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Chest X-rays are the most commonly performed diagnostic examination to detect cardiopulmonary abnormalities. However, the presence of bony structures such as ribs and clavicles can obscure subtle abnormalities, resulting in diagnostic…

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Chest X-rays (CXRs) are commonly utilized as a low-dose modality for lung screening. Nonetheless, the efficacy of CXRs is somewhat impeded, given that approximately 75% of the lung area overlaps with bone, which in turn hampers the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-01 Zhanghao Chen , Yifei Sun , Wenjian Qin , Ruiquan Ge , Cheng Pan , Wenming Deng , Zhou Liu , Wenwen Min , Ahmed Elazab , Xiang Wan , Changmiao Wang

Lung diseases represent a significant global health challenge, with Chest X-Ray (CXR) being a key diagnostic tool due to its accessibility and affordability. Nonetheless, the detection of pulmonary lesions is often hindered by overlapping…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-10 Yifei Sun , Zhanghao Chen , Hao Zheng , Wenming Deng , Jin Liu , Wenwen Min , Ahmed Elazab , Xiang Wan , Changmiao Wang , Ruiquan Ge

Suppression of thoracic bone shadows on chest X-rays (CXRs) has been indicated to improve the diagnosis of pulmonary disease. Previous approaches can be categorized as unsupervised physical and supervised deep learning models. Nevertheless,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-21 Di Xu , Qifan Xu , Kevin Nhieu , Dan Ruan , Ke Sheng

Accurate and rapid detection of COVID-19 pneumonia is crucial for optimal patient treatment. Chest X-Ray (CXR) is the first line imaging test for COVID-19 pneumonia diagnosis as it is fast, cheap and easily accessible. Inspired by the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-20 Xin Zhang , Liangxiu Han , Tam Sobeih , Lianghao Han , Nina Dempsey , Symeon Lechareas , Ascanio Tridente , Haoming Chen , Stephen White

We demonstrate use of iteratively pruned deep learning model ensembles for detecting pulmonary manifestation of COVID-19 with chest X-rays. This disease is caused by the novel Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-08 Sivaramakrishnan Rajaraman , Jen Siegelman , Philip O. Alderson , Lucas S. Folio , Les R. Folio , Sameer K. Antani

COVID-19, has led to a global pandemic that strained the healthcare systems. Early and accurate detection is crucial for controlling the spread of the virus. While reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction test is the gold standard…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-15 Mohammed Shabo , Nazar Siddig

In the midst of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak, chest X-ray (CXR) imaging is playing an important role in the diagnosis and monitoring of patients with COVID-19. Machine learning solutions have been shown to be useful for…

Chest X-rays (CXRs) are a widely used imaging modality for the diagnosis and prognosis of lung disease. The image analysis tasks vary. Examples include pathology detection and lung segmentation. There is a large body of work where machine…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-19 Syed Muhammad Anwar , Abhijeet Parida , Sara Atito , Muhammad Awais , Gustavo Nino , Josef Kitler , Marius George Linguraru

Developing a robust algorithm to diagnose and quantify the severity of COVID-19 using Chest X-ray (CXR) requires a large number of well-curated COVID-19 datasets, which is difficult to collect under the global COVID-19 pandemic. On the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-16 Sangjoon Park , Gwanghyun Kim , Yujin Oh , Joon Beom Seo , Sang Min Lee , Jin Hwan Kim , Sungjun Moon , Jae-Kwang Lim , Jong Chul Ye

Problem: Detecting COVID-19 from chest X-Ray (CXR) images has become one of the fastest and easiest methods for detecting COVID-19. However, the existing methods usually use supervised transfer learning from natural images as a pretraining…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-31 Guang Li , Ren Togo , Takahiro Ogawa , Miki Haseyama

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the sheer volume of imaging performed in an emergency setting for COVID-19 diagnosis has resulted in a wide variability of clinical CXR acquisitions. This variation is seen in the CXR projections used, image…

The recent outbreak of COVID-19 has halted the whole world, bringing a devastating effect on public health, global economy, and educational systems. As the vaccine of the virus is still not available, the most effective way to combat the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-01 A. Q. M. Sazzad Sayyed , Dipayan Saha , Abdul Rakib Hossain

Chest radiography is an effective screening tool for diagnosing pulmonary diseases. In computer-aided diagnosis, extracting the relevant region of interest, i.e., isolating the lung region of each radiography image, can be an essential step…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-23 Hilda Azimi , Jianxing Zhang , Pengcheng Xi , Hala Asad , Ashkan Ebadi , Stephane Tremblay , Alexander Wong

We introduce a comprehensive screening platform for the COVID-19 (a.k.a., SARS-CoV-2) pneumonia. The proposed AI-based system works on chest x-ray (CXR) images to predict whether a patient is infected with the COVID-19 disease. Although the…

The COVID-19 can cause severe pneumonia and is estimated to have a high impact on the healthcare system. The standard image diagnosis tests for pneumonia are chest X-ray (CXR) and computed tomography (CT) scan. CXR are useful in because it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Rodolfo M. Pereira , Diego Bertolini , Lucas O. Teixeira , Carlos N. Silla , Yandre M. G. Costa

In this paper, our focus is on constructing models to assist a clinician in the diagnosis of COVID-19 patients in situations where it is easier and cheaper to obtain X-ray data than to obtain high-quality images like those from CT scans.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-15 Rishab Khincha , Soundarya Krishnan , Tirtharaj Dash , Lovekesh Vig , Ashwin Srinivasan

Chest X-Ray (CXR) imaging for pulmonary diagnosis raises significant challenges, primarily because bone structures can obscure critical details necessary for accurate diagnosis. Recent advances in deep learning, particularly with diffusion…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-06 Yifei Sun , Zhanghao Chen , Hao Zheng , Yuqing Lu , Lixin Duan , Fenglei Fan , Ahmed Elazab , Xiang Wan , Changmiao Wang , Ruiquan Ge

The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) is affecting increasingly large number of people worldwide, posing significant stress to the health care systems. Early and accurate diagnosis of COVID-19 is critical in screening of infected patients…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-28 Jianjia Zhang

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
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