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Over the last year, the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) and its variants have highlighted the importance of screening tools with high diagnostic accuracy for new illnesses such as COVID-19. To that regard, deep…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-26 Danilo Avola , Andrea Bacciu , Luigi Cinque , Alessio Fagioli , Marco Raoul Marini , Riccardo Taiello

The COVID-19 pandemic strained healthcare resources and prompted discussion about how machine learning can alleviate physician burdens and contribute to diagnosis. Chest x-rays (CXRs) are used for diagnosis of COVID-19, but few studies…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-03 Luis Lara , Lucia Eve Berger , Rajesh Raju

With a Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) case count exceeding 10 million worldwide, there is an increased need for a diagnostic capability. The main variables in increasing diagnostic capability are reduced cost, turnaround or diagnosis time,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-21 Hussin K. Ragb , Ian T. Dover , Redha Ali

The increased availability of X-ray image archives (e.g. the ChestX-ray14 dataset from the NIH Clinical Center) has triggered a growing interest in deep learning techniques. To provide better insight into the different approaches, and their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-30 Ivo M. Baltruschat , Hannes Nickisch , Michael Grass , Tobias Knopp , Axel Saalbach

Existing deep learning models for chest radiology often neglect patient metadata, limiting diagnostic accuracy and fairness. To bridge this gap, we introduce MetaCheX, a novel multimodal framework that integrates chest X-ray images with…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-17 Nathan He , Cody Chen

The COVID19 pandemic has had a detrimental impact on the health and welfare of the worlds population. An important strategy in the fight against COVID19 is the effective screening of infected patients, with one of the primary screening…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-05 Nafiz Fahad , Fariha Jahan , Md Kishor Morol , Rasel Ahmed , Md. Abdullah-Al-Jubair

Multi-Classification Chest X-Ray Images are one of the most prevalent forms of radiological examination used for diagnosing thoracic diseases. In this study, we offer a concise overview of several methods employed for tackling this task,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Santiago Martínez Novoa , María Catalina Ibáñez , Lina Gómez Mesa , Jeremias Kramer

Medical imaging has been used for diagnosis of various conditions, making it one of the most powerful resources for effective patient care. Due to widespread availability, low cost, and low radiation, chest X-ray is one of the most sought…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-22 Sonit Singh

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

The COVID-19 pandemic continues to rage on, with multiple waves causing substantial harm to health and economies around the world. Motivated by the use of CT imaging at clinical institutes around the world as an effective complementary…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-27 Hayden Gunraj , Ali Sabri , David Koff , Alexander Wong

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

With COVID-19 cases rising rapidly, deep learning has emerged as a promising diagnosis technique. However, identifying the most accurate models to characterize COVID-19 patients is challenging because comparing results obtained with…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-20 Aksh Garg , Sana Salehi , Marianna La Rocca , Rachael Garner , Dominique Duncan

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

Since, cancer is curable when diagnosed at an early stage, lung cancer screening plays an important role in preventive care. Although both low dose computed tomography (LDCT) and computed tomography (CT) scans provide more medical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-28 Worawate Ausawalaithong , Sanparith Marukatat , Arjaree Thirach , Theerawit Wilaiprasitporn

Machine learning methods offer great promise for fast and accurate detection and prognostication of COVID-19 from standard-of-care chest radiographs (CXR) and computed tomography (CT) images. Many articles have been published in 2020…

The worldwide spread of pneumonia caused by a novel coronavirus poses an unprecedented challenge to the world's medical resources and prevention and control measures. Covid-19 attacks not only the lungs, making it difficult to breathe and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-05 Dailin Lv , Wuteng Qi , Yunxiang Li , Lingling Sun , Yaqi Wang

To reduce the amount of required labeled data for lung disease severity classification from chest X-rays (CXRs) under class imbalance, this study applied deep active learning with a Bayesian Neural Network (BNN) approximation and weighted…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-01 Roy M. Gabriel , Mohammadreza Zandehshahvar , Marly van Assen , Nattakorn Kittisut , Kyle Peters , Carlo N. De Cecco , Ali Adibi

This technical report proposes the use of a deep convolutional neural network as a preliminary diagnostic method in the analysis of chest computed tomography images from patients with symptoms of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-24 Victor Felipe Reis-Silva

Tuberculosis (TB) remains a global health problem, and is the leading cause of death from an infectious disease. A crucial step in the treatment of tuberculosis is screening high risk populations and the early detection of the disease, with…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-15 Alexander Wong , James Ren Hou Lee , Hadi Rahmat-Khah , Ali Sabri , Amer Alaref

Pneumonia is caused by viruses, bacteria, or fungi that infect the lungs, which, if not diagnosed, can be fatal and lead to respiratory failure. More than 250,000 individuals in the United States, mainly adults, are diagnosed with pneumonia…

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