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With the increasing spread of COVID-19, it is important to systematically test more and more people. The current strategy for test-kit allocation is mostly rule-based, focusing on individuals having (a) symptoms for COVID-19, (b) travel…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Arpita Biswas , Shruthi Bannur , Prateek Jain , Srujana Merugu

How to fast and accurately assess the severity level of COVID-19 is an essential problem, when millions of people are suffering from the pandemic around the world. Currently, the chest CT is regarded as a popular and informative imaging…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-09 Zekun Li , Wei Zhao , Feng Shi , Lei Qi , Xingzhi Xie , Ying Wei , Zhongxiang Ding , Yang Gao , Shangjie Wu , Jun Liu , Yinghuan Shi , Dinggang Shen

Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, millions of people have succumbed to this deadly virus. Many attempts have been made to devise an automated method of testing that could detect the virus. Various researchers around the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-11 Samyak Prajapati , Japman Singh Monga , Shaanya Singh , Amrit Raj , Yuvraj Singh Champawat , Chandra Prakash

The COVID-19 epidemic has become a major safety and health threat worldwide. Imaging diagnosis is one of the most effective ways to screen COVID-19. This project utilizes several open-source or public datasets to present an open-source…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-21 Yi Zhong

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

After more than two years since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the pressure of this crisis continues to devastate globally. The use of chest X-ray (CXR) imaging as a complementary screening strategy to RT-PCR testing is not only…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-22 Maya Pavlova , Tia Tuinstra , Hossein Aboutalebi , Andy Zhao , Hayden Gunraj , Alexander Wong

Background: The worldwide surge in coronavirus cases has led to the COVID-19 testing demand surge. Rapid, accurate, and cost-effective COVID-19 screening tests working at a population level are in imperative demand globally. Methods: Based…

We propose a novel testing and containment strategy in order to contain the spread of SARS-CoV2 while permitting large parts of the population to resume social and economic activity. Our approach recognises the fact that testing capacities…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2020-04-29 Jakob Jonnerby , Philip Lazos , Edwin Lock , Francisco Marmolejo-Cossío , C. Bronk Ramsey , Meghana Shukla , Divya Sridhar

Group testing is a screening strategy that involves dividing a population into several disjointed groups of subjects. In its simplest implementation, each group is tested with a single test in the first phase, while in the second phase only…

COVID-19 quickly became a global pandemic after only four months of its first detection. It is crucial to detect this disease as soon as possible to decrease its spread. The use of chest X-ray (CXR) images became an effective screening…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-10 Fabricio Breve

Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) is caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 virus (SARS-CoV-2). The virus transmits rapidly; it has a basic reproductive number R of 2.2-2.7. In March 2020, the World Health Organization…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-02 Vishal Sharma , Curtis Dyreson

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has emerged the need for computer-aided diagnosis with automatic, accurate, and fast algorithms. Recent studies have applied Machine Learning algorithms for COVID-19 diagnosis over chest X-ray (CXR)…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-27 Aysen Degerli , Mete Ahishali , Serkan Kiranyaz , Muhammad E. H. Chowdhury , Moncef Gabbouj

Purpose: Considering several patients screened due to COVID-19 pandemic, computer-aided detection has strong potential in assisting clinical workflow efficiency and reducing the incidence of infections among radiologists and healthcare…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-20 Guang Li , Ren Togo , Takahiro Ogawa , Miki Haseyama

We analyze the effect of using a screening CT-scan for evaluation of potential COVID-19 infections in order to isolate and perform contact tracing based upon a viral pneumonia diagnosis. RT-PCR is then used for continued isolation based…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2020-06-04 Chen Shen , Ron Mark , Nolan J. Kagetsu , Anton S. Becker , Yaneer Bar-Yam

The COVID-19 pandemic is causing a major outbreak in more than 150 countries around the world, having a severe impact on the health and life of many people globally. One of the crucial step in fighting COVID-19 is the ability to detect the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Shervin Minaee , Rahele Kafieh , Milan Sonka , Shakib Yazdani , Ghazaleh Jamalipour Soufi

The corona virus is already spread around the world in many countries, and it has taken many lives. Furthermore, the world health organization (WHO) has announced that COVID-19 has reached the global epidemic stage. Early and reliable…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-29 Abdolkarim Saeedi , Maryam Saeedi , Arash Maghsoudi

Current standard protocols used in the clinic for diagnosing COVID-19 include molecular or antigen tests, generally complemented by a plain chest X-Ray. The combined analysis aims to reduce the significant number of false negatives of these…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-01 Julian D. Arias-Londoño , Jorge A. Gomez-Garcia , Laureano Moro-Velazquez , Juan I. Godino-Llorente

The COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) pandemic affected more than 186 million people with over 4 million deaths worldwide by June 2021. The magnitude of which has strained global healthcare systems. Chest Computed Tomography (CT) scans…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-28 Aryan Verma , Sagar B. Amin , Muhammad Naeem , Monjoy Saha

Corona virus or COVID-19 is a pandemic illness, which has influenced more than million of causalities worldwide and infected a few large number of individuals .Innovative instrument empowering quick screening of the COVID-19 contamination…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-01 Dinesh J , Mohammed Rhithick A

The COVID-19 pandemic has had devastating effects on the well-being of the global population. The pandemic has been so prominent partly due to the high infection rate of the virus and its variants. In response, one of the most effective…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-06 Jianxing Zhang , Pengcheng Xi , Ashkan Ebadi , Hilda Azimi , Stephane Tremblay , Alexander Wong