Convolution Neural Networks(CNN)can quickly diagnose COVID-19 patients by analyzing computed tomography(CT)images of the lung,thereby effectively preventing the spread of COVID-19.However,the existing CNN-based COVID-...Convolution Neural Networks(CNN)can quickly diagnose COVID-19 patients by analyzing computed tomography(CT)images of the lung,thereby effectively preventing the spread of COVID-19.However,the existing CNN-based COVID-19 diagnosis models do consider the problem that the lung images of COVID-19 patients in the early stage and incubation period are extremely similar to those of the non-COVID-19 population.Which reduces the model’s classification sensitivity,resulting in a higher probability of the model misdiagnosing COVID-19 patients as non-COVID-19 people.To solve the problem,this paper first attempts to apply triplet loss and center loss to the field of COVID-19 image classification,combining softmax loss to design a jointly supervised metric loss function COVID Triplet-Center Loss(COVID-TCL).Triplet loss can increase inter-class discreteness,and center loss can improve intra-class compactness.Therefore,COVID-TCL can help the CNN-based model to extract more discriminative features and strengthen the diagnostic capacity of COVID-19 patients in the early stage and incubation period.Meanwhile,we use the extreme gradient boosting(XGBoost)as a classifier to design a COVID-19 images classification model of CNN-XGBoost architecture,to further improve the CNN-based model’s classification effect and operation efficiency.The experiment shows that the classification accuracy of the model proposed in this paper is 97.41%,and the sensitivity is 97.61%,which is higher than the other 7 reference models.The COVID-TCL can effectively improve the classification sensitivity of the CNN-based model,the CNN-XGBoost architecture can further improve the CNN-based model’s classification effect.展开更多
The Omicron variants have continued to cause severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infections.To better understand the anti-viral effects of vaccination on host-virus interactions during the outbreak of BA.2...The Omicron variants have continued to cause severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infections.To better understand the anti-viral effects of vaccination on host-virus interactions during the outbreak of BA.2.2 Omicron,we conducted RNA-seq transcriptome analysis on nasopharyngeal swabs from COVID-19 patients in Shanghai.This study was performed on selected cases from unvaccinated,fully vaccinated,and booster groups with the same founder virus infection background.We observed predominant immune cell chemotaxis and interleukin-1 production,as well as mucosal keratinization and epidermis development,in unvaccinated patients.In contrast,fully vaccinated subjects exhibited an obvious T-cell activation in the local immune response,whereas B-cell activation was higher in booster-vaccinated cases.In conclusion,our findings suggest that full or booster vaccination provides better adaptive immunity and relieve inflammation at the nasopharyngeal site,thereby reducing the risk of cytokine storm during breakthrough infection.展开更多
基金This work was supported,in part,by the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province under Grant Numbers BK20201136,BK20191401in part,by the National Nature Science Foundation of China under Grant Numbers 62272236,61502096,61304205,61773219,61502240in part,by the Public Welfare Fund Project of Zhejiang Province Grant Numbers LGG20E050001.
文摘Convolution Neural Networks(CNN)can quickly diagnose COVID-19 patients by analyzing computed tomography(CT)images of the lung,thereby effectively preventing the spread of COVID-19.However,the existing CNN-based COVID-19 diagnosis models do consider the problem that the lung images of COVID-19 patients in the early stage and incubation period are extremely similar to those of the non-COVID-19 population.Which reduces the model’s classification sensitivity,resulting in a higher probability of the model misdiagnosing COVID-19 patients as non-COVID-19 people.To solve the problem,this paper first attempts to apply triplet loss and center loss to the field of COVID-19 image classification,combining softmax loss to design a jointly supervised metric loss function COVID Triplet-Center Loss(COVID-TCL).Triplet loss can increase inter-class discreteness,and center loss can improve intra-class compactness.Therefore,COVID-TCL can help the CNN-based model to extract more discriminative features and strengthen the diagnostic capacity of COVID-19 patients in the early stage and incubation period.Meanwhile,we use the extreme gradient boosting(XGBoost)as a classifier to design a COVID-19 images classification model of CNN-XGBoost architecture,to further improve the CNN-based model’s classification effect and operation efficiency.The experiment shows that the classification accuracy of the model proposed in this paper is 97.41%,and the sensitivity is 97.61%,which is higher than the other 7 reference models.The COVID-TCL can effectively improve the classification sensitivity of the CNN-based model,the CNN-XGBoost architecture can further improve the CNN-based model’s classification effect.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos 92169212 and 82161138018)Shanghai Key Laboratory of Infectious Diseases and Biosafety Emergency Response(20dz2260100)+1 种基金Key Discipline Construction Plan fromShanghaiMunicipalHealth Commission(GWV-10.1-XK01)ShanghaiMunicipal Science and Technology Major Project(HS2021SHZX001).
文摘The Omicron variants have continued to cause severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infections.To better understand the anti-viral effects of vaccination on host-virus interactions during the outbreak of BA.2.2 Omicron,we conducted RNA-seq transcriptome analysis on nasopharyngeal swabs from COVID-19 patients in Shanghai.This study was performed on selected cases from unvaccinated,fully vaccinated,and booster groups with the same founder virus infection background.We observed predominant immune cell chemotaxis and interleukin-1 production,as well as mucosal keratinization and epidermis development,in unvaccinated patients.In contrast,fully vaccinated subjects exhibited an obvious T-cell activation in the local immune response,whereas B-cell activation was higher in booster-vaccinated cases.In conclusion,our findings suggest that full or booster vaccination provides better adaptive immunity and relieve inflammation at the nasopharyngeal site,thereby reducing the risk of cytokine storm during breakthrough infection.