng Zhang , Dinggang Shen

We present a novel deep learning approach to categorical segmentation of lung CTs of COVID-19 patients. Specifically, we partition the scans into healthy lung tissues, non-lung regions, and two different, yet visually similar, pathological…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-07 Tal Ben-Haim , Ron Moshe Sofer , Gal Ben-Arie , Ilan Shelef , Tammy Riklin-Raviv

CT imaging is crucial for diagnosis, assessment and staging COVID-19 infection. Follow-up scans every 3-5 days are often recommended for disease progression. It has been reported that bilateral and peripheral ground glass opacification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Fei Shan , Yaozong Gao , Jun Wang , Weiya Shi , Nannan Shi , Miaofei Han , Zhong Xue , Dinggang Shen , Yuxin Shi

Scarcity of annotated images hampers the building of automated solution for reliable COVID-19 diagnosis and evaluation from CT. To alleviate the burden of data annotation, we herein present a label-free approach for segmenting COVID-19…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-15 Qingsong Yao , Li Xiao , Peihang Liu , S. Kevin Zhou

The purpose of this study was to develop a fully-automated segmentation algorithm, robust to various density enhancing lung abnormalities, to facilitate rapid quantitative analysis of computed tomography images. A polymorphic training…

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has been the main agenda of the whole world, since it came into sight in December 2019 as it has significantly affected the world economy and healthcare system. Given the effects of COVID-19 on pulmonary…

The pandemic of novel SARS-CoV-2 also known as COVID-19 has been spreading worldwide, causing rampant loss of lives. Medical imaging such as CT, X-ray, etc., plays a significant role in diagnosing the patients by presenting the visual…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-29 Narinder Singh Punn , Sonali Agarwal

The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has resulted in a pandemic crippling the a breadth of services critical to daily life. Segmentation of lung infections in computerized tomography (CT) slices could be be used to improve diagnosis and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Aritra Chowdhury , Alberto Santamaria-Pang , James R. Kubricht , Jianwei Qiu , Peter Tu

Utilizing computed tomography (CT) images to quickly estimate the severity of cases with COVID-19 is one of the most straightforward and efficacious methods. Two tasks were studied in this present paper. One was to segment the mask of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-11 Wei Wu , Yu Shi , Xukun Li , Yukun Zhou , Peng Du , Shuangzhi Lv , Tingbo Liang , Jifang Sheng

In December 2019, the global pandemic COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, affected human life and the worldwide economy. Therefore, an efficient diagnostic system is required to control its spread. However, the automatic diagnostic system poses…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-27 Saddam Hussain Khan

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a Public Health Emergency of International Concern infecting more than 40 million people across 188 countries and territories. Chest computed tomography (CT) imaging technique benefits from its high…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-02 Yifan Jiang , Han Chen , David K. Han , Hanseok Ko

Automated delineation of COVID-19 lesions from lung CT scans aids the diagnosis and prognosis for patients. The asymmetric shapes and positioning of the infected regions make the task extremely difficult. Capturing information at multiple…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-28 Pallabi Dutta , Sushmita Mitra

The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has led to a devastating effect on the global public health. Computed Tomography (CT) is an effective tool in the screening of COVID-19. It is of great importance to rapidly and accurately segment…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-09 Tongxue Zhou , Stéphane Canu , Su Ruan

Automatic lung lesions segmentation of chest CT scans is considered a pivotal stage towards accurate diagnosis and severity measurement of COVID-19. Traditional U-shaped encoder-decoder architecture and its variants suffer from diminutions…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-04 Tanvir Mahmud , Md Awsafur Rahman , Shaikh Anowarul Fattah , Sun-Yuan Kung

The novel Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is a highly contagious virus and has spread all over the world, posing an extremely serious threat to all countries. Automatic lung infection segmentation from computed tomography (CT) plays an…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-29 Yichi Zhang , Qingcheng Liao , Lin Yuan , He Zhu , Jiezhen Xing , Jicong Zhang

An early effective screening and grading of COVID-19 has become imperative towards optimizing the limited available resources of the medical facilities. An automated segmentation of the infected volumes in lung CT is expected to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-20 Pallabi Dutta , Sushmita Mitra

Due to the irregular shapes,various sizes and indistinguishable boundaries between the normal and infected tissues, it is still a challenging task to accurately segment the infected lesions of COVID-19 on CT images. In this paper, a novel…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-21 Haigen Hu , Leizhao Shen , Qiu Guan , Xiaoxin Li , Qianwei Zhou , Su Ruan

Since 2019, the global COVID-19 outbreak has emerged as a crucial focus in healthcare research. Although RT-PCR stands as the primary method for COVID-19 detection, its extended detection time poses a significant challenge. Consequently,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-19 Anay Panja , Somenath Kuiry , Alaka Das , Mita Nasipuri , Nibaran Das