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Automatic segmentation of infected regions in computed tomography (CT) images is necessary for the initial diagnosis of COVID-19. Deep-learning-based methods have the potential to automate this task but require a large amount of data with…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-28 Han Chen , Yifan Jiang , Hanseok Ko , Murray Loew

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

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

The global pandemic of the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has put tremendous pressure on the medical system. Imaging plays a complementary role in the management of patients with COVID-19. Computed tomography (CT) and chest X-ray…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-21 Hui Che , Jared Radbel , Jag Sunderram , John L. Nosher , Vishal M. Patel , Ilker Hacihaliloglu

COVID-19 infection caused by SARS-CoV-2 pathogen is a catastrophic pandemic outbreak all over the world with exponential increasing of confirmed cases and, unfortunately, deaths. In this work we propose an AI-powered pipeline, based on the…

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…

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 current COVID-19 pandemic is a serious threat to humanity that directly affects the lungs. Automatic identification of COVID-19 is a challenge for health care officials. The standard gold method for diagnosing COVID-19 is Reverse…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-09 Briskline Kiruba S , Petchiammal A , D. Murugan

Segmentation of COVID-19 lesions can assist physicians in better diagnosis and treatment of COVID-19. However, there are few relevant studies due to the lack of detailed information and high-quality annotation in the COVID-19 dataset. To…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-02 Dandan Shan , Zihan Li , Wentao Chen , Qingde Li , Jie Tian , Qingqi Hong

This paper presents our solution for the 2nd COVID-19 Severity Detection Competition. This task aims to distinguish the Mild, Moderate, Severe, and Critical grades in COVID-19 chest CT images. In our approach, we devise a novel…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-02 Junlin Hou , Jilan Xu , Nan Zhang , Yuejie Zhang , Xiaobo Zhang , Rui Feng

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

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

The spread of COVID-19 has brought a huge disaster to the world, and the automatic segmentation of infection regions can help doctors to make diagnosis quickly and reduce workload. However, there are several challenges for the accurate and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-19 Runmin Cong , Haowei Yang , Qiuping Jiang , Wei Gao , Haisheng Li , Cong Wang , Yao Zhao , Sam Kwong

The novel COVID-19 is a global pandemic disease overgrowing worldwide. Computer-aided screening tools with greater sensitivity is imperative for disease diagnosis and prognosis as early as possible. It also can be a helpful tool in triage…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-15 Md. Kamrul Hasan , Md. Tasnim Jawad , Kazi Nasim Imtiaz Hasan , Sajal Basak Partha , Md. Masum Al Masba , Shumit Saha

Recently, the lung infection due to Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) affected a large human group worldwide and the assessment of the infection rate in the lung is essential for treatment planning. This research aims to propose a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-29 Seifedine Kadry , Venkatesan Rajinikanth , Seungmin Rho , Nadaradjane Sri Madhava Raja , Vaddi Seshagiri Rao , Krishnan Palani Thanaraj

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

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

This paper proposes a segmentation method of infection regions in the lung from CT volumes of COVID-19 patients. COVID-19 spread worldwide, causing many infected patients and deaths. CT image-based diagnosis of COVID-19 can provide quick…

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

Since 2019, coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has been widely spread and posed a serious threat to public health. Chest Computed Tomography (CT) holds great potential for screening and diagnosis of this disease. The segmentation of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-01 Jiesi Hu , Yanwu Yang , Xutao Guo , Ting Ma