Integration of CNN, CBMIR, and Visualization Techniques for Diagnosis and Quantification of Covid-19 Disease

Saeed Mohagheghi | Mehdi Alizadeh | Seyed Mahdi Safavi | Amirhossein Foroozan | Yen-Wei Chen

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URL :   http://research.shahed.ac.ir/WSR/WebPages/Report/PaperView.aspx?PaperID=158846
Date :  2021/10/02
Publish in :    IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics
DOI :  https://doi.org/10.1109/JBHI.2021.3067333
Link :  http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/JBHI.2021.3067333
Keywords :Content-Based Medical Image Retrieval, Convolutional Neural Networks, COVID-19, Deep learning, Lung image processing.

Abstract :

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Diagnosis techniques based on medical image modalities have higher sensitivities compared to conventional RT-PCT tests. We propose two methods for diagnosing COVID-19 disease using X-ray images and differentiating it from viral pneumonia. The diagnosis section is based on deep neural networks, and the discriminating uses an image retrieval approach. Both units were trained by healthy, pneumonia, and COVID-19 images. In COVID-19 patients, the maximum intensity projection of the lung CT is visualized to a physician, and the CT Involvement Score is calculated. The performance of the CNN and image retrieval algorithms were improved by transfer learning and hashing functions. We achieved an accuracy of 97 and an overall prec@10 of 87, respectively, concerning the CNN and the retrieval methods.