Purpose:As to January 11,2021,coronavirus disease(COVID-19)has caused more than 2 million deaths worldwide.Mainly diagnostic methods of COVID-19 are:(i)nucleic acid testing.This method requires high requirements on th...Purpose:As to January 11,2021,coronavirus disease(COVID-19)has caused more than 2 million deaths worldwide.Mainly diagnostic methods of COVID-19 are:(i)nucleic acid testing.This method requires high requirements on the sample testing environment.When collecting samples,staff are in a susceptible environment,which increases the risk of infection.(ii)chest computed tomography.The cost of it is high and some radiation in the scan process.(iii)chest X-ray images.It has the advantages of fast imaging,higher spatial recognition than chest computed tomography.Therefore,our team chose the chest X-ray images as the experimental dataset in this paper.Methods:We proposed a novel framework—BEVGG and three methods(BEVGGC-I,BEVGGC-II,and BEVGGC-III)to diagnose COVID-19 via chest X-ray images.Besides,we used biogeography-based optimization to optimize the values of hyperparameters of the convolutional neural network.Results:The experimental results show that the OA of our proposed three methods are 97.65%±0.65%,94.49%±0.22%and 94.81%±0.52%.BEVGGC-I has the best performance of all methods.Conclusions:The OA of BEVGGC-I is 9.59%±1.04%higher than that of state-of-the-art methods.展开更多
基金Key Science and Technology Program of Henan Province,China(212102310084)J.Sun,X.Li,and C.Tang received the grant.Provincial Key Laboratory for Computer Information Processing Technology,Soochow University(KJS2048),J.Sun received the grant.
文摘Purpose:As to January 11,2021,coronavirus disease(COVID-19)has caused more than 2 million deaths worldwide.Mainly diagnostic methods of COVID-19 are:(i)nucleic acid testing.This method requires high requirements on the sample testing environment.When collecting samples,staff are in a susceptible environment,which increases the risk of infection.(ii)chest computed tomography.The cost of it is high and some radiation in the scan process.(iii)chest X-ray images.It has the advantages of fast imaging,higher spatial recognition than chest computed tomography.Therefore,our team chose the chest X-ray images as the experimental dataset in this paper.Methods:We proposed a novel framework—BEVGG and three methods(BEVGGC-I,BEVGGC-II,and BEVGGC-III)to diagnose COVID-19 via chest X-ray images.Besides,we used biogeography-based optimization to optimize the values of hyperparameters of the convolutional neural network.Results:The experimental results show that the OA of our proposed three methods are 97.65%±0.65%,94.49%±0.22%and 94.81%±0.52%.BEVGGC-I has the best performance of all methods.Conclusions:The OA of BEVGGC-I is 9.59%±1.04%higher than that of state-of-the-art methods.
