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OVID-19 is a world-wide disease that has been declared as a pandemic by the World Health Organization. Computer Tomography (CT) imaging of the chest seems to be a valid diagnosis tool to detect COVID-19 promptly and to control the spread of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-30 Matteo Polsinelli , Luigi Cinque , Giuseppe Placidi

This paper explores how well deep learning models trained on chest CT images can diagnose COVID-19 infected people in a fast and automated process. To this end, we adopt advanced deep network architectures and propose a transfer learning…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-19 Hammam Alshazly , Christoph Linse , Erhardt Barth , Thomas Martinetz

Coronavirus Disease spread globally and infected millions of people quickly, causing high pressure on the health-system facilities. PCR screening is the adopted diagnostic testing method for COVID-19 detection. However, PCR is criticized…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-06 Omar Ibrahim Alirr

The global outbreak of the novel corona virus (COVID-19) disease has drastically impacted the world and led to one of the most challenging crisis across the globe since World War II. The early diagnosis and isolation of COVID-19 positive…

With the massive damage in the world caused by Coronavirus Disease 2019 SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19), many related research topics have been proposed in the past two years. The Chest Computed Tomography (CT) scans are the most valuable materials…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-13 Chih-Chung Hsu , Guan-Lin Chen , Mei-Hsuan Wu

To make a more accurate diagnosis of COVID-19, we propose a straightforward yet effective model. Firstly, we analyse the characteristics of 3D CT scans and remove the non-lung parts, facilitating the model to focus on lesion-related areas…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-19 Qingqiu Li , Runtian Yuan , Junlin Hou , Jilan Xu , Yuejie Zhang , Rui Feng , Hao Chen

In this work, we release COVID-Twitter-BERT (CT-BERT), a transformer-based model, pretrained on a large corpus of Twitter messages on the topic of COVID-19. Our model shows a 10-30% marginal improvement compared to its base model,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-18 Martin Müller , Marcel Salathé , Per E Kummervold

The COVID-19 pandemic continues to severely undermine the prosperity of the global health system. To combat this pandemic, effective screening techniques for infected patients are indispensable. There is no doubt that the use of chest X-ray…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-01 Nihad Karim Chowdhury , Md. Muhtadir Rahman , Muhammad Ashad Kabir

Background and Objective: Artificial intelligence (AI) methods coupled with biomedical analysis has a critical role during pandemics as it helps to release the overwhelming pressure from healthcare systems and physicians. As the ongoing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-12 Aman Swaraj , Karan Verma

To counter the outbreak of COVID-19, the accurate diagnosis of suspected cases plays a crucial role in timely quarantine, medical treatment, and preventing the spread of the pandemic. Considering the limited training cases and resources…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-08 Xuelin Qian , Huazhu Fu , Weiya Shi , Tao Chen , Yanwei Fu , Fei Shan , Xiangyang Xue

COVID-19 frequently provokes pneumonia, which can be diagnosed using imaging exams. Chest X-ray (CXR) is often useful because it is cheap, fast, widespread, and uses less radiation. Here, we demonstrate the impact of lung segmentation in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-29 Lucas O. Teixeira , Rodolfo M. Pereira , Diego Bertolini , Luiz S. Oliveira , Loris Nanni , George D. C. Cavalcanti , Yandre M. G. Costa

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

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

Accurate airway extraction from computed tomography (CT) images is a critical step for planning navigation bronchoscopy and quantitative assessment of airway-related chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The existing methods are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-16 Yanan Wu , Shuiqing Zhao , Shouliang Qi , Jie Feng , Haowen Pang , Runsheng Chang , Long Bai , Mengqi Li , Shuyue Xia , Wei Qian , Hongliang Ren

Recently, the outbreak of the novel Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has seriously endangered human health and life. Due to limited availability of test kits, the need for auxiliary diagnostic approach has increased. Recent…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-07 Xiao Qi , Lloyd Brown , David J. Foran , Ilker Hacihaliloglu

The need for CT scan analysis is growing for pre-diagnosis and therapy of abdominal organs. Automatic organ segmentation of abdominal CT scan can help radiologists analyze the scans faster and segment organ images with fewer errors.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Shima Rafiei , Ebrahim Nasr-Esfahani , S. M. Reza Soroushmehr , Nader Karimi , Shadrokh Samavi , Kayvan Najarian

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

Deep learning has been used to assist in the analysis of medical imaging. One such use is the classification of Computed Tomography (CT) scans when detecting for COVID-19 in subjects. This paper presents Cov3d, a three dimensional…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-26 Robert Turnbull

Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) demonstrated the need for accurate and fast diagnosis methods for emergent viral diseases. Soon after the emergence of COVID-19, medical practitioners used X-ray and computed tomography (CT) images of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-22 Weihan Zhang , Bryan Pogorelsky , Mark Loveland , Trevor Wolf

The current COVID-19 pandemic overloads healthcare systems, including radiology departments. Though several deep learning approaches were developed to assist in CT analysis, nobody considered study triage directly as a computer science…