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Chest computed tomography (CT) has played an essential diagnostic role in assessing patients with COVID-19 by showing disease-specific image features such as ground-glass opacity and consolidation. Image segmentation methods have proven to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-26 Seong Tae Kim , Leili Goli , Magdalini Paschali , Ashkan Khakzar , Matthias Keicher , Tobias Czempiel , Egon Burian , Rickmer Braren , Nassir Navab , Thomas Wendler

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

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

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

COVID-19 is a global health problem. Consequently, early detection and analysis of the infection patterns are crucial for controlling infection spread as well as devising a treatment plan. This work proposes a two-stage deep Convolutional…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-21 Saddam Hussain Khan , Anabia Sohail , Asifullah Khan , Yeon Soo Lee

This paper presents a new approach for effective segmentation of images that can be integrated into any model and methodology; the paradigm that we choose is classification of medical images (3-D chest CT scans) for Covid-19 detection. Our…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-25 Dimitrios Kollias , Anastasios Arsenos , James Wingate , Stefanos Kollias

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) affects billions of lives around the world and has a significant impact on public healthcare. Due to rising skepticism towards the sensitivity of RT-PCR as screening method, medical imaging like…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-14 Dominik Müller , Iñaki Soto Rey , Frank Kramer

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a highly contagious virus spreading all around the world. Deep learning has been adopted as an effective technique to aid COVID-19 detection and segmentation from computed tomography (CT) images. The…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-05 Yixin Wang , Yao Zhang , Yang Liu , Jiang Tian , Cheng Zhong , Zhongchao Shi , Yang Zhang , Zhiqiang He

This study explores the use of deep learning techniques for analyzing lung Computed Tomography (CT) images. Classic deep learning approaches face challenges with varying slice counts and resolutions in CT images, a diversity arising from…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-19 Chih-Chung Hsu , Chia-Ming Lee , Yang Fan Chiang , Yi-Shiuan Chou , Chih-Yu Jiang , Shen-Chieh Tai , Chi-Han Tsai

This paper proposes an automated segmentation method of infection and normal regions in the lung from CT volumes of COVID-19 patients. From December 2019, novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) spreads over the world and giving…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-11 Masahiro Oda , Yuichiro Hayashi , Yoshito Otake , Masahiro Hashimoto , Toshiaki Akashi , Kensaku Mori

In this study, we propose a robust methodology for automatic segmentation of infected lung regions in COVID-19 CT scans using convolutional neural networks. The approach is based on a modified U-Net architecture enhanced with attention…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-20 Amal Lahchim , Lazar Davic

Lung ultrasound imaging has been shown effective in detecting typical patterns for interstitial pneumonia, as a point-of-care tool for both patients with COVID-19 and other community-acquired pneumonia (CAP). In this work, we focus on the…

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

Novel Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is a highly contagious respiratory infection that has had devastating effects on the world. Recently, new COVID-19 variants are emerging making the situation more challenging and threatening. Evaluation…

Background: Triage of patients is important to control the pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), especially during the peak of the pandemic when clinical resources become extremely limited. Purpose: To develop a method that…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-14 Mengqiu Liu , Ying Liu , Yidong Yang , Aiping Liu , Shana Li , Changbing Qu , Xiaohui Qiu , Yang Li , Weifu Lv , Peng Zhang , Jie Wen

Automated detecting lung infections from computed tomography (CT) data plays an important role for combating COVID-19. However, there are still some challenges for developing AI system. 1) Most current COVID-19 infection segmentation…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-11 Liansheng Wang , Jiacheng Wang , Lei Zhu , Huazhu Fu , Ping Li , Gary Cheng , Zhipeng Feng , Shuo Li , Pheng-Ann Heng

Segmentation of lung tissue in computed tomography (CT) images is a precursor to most pulmonary image analysis applications. Semantic segmentation methods using deep learning have exhibited top-tier performance in recent years, however…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-27 Niloufar Delfan , Hamid Abrishami Moghaddam , Mohammadreza Modaresi , Kimia Afshari , Kasra Nezamabadi , Neda Pak , Omid Ghaemi , Mohamad Forouzanfar

Background and Objective: During pandemics, the use of artificial intelligence (AI) approaches combined with biomedical science play a significant role in reducing the burden on the healthcare systems and physicians. The rapid increment in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-30 Mansi Gupta , Aman Swaraj , Karan Verma

The main purpose of this study is to develop a pipeline for COVID-19 detection from a big and challenging database of Computed Tomography (CT) images. The proposed pipeline includes a segmentation part, a lung extraction part, and a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-08 Kenan Morani

Federated Learning is the most promising way to train robust Deep Learning models for the segmentation of Covid-19-related findings in chest CTs. By learning in a decentralized fashion, heterogeneous data can be leveraged from a variety of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-17 Camila Gonzalez , Christian Harder , Amin Ranem , Ricarda Fischbach , Isabel Kaltenborn , Armin Dadras , Andreas Bucher , Anirban Mukhopadhyay