This paper emphasizes a faster digital processing time while presenting an accurate method for identifying spinefractures in X-ray pictures. The study focuses on efficiency by utilizing many methods that include pictu...This paper emphasizes a faster digital processing time while presenting an accurate method for identifying spinefractures in X-ray pictures. The study focuses on efficiency by utilizing many methods that include picturesegmentation, feature reduction, and image classification. Two important elements are investigated to reducethe classification time: Using feature reduction software and leveraging the capabilities of sophisticated digitalprocessing hardware. The researchers use different algorithms for picture enhancement, including theWiener andKalman filters, and they look into two background correction techniques. The article presents a technique forextracting textural features and evaluates three picture segmentation algorithms and three fractured spine detectionalgorithms using transformdomain, PowerDensity Spectrum(PDS), andHigher-Order Statistics (HOS) for featureextraction.With an emphasis on reducing digital processing time, this all-encompassing method helps to create asimplified system for classifying fractured spine fractures. A feature reduction program code has been built toimprove the processing speed for picture classification. Overall, the proposed approach shows great potential forsignificantly reducing classification time in clinical settings where time is critical. In comparison to other transformdomains, the texture features’ discrete cosine transform (DCT) yielded an exceptional classification rate, and theprocess of extracting features from the transform domain took less time. More capable hardware can also result inquicker execution times for the feature extraction algorithms.展开更多
Astronomical imaging technologies are basic tools for the exploration of the universe,providing basic data for the research of astronomy and space physics.The Soft X-ray Imager(SXI)carried by the Solar wind Magnetosph...Astronomical imaging technologies are basic tools for the exploration of the universe,providing basic data for the research of astronomy and space physics.The Soft X-ray Imager(SXI)carried by the Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer(SMILE)aims to capture two-dimensional(2-D)images of the Earth’s magnetosheath by using soft X-ray imaging.However,the observed 2-D images are affected by many noise factors,destroying the contained information,which is not conducive to the subsequent reconstruction of the three-dimensional(3-D)structure of the magnetopause.The analysis of SXI-simulated observation images shows that such damage cannot be evaluated with traditional restoration models.This makes it difficult to establish the mapping relationship between SXIsimulated observation images and target images by using mathematical models.We propose an image restoration algorithm for SXIsimulated observation images that can recover large-scale structure information on the magnetosphere.The idea is to train a patch estimator by selecting noise–clean patch pairs with the same distribution through the Classification–Expectation Maximization algorithm to achieve the restoration estimation of the SXI-simulated observation image,whose mapping relationship with the target image is established by the patch estimator.The Classification–Expectation Maximization algorithm is used to select multiple patch clusters with the same distribution and then train different patch estimators so as to improve the accuracy of the estimator.Experimental results showed that our image restoration algorithm is superior to other classical image restoration algorithms in the SXI-simulated observation image restoration task,according to the peak signal-to-noise ratio and structural similarity.The restoration results of SXI-simulated observation images are used in the tangent fitting approach and the computed tomography approach toward magnetospheric reconstruction techniques,significantly improving the reconstruction results.Hence,the proposed technology may be feasible for processing SXI-simulated observation images.展开更多
The Lunar Environment heliospheric X-ray Imager(LEXI)and Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer(SMILE)missions will image the Earth’s dayside magneto pause and cusps in soft X-rays after their respective l...The Lunar Environment heliospheric X-ray Imager(LEXI)and Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer(SMILE)missions will image the Earth’s dayside magneto pause and cusps in soft X-rays after their respective launches in the near future,to specify glo bal magnetic reconnection modes for varying solar wind conditions.To suppo rt the success of these scientific missions,it is critical to develop techniques that extract the magnetopause locations from the observed soft X-ray images.In this research,we introduce a new geometric equation that calculates the subsolar magnetopause position(RS)from a satellite position,the look direction of the instrument,and the angle at which the X-ray emission is maximized.Two assumptions are used in this method:(1)The look direction where soft X-ray emissions are maximized lies tangent to the magnetopause,and(2)the magnetopause surface near the subsolar point is almost spherical and thus RSis nea rly equal to the radius of the magneto pause curvature.We create synthetic soft X-ray images by using the Open Geospace General Circulation Model(OpenGGCM)global magnetohydrodynamic model,the galactic background,the instrument point spread function,and Poisson noise.We then apply the fast Fourier transform and Gaussian low-pass filte rs to the synthetic images to re move noise and obtain accurate look angles for the soft X-ray pea ks.From the filte red images,we calculate RS and its accuracy for different LEXI locations,look directions,and solar wind densities by using the OpenGGCM subsolar magnetopause location as ground truth.Our method estimates RS with an accuracy of<0.3 RE when the solar wind density exceeds>10 cm-3.The accuracy improves for greater solar wind densities and during southward interplanetary magnetic fields.The method ca ptures the magnetopause motion during southwa rd interplaneta ry magnetic field turnings.Consequently,the technique will enable quantitative analysis of the magnetopause motion and help reveal the dayside reconnection modes for dynamic solar wind conditions.This technique will suppo rt the LEXI and SMILE missions in achieving their scientific o bjectives.展开更多
An illness known as pneumonia causes inflammation in the lungs.Since there is so much information available fromvarious X-ray images,diagnosing pneumonia has typically proven challenging.To improve image quality and s...An illness known as pneumonia causes inflammation in the lungs.Since there is so much information available fromvarious X-ray images,diagnosing pneumonia has typically proven challenging.To improve image quality and speed up the diagnosis of pneumonia,numerous approaches have been devised.To date,several methods have been employed to identify pneumonia.The Convolutional Neural Network(CNN)has achieved outstanding success in identifying and diagnosing diseases in the fields of medicine and radiology.However,these methods are complex,inefficient,and imprecise to analyze a big number of datasets.In this paper,a new hybrid method for the automatic classification and identification of Pneumonia from chest X-ray images is proposed.The proposed method(ABOCNN)utilized theAfrican BuffaloOptimization(ABO)algorithmto enhanceCNNperformance and accuracy.The Weinmed filter is employed for pre-processing to eliminate unwanted noises from chest X-ray images,followed by feature extraction using the Grey Level Co-Occurrence Matrix(GLCM)approach.Relevant features are then selected from the dataset using the ABO algorithm,and ultimately,high-performance deep learning using the CNN approach is introduced for the classification and identification of Pneumonia.Experimental results on various datasets showed that,when contrasted to other approaches,the ABO-CNN outperforms them all for the classification tasks.The proposed method exhibits superior values like 96.95%,88%,86%,and 86%for accuracy,precision,recall,and F1-score,respectively.展开更多
Manual investigation of chest radiography(CXR)images by physicians is crucial for effective decision-making in COVID-19 diagnosis.However,the high demand during the pandemic necessitates auxiliary help through image a...Manual investigation of chest radiography(CXR)images by physicians is crucial for effective decision-making in COVID-19 diagnosis.However,the high demand during the pandemic necessitates auxiliary help through image analysis and machine learning techniques.This study presents a multi-threshold-based segmentation technique to probe high pixel intensity regions in CXR images of various pathologies,including normal cases.Texture information is extracted using gray co-occurrence matrix(GLCM)-based features,while vessel-like features are obtained using Frangi,Sato,and Meijering filters.Machine learning models employing Decision Tree(DT)and RandomForest(RF)approaches are designed to categorize CXR images into common lung infections,lung opacity(LO),COVID-19,and viral pneumonia(VP).The results demonstrate that the fusion of texture and vesselbased features provides an effective ML model for aiding diagnosis.The ML model validation using performance measures,including an accuracy of approximately 91.8%with an RF-based classifier,supports the usefulness of the feature set and classifier model in categorizing the four different pathologies.Furthermore,the study investigates the importance of the devised features in identifying the underlying pathology and incorporates histogrambased analysis.This analysis reveals varying natural pixel distributions in CXR images belonging to the normal,COVID-19,LO,and VP groups,motivating the incorporation of additional features such as mean,standard deviation,skewness,and percentile based on the filtered images.Notably,the study achieves a considerable improvement in categorizing COVID-19 from LO,with a true positive rate of 97%,further substantiating the effectiveness of the methodology implemented.展开更多
COVID-19 is a respiratory illness caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, first identified in 2019. The primary mode of transmission is through respiratory droplets when an infected person coughs or sneezes. Symptoms can rang...COVID-19 is a respiratory illness caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, first identified in 2019. The primary mode of transmission is through respiratory droplets when an infected person coughs or sneezes. Symptoms can range from mild to severe, and timely diagnosis is crucial for effective treatment. Chest X-Ray imaging is one diagnostic tool used for COVID-19, and a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) is a popular technique for image classification. In this study, we proposed a CNN-based approach for detecting COVID-19 in chest X-Ray images. The model was trained on a dataset containing both COVID-19 positive and negative cases and evaluated on a separate test dataset to measure its accuracy. Our results indicated that the CNN approach could accurately detect COVID-19 in chest X-Ray images, with an overall accuracy of 97%. This approach could potentially serve as an early diagnostic tool to reduce the spread of the virus.展开更多
The COVID-19 pandemic has devastated our daily lives,leaving horrific repercussions in its aftermath.Due to its rapid spread,it was quite difficult for medical personnel to diagnose it in such a big quantity.Patients ...The COVID-19 pandemic has devastated our daily lives,leaving horrific repercussions in its aftermath.Due to its rapid spread,it was quite difficult for medical personnel to diagnose it in such a big quantity.Patients who test positive for Covid-19 are diagnosed via a nasal PCR test.In comparison,polymerase chain reaction(PCR)findings take a few hours to a few days.The PCR test is expensive,although the government may bear expenses in certain places.Furthermore,subsets of the population resist invasive testing like swabs.Therefore,chest X-rays or Computerized Vomography(CT)scans are preferred in most cases,and more importantly,they are non-invasive,inexpensive,and provide a faster response time.Recent advances in Artificial Intelligence(AI),in combination with state-of-the-art methods,have allowed for the diagnosis of COVID-19 using chest x-rays.This article proposes a method for classifying COVID-19 as positive or negative on a decentralized dataset that is based on the Federated learning scheme.In order to build a progressive global COVID-19 classification model,two edge devices are employed to train the model on their respective localized dataset,and a 3-layered custom Convolutional Neural Network(CNN)model is used in the process of training the model,which can be deployed from the server.These two edge devices then communicate their learned parameter and weight to the server,where it aggregates and updates the globalmodel.The proposed model is trained using an image dataset that can be found on Kaggle.There are more than 13,000 X-ray images in Kaggle Database collection,from that collection 9000 images of Normal and COVID-19 positive images are used.Each edge node possesses a different number of images;edge node 1 has 3200 images,while edge node 2 has 5800.There is no association between the datasets of the various nodes that are included in the network.By doing it in this manner,each of the nodes will have access to a separate image collection that has no correlation with each other.The diagnosis of COVID-19 has become considerably more efficient with the installation of the suggested algorithm and dataset,and the findings that we have obtained are quite encouraging.展开更多
A chest radiology scan can significantly aid the early diagnosis and management of COVID-19 since the virus attacks the lungs.Chest X-ray(CXR)gained much interest after the COVID-19 outbreak thanks to its rapid imagin...A chest radiology scan can significantly aid the early diagnosis and management of COVID-19 since the virus attacks the lungs.Chest X-ray(CXR)gained much interest after the COVID-19 outbreak thanks to its rapid imaging time,widespread availability,low cost,and portability.In radiological investigations,computer-aided diagnostic tools are implemented to reduce intra-and inter-observer variability.Using lately industrialized Artificial Intelligence(AI)algorithms and radiological techniques to diagnose and classify disease is advantageous.The current study develops an automatic identification and classification model for CXR pictures using Gaussian Fil-tering based Optimized Synergic Deep Learning using Remora Optimization Algorithm(GF-OSDL-ROA).This method is inclusive of preprocessing and classification based on optimization.The data is preprocessed using Gaussian filtering(GF)to remove any extraneous noise from the image’s edges.Then,the OSDL model is applied to classify the CXRs under different severity levels based on CXR data.The learning rate of OSDL is optimized with the help of ROA for COVID-19 diagnosis showing the novelty of the work.OSDL model,applied in this study,was validated using the COVID-19 dataset.The experiments were conducted upon the proposed OSDL model,which achieved a classification accuracy of 99.83%,while the current Convolutional Neural Network achieved less classification accuracy,i.e.,98.14%.展开更多
Real-time detection of Covid-19 has definitely been the most widely-used world-wide classification problem since the start of the pandemic from 2020 until now.In the meantime,airspace opacities spreads related to lung...Real-time detection of Covid-19 has definitely been the most widely-used world-wide classification problem since the start of the pandemic from 2020 until now.In the meantime,airspace opacities spreads related to lung have been of the most challenging problems in this area.A common approach to do on that score has been using chest X-ray images to better diagnose positive Covid-19 cases.Similar to most other classification problems,machine learning-based approaches have been the first/most-used candidates in this application.Many schemes based on machine/deep learning have been proposed in recent years though increasing the performance and accuracy of the system has still remained an open issue.In this paper,we develop a novel deep learning architecture to better classify the Covid-19 X-ray images.To do so,we first propose a novel multi-habitat migration artificial bee colony(MHMABC)algorithm to improve the exploitation/exploration of artificial bee colony(ABC)algorithm.After that,we optimally train the fully connected by using the proposed MHMABC algorithm to obtain better accuracy and convergence rate while reducing the execution cost.Our experiment results on Covid-19 X-ray image dataset show that the proposed deep architecture has a great performance in different important optimization parameters.Furthermore,it will be shown that the MHMABC algorithm outperforms the state-of-the-art algorithms by evaluating its performance using some wellknown benchmark datasets.展开更多
In computer vision,object recognition and image categorization have proven to be difficult challenges.They have,nevertheless,generated responses to a wide range of difficult issues from a variety of fields.Convolution...In computer vision,object recognition and image categorization have proven to be difficult challenges.They have,nevertheless,generated responses to a wide range of difficult issues from a variety of fields.Convolution Neural Networks(CNNs)have recently been identified as the most widely proposed deep learning(DL)algorithms in the literature.CNNs have unquestionably delivered cutting-edge achievements,particularly in the areas of image classification,speech recognition,and video processing.However,it has been noticed that the CNN-training assignment demands a large amount of data,which is in low supply,especially in the medical industry,and as a result,the training process takes longer.In this paper,we describe an attentionaware CNN architecture for classifying chest X-ray images to diagnose Pneumonia in order to address the aforementioned difficulties.AttentionModules provide attention-aware properties to the Attention Network.The attentionaware features of various modules alter as the layers become deeper.Using a bottom-up top-down feedforward structure,the feedforward and feedback attention processes are integrated into a single feedforward process inside each attention module.In the present work,a deep neural network(DNN)is combined with an attention mechanism to test the prediction of Pneumonia disease using chest X-ray pictures.To produce attention-aware features,the suggested networkwas built by merging channel and spatial attentionmodules in DNN architecture.With this network,we worked on a publicly available Kaggle chest X-ray dataset.Extensive testing was carried out to validate the suggested model.In the experimental results,we attained an accuracy of 95.47%and an F-score of 0.92,indicating that the suggested model outperformed against the baseline models.展开更多
X-Ray knee imaging is widely used to detect knee osteoarthritis due to ease of availability and lesser cost.However,the manual categorization of knee joint disorders is time-consuming,requires an expert person,and is ...X-Ray knee imaging is widely used to detect knee osteoarthritis due to ease of availability and lesser cost.However,the manual categorization of knee joint disorders is time-consuming,requires an expert person,and is costly.This article proposes a new approach to classifying knee osteoarthritis using deep learning and a whale optimization algorithm.Two pre-trained deep learning models(Efficientnet-b0 and Densenet201)have been employed for the training and feature extraction.Deep transfer learning with fixed hyperparameter values has been employed to train both selected models on the knee X-Ray images.In the next step,fusion is performed using a canonical correlation approach and obtained a feature vector that has more information than the original feature vector.After that,an improved whale optimization algorithm is developed for dimensionality reduction.The selected features are finally passed to the machine learning algorithms such as Fine-Tuned support vector machine(SVM)and neural networks for classification purposes.The experiments of the proposed framework have been conducted on the publicly available dataset and obtained the maximum accuracy of 90.1%.Also,the system is explained using Explainable Artificial Intelligence(XAI)technique called occlusion,and results are compared with recent research.Based on the results compared with recent techniques,it is shown that the proposed method’s accuracy significantly improved.展开更多
Covid-19 is a deadly virus that is rapidly spread around the world towards the end of the 2020.The consequences of this virus are quite frightening,especially when accompanied by an underlying disease.The novelty of t...Covid-19 is a deadly virus that is rapidly spread around the world towards the end of the 2020.The consequences of this virus are quite frightening,especially when accompanied by an underlying disease.The novelty of the virus,the constant emergence of different variants and its rapid spread have a negative impact on the control and treatment process.Although the new test kits provide almost certain results,chest X-rays are extremely important to detect the progression and degree of the disease.In addition to the Covid-19 virus,pneumonia and harmless opacity of the lungs also complicate the diagnosis.Considering the negative results caused by the virus and the treatment costs,the importance of fast and accurate diagnosis is clearly seen.In this context,deep learning methods appear as an extremely popular approach.In this study,a hybrid model design with superior properties of convolutional neural networks is presented to correctly classify the Covid-19 disease.In addition,in order to contribute to the literature,a suitable dataset with balanced case numbers that can be used in all artificial intelligence classification studies is presented.With this ensemble model design,quite remarkable results are obtained for the diagnosis of three and four-class Covid-19.The proposed model can classify normal,pneumonia,and Covid-19 with 92.6%accuracy and 82.6%for normal,pneumonia,Covid-19,and lung opacity.展开更多
The quick spread of the CoronavirusDisease(COVID-19)infection around the world considered a real danger for global health.The biological structure and symptoms of COVID-19 are similar to other viral chest maladies,whi...The quick spread of the CoronavirusDisease(COVID-19)infection around the world considered a real danger for global health.The biological structure and symptoms of COVID-19 are similar to other viral chest maladies,which makes it challenging and a big issue to improve approaches for efficient identification of COVID-19 disease.In this study,an automatic prediction of COVID-19 identification is proposed to automatically discriminate between healthy and COVID-19 infected subjects in X-ray images using two successful moderns are traditional machine learning methods(e.g.,artificial neural network(ANN),support vector machine(SVM),linear kernel and radial basis function(RBF),k-nearest neighbor(k-NN),Decision Tree(DT),andCN2 rule inducer techniques)and deep learningmodels(e.g.,MobileNets V2,ResNet50,GoogleNet,DarkNet andXception).A largeX-ray dataset has been created and developed,namely the COVID-19 vs.Normal(400 healthy cases,and 400 COVID cases).To the best of our knowledge,it is currently the largest publicly accessible COVID-19 dataset with the largest number of X-ray images of confirmed COVID-19 infection cases.Based on the results obtained from the experiments,it can be concluded that all the models performed well,deep learning models had achieved the optimum accuracy of 98.8%in ResNet50 model.In comparison,in traditional machine learning techniques, the SVM demonstrated the best result for an accuracy of 95% and RBFaccuracy 94% for the prediction of coronavirus disease 2019.展开更多
The latest studies with radiological imaging techniques indicate that X-ray images provide valuable details on the Coronavirus disease 2019(COVID-19).The usage of sophisticated artificial intelligence technology(AI)an...The latest studies with radiological imaging techniques indicate that X-ray images provide valuable details on the Coronavirus disease 2019(COVID-19).The usage of sophisticated artificial intelligence technology(AI)and the radiological images can help in diagnosing the disease reliably and addressing the problem of the shortage of trained doctors in remote villages.In this research,the automated diagnosis of Coronavirus disease was performed using a dataset of X-ray images of patients with severe bacterial pneumonia,reported COVID-19 disease,and normal cases.The goal of the study is to analyze the achievements for medical image recognition of state-of-the-art neural networking architectures.Transfer Learning technique has been implemented in this work.Transfer learning is an ambitious task,but it results in impressive outcomes for identifying distinct patterns in tiny datasets of medical images.The findings indicate that deep learning with X-ray imagery could retrieve important biomarkers relevant for COVID-19 disease detection.Since all diagnostic measures show failure levels that pose questions,the scientific profession should determine the probability of integration of X-rays with the clinical treatment,utilizing the results.The proposed model achieved 96.73%accuracy outperforming the ResNet50 and traditional Resnet18 models.Based on our findings,the proposed system can help the specialist doctors in making verdicts for COVID-19 detection.展开更多
Chronological age estimation using panoramic dental X-ray images is an essential task in forensic sciences.Various statistical approaches have proposed by considering the teeth and mandible.However,building automated ...Chronological age estimation using panoramic dental X-ray images is an essential task in forensic sciences.Various statistical approaches have proposed by considering the teeth and mandible.However,building automated dental age estimation based on machine learning techniques needs more research efforts.In this paper,an automated dental age estimation is proposed using transfer learning.In the proposed approach,features are extracted using two deep neural networks namely,AlexNet and ResNet.Several classifiers are proposed to perform the classification task including decision tree,k-nearest neighbor,linear discriminant,and support vector machine.The proposed approach is evaluated using a number of suitable performance metrics using a dataset that contains 1429 dental X-ray images.The obtained results show that the proposed approach has a promising performance.展开更多
Fracture is one of the most common and unexpected traumas.If not treated in time,it may cause serious consequences such as joint stiffness,traumatic arthritis,and nerve injury.Using computer vision technology to detec...Fracture is one of the most common and unexpected traumas.If not treated in time,it may cause serious consequences such as joint stiffness,traumatic arthritis,and nerve injury.Using computer vision technology to detect fractures can reduce the workload and misdiagnosis of fractures and also improve the fracture detection speed.However,there are still some problems in sternum fracture detection,such as the low detection rate of small and occult fractures.In this work,the authors have constructed a dataset with 1227 labelled X-ray images for sternum fracture detection.The authors designed a fully automatic fracture detection model based on a deep convolution neural network(CNN).The authors used cascade R-CNN,attention mechanism,and atrous convolution to optimise the detection of small fractures in a large X-ray image with big local variations.The authors compared the detection results of YOLOv5 model,cascade R-CNN and other state-of-the-art models.The authors found that the convolution neural network based on cascade and attention mechanism models has a better detection effect and arrives at an mAP of 0.71,which is much better than using the YOLOv5 model(mAP=0.44)and cascade R-CNN(mAP=0.55).展开更多
Structure reconstruction of 3 D anatomy from biplanar X-ray images is a challenging topic. Traditionally, the elastic-model-based method was used to reconstruct 3 D shapes by deforming the control points on the elasti...Structure reconstruction of 3 D anatomy from biplanar X-ray images is a challenging topic. Traditionally, the elastic-model-based method was used to reconstruct 3 D shapes by deforming the control points on the elastic mesh. However, the reconstructed shape is not smooth because the limited control points are only distributed on the edge of the elastic mesh.Alternatively, statistical-model-based methods, which include shape-model-based and intensity-model-based methods, are introduced due to their smooth reconstruction. However, both suffer from limitations. With the shape-model-based method, only the boundary profile is considered, leading to the loss of valid intensity information. For the intensity-based-method, the computation speed is slow because it needs to calculate the intensity distribution in each iteration. To address these issues, we propose a new reconstruction method using X-ray images and a specimen’s CT data. Specifically, the CT data provides both the shape mesh and the intensity model of the vertebra. Intensity model is used to generate the deformation field from X-ray images, while the shape model is used to generate the patient specific model by applying the calculated deformation field.Experiments on the public synthetic dataset and clinical dataset show that the average reconstruction errors are 1.1 mm and1.2 mm, separately. The average reconstruction time is 3 minutes.展开更多
Like the Covid-19 pandemic,smallpox virus infection broke out in the last century,wherein 500 million deaths were reported along with enormous economic loss.But unlike smallpox,the Covid-19 recorded a low exponential ...Like the Covid-19 pandemic,smallpox virus infection broke out in the last century,wherein 500 million deaths were reported along with enormous economic loss.But unlike smallpox,the Covid-19 recorded a low exponential infection rate and mortality rate due to advancement inmedical aid and diagnostics.Data analytics,machine learning,and automation techniques can help in early diagnostics and supporting treatments of many reported patients.This paper proposes a robust and efficient methodology for the early detection of COVID-19 from Chest X-Ray scans utilizing enhanced deep learning techniques.Our study suggests that using the Prediction and Deconvolutional Modules in combination with the SSD architecture can improve the performance of the model trained at this task.We used a publicly open CXR image dataset and implemented the detectionmodelwith task-specific pre-processing and near 80:20 split.This achieved a competitive specificity of 0.9474 and a sensibility/accuracy of 0.9597,which shall help better decision-making for various aspects of identification and treat the infection.展开更多
The new coronavirus(COVID-19),declared by the World Health Organization as a pandemic,has infected more than 1 million people and killed more than 50 thousand.An infection caused by COVID-19 can develop into pneumonia...The new coronavirus(COVID-19),declared by the World Health Organization as a pandemic,has infected more than 1 million people and killed more than 50 thousand.An infection caused by COVID-19 can develop into pneumonia,which can be detected by a chest X-ray exam and should be treated appropriately.In this work,we propose an automatic detection method for COVID-19 infection based on chest X-ray images.The datasets constructed for this study are composed of194 X-ray images of patients diagnosed with coronavirus and 194 X-ray images of healthy patients.Since few images of patients with COVID-19 are publicly available,we apply the concept of transfer learning for this task.We use different architectures of convolutional neural networks(CNNs)trained on Image Net,and adapt them to behave as feature extractors for the X-ray images.Then,the CNNs are combined with consolidated machine learning methods,such as k-Nearest Neighbor,Bayes,Random Forest,multilayer perceptron(MLP),and support vector machine(SVM).The results show that,for one of the datasets,the extractor-classifier pair with the best performance is the Mobile Net architecture with the SVM classifier using a linear kernel,which achieves an accuracy and an F1-score of 98.5%.For the other dataset,the best pair is Dense Net201 with MLP,achieving an accuracy and an F1-score of 95.6%.Thus,the proposed approach demonstrates efficiency in detecting COVID-19 in X-ray images.展开更多
This paper demonstrates empirical research on using convolutional neural networks(CNN)of deep learning techniques to classify X-rays of COVID-19 patients versus normal patients by feature extraction.Feature extraction...This paper demonstrates empirical research on using convolutional neural networks(CNN)of deep learning techniques to classify X-rays of COVID-19 patients versus normal patients by feature extraction.Feature extraction is one of the most significant phases for classifying medical X-rays radiography that requires inclusive domain knowledge.In this study,CNN architectures such as VGG-16,VGG-19,RestNet50,RestNet18 are compared,and an optimized model for feature extraction in X-ray images from various domains invol-ving several classes is proposed.An X-ray radiography classifier with TensorFlow GPU is created executing CNN architectures and our proposed optimized model for classifying COVID-19(Negative or Positive).Then,2,134 X-rays of normal patients and COVID-19 patients generated by an existing open-source online dataset were labeled to train the optimized models.Among those,the optimized model architecture classifier technique achieves higher accuracy(0.97)than four other models,specifically VGG-16,VGG-19,RestNet18,and RestNet50(0.96,0.72,0.91,and 0.93,respectively).Therefore,this study will enable radiol-ogists to more efficiently and effectively classify a patient’s coronavirus disease.展开更多
基金the appreciation to the Deanship of Postgraduate Studies and ScientificResearch atMajmaah University for funding this research work through the Project Number R-2024-922.
文摘This paper emphasizes a faster digital processing time while presenting an accurate method for identifying spinefractures in X-ray pictures. The study focuses on efficiency by utilizing many methods that include picturesegmentation, feature reduction, and image classification. Two important elements are investigated to reducethe classification time: Using feature reduction software and leveraging the capabilities of sophisticated digitalprocessing hardware. The researchers use different algorithms for picture enhancement, including theWiener andKalman filters, and they look into two background correction techniques. The article presents a technique forextracting textural features and evaluates three picture segmentation algorithms and three fractured spine detectionalgorithms using transformdomain, PowerDensity Spectrum(PDS), andHigher-Order Statistics (HOS) for featureextraction.With an emphasis on reducing digital processing time, this all-encompassing method helps to create asimplified system for classifying fractured spine fractures. A feature reduction program code has been built toimprove the processing speed for picture classification. Overall, the proposed approach shows great potential forsignificantly reducing classification time in clinical settings where time is critical. In comparison to other transformdomains, the texture features’ discrete cosine transform (DCT) yielded an exceptional classification rate, and theprocess of extracting features from the transform domain took less time. More capable hardware can also result inquicker execution times for the feature extraction algorithms.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.42322408,42188101,41974211,and 42074202)the Key Research Program of Frontier Sciences,Chinese Academy of Sciences(Grant No.QYZDJ-SSW-JSC028)+1 种基金the Strategic Priority Program on Space Science,Chinese Academy of Sciences(Grant Nos.XDA15052500,XDA15350201,and XDA15014800)supported by the Youth Innovation Promotion Association of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(Grant No.Y202045)。
文摘Astronomical imaging technologies are basic tools for the exploration of the universe,providing basic data for the research of astronomy and space physics.The Soft X-ray Imager(SXI)carried by the Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer(SMILE)aims to capture two-dimensional(2-D)images of the Earth’s magnetosheath by using soft X-ray imaging.However,the observed 2-D images are affected by many noise factors,destroying the contained information,which is not conducive to the subsequent reconstruction of the three-dimensional(3-D)structure of the magnetopause.The analysis of SXI-simulated observation images shows that such damage cannot be evaluated with traditional restoration models.This makes it difficult to establish the mapping relationship between SXIsimulated observation images and target images by using mathematical models.We propose an image restoration algorithm for SXIsimulated observation images that can recover large-scale structure information on the magnetosphere.The idea is to train a patch estimator by selecting noise–clean patch pairs with the same distribution through the Classification–Expectation Maximization algorithm to achieve the restoration estimation of the SXI-simulated observation image,whose mapping relationship with the target image is established by the patch estimator.The Classification–Expectation Maximization algorithm is used to select multiple patch clusters with the same distribution and then train different patch estimators so as to improve the accuracy of the estimator.Experimental results showed that our image restoration algorithm is superior to other classical image restoration algorithms in the SXI-simulated observation image restoration task,according to the peak signal-to-noise ratio and structural similarity.The restoration results of SXI-simulated observation images are used in the tangent fitting approach and the computed tomography approach toward magnetospheric reconstruction techniques,significantly improving the reconstruction results.Hence,the proposed technology may be feasible for processing SXI-simulated observation images.
基金supported by NASA(Grant Nos.80NSSC19K0844,80NSSC20K1670,80MSFC20C0019,and 80GSFC21M0002)support from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center internal funding programs(HIF,Internal Scientist Funding Model,and Internal Research and Development)。
文摘The Lunar Environment heliospheric X-ray Imager(LEXI)and Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer(SMILE)missions will image the Earth’s dayside magneto pause and cusps in soft X-rays after their respective launches in the near future,to specify glo bal magnetic reconnection modes for varying solar wind conditions.To suppo rt the success of these scientific missions,it is critical to develop techniques that extract the magnetopause locations from the observed soft X-ray images.In this research,we introduce a new geometric equation that calculates the subsolar magnetopause position(RS)from a satellite position,the look direction of the instrument,and the angle at which the X-ray emission is maximized.Two assumptions are used in this method:(1)The look direction where soft X-ray emissions are maximized lies tangent to the magnetopause,and(2)the magnetopause surface near the subsolar point is almost spherical and thus RSis nea rly equal to the radius of the magneto pause curvature.We create synthetic soft X-ray images by using the Open Geospace General Circulation Model(OpenGGCM)global magnetohydrodynamic model,the galactic background,the instrument point spread function,and Poisson noise.We then apply the fast Fourier transform and Gaussian low-pass filte rs to the synthetic images to re move noise and obtain accurate look angles for the soft X-ray pea ks.From the filte red images,we calculate RS and its accuracy for different LEXI locations,look directions,and solar wind densities by using the OpenGGCM subsolar magnetopause location as ground truth.Our method estimates RS with an accuracy of<0.3 RE when the solar wind density exceeds>10 cm-3.The accuracy improves for greater solar wind densities and during southward interplanetary magnetic fields.The method ca ptures the magnetopause motion during southwa rd interplaneta ry magnetic field turnings.Consequently,the technique will enable quantitative analysis of the magnetopause motion and help reveal the dayside reconnection modes for dynamic solar wind conditions.This technique will suppo rt the LEXI and SMILE missions in achieving their scientific o bjectives.
基金the Researchers Supporting Project Number(RSP2023 R157),King Saud University,Riyadh,Saudi Arabia.
文摘An illness known as pneumonia causes inflammation in the lungs.Since there is so much information available fromvarious X-ray images,diagnosing pneumonia has typically proven challenging.To improve image quality and speed up the diagnosis of pneumonia,numerous approaches have been devised.To date,several methods have been employed to identify pneumonia.The Convolutional Neural Network(CNN)has achieved outstanding success in identifying and diagnosing diseases in the fields of medicine and radiology.However,these methods are complex,inefficient,and imprecise to analyze a big number of datasets.In this paper,a new hybrid method for the automatic classification and identification of Pneumonia from chest X-ray images is proposed.The proposed method(ABOCNN)utilized theAfrican BuffaloOptimization(ABO)algorithmto enhanceCNNperformance and accuracy.The Weinmed filter is employed for pre-processing to eliminate unwanted noises from chest X-ray images,followed by feature extraction using the Grey Level Co-Occurrence Matrix(GLCM)approach.Relevant features are then selected from the dataset using the ABO algorithm,and ultimately,high-performance deep learning using the CNN approach is introduced for the classification and identification of Pneumonia.Experimental results on various datasets showed that,when contrasted to other approaches,the ABO-CNN outperforms them all for the classification tasks.The proposed method exhibits superior values like 96.95%,88%,86%,and 86%for accuracy,precision,recall,and F1-score,respectively.
文摘Manual investigation of chest radiography(CXR)images by physicians is crucial for effective decision-making in COVID-19 diagnosis.However,the high demand during the pandemic necessitates auxiliary help through image analysis and machine learning techniques.This study presents a multi-threshold-based segmentation technique to probe high pixel intensity regions in CXR images of various pathologies,including normal cases.Texture information is extracted using gray co-occurrence matrix(GLCM)-based features,while vessel-like features are obtained using Frangi,Sato,and Meijering filters.Machine learning models employing Decision Tree(DT)and RandomForest(RF)approaches are designed to categorize CXR images into common lung infections,lung opacity(LO),COVID-19,and viral pneumonia(VP).The results demonstrate that the fusion of texture and vesselbased features provides an effective ML model for aiding diagnosis.The ML model validation using performance measures,including an accuracy of approximately 91.8%with an RF-based classifier,supports the usefulness of the feature set and classifier model in categorizing the four different pathologies.Furthermore,the study investigates the importance of the devised features in identifying the underlying pathology and incorporates histogrambased analysis.This analysis reveals varying natural pixel distributions in CXR images belonging to the normal,COVID-19,LO,and VP groups,motivating the incorporation of additional features such as mean,standard deviation,skewness,and percentile based on the filtered images.Notably,the study achieves a considerable improvement in categorizing COVID-19 from LO,with a true positive rate of 97%,further substantiating the effectiveness of the methodology implemented.
文摘COVID-19 is a respiratory illness caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, first identified in 2019. The primary mode of transmission is through respiratory droplets when an infected person coughs or sneezes. Symptoms can range from mild to severe, and timely diagnosis is crucial for effective treatment. Chest X-Ray imaging is one diagnostic tool used for COVID-19, and a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) is a popular technique for image classification. In this study, we proposed a CNN-based approach for detecting COVID-19 in chest X-Ray images. The model was trained on a dataset containing both COVID-19 positive and negative cases and evaluated on a separate test dataset to measure its accuracy. Our results indicated that the CNN approach could accurately detect COVID-19 in chest X-Ray images, with an overall accuracy of 97%. This approach could potentially serve as an early diagnostic tool to reduce the spread of the virus.
基金supported by Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University Researchers Supporting Project number(PNURSP2023R66)Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University,Riyadh,Saudi Arabia.
文摘The COVID-19 pandemic has devastated our daily lives,leaving horrific repercussions in its aftermath.Due to its rapid spread,it was quite difficult for medical personnel to diagnose it in such a big quantity.Patients who test positive for Covid-19 are diagnosed via a nasal PCR test.In comparison,polymerase chain reaction(PCR)findings take a few hours to a few days.The PCR test is expensive,although the government may bear expenses in certain places.Furthermore,subsets of the population resist invasive testing like swabs.Therefore,chest X-rays or Computerized Vomography(CT)scans are preferred in most cases,and more importantly,they are non-invasive,inexpensive,and provide a faster response time.Recent advances in Artificial Intelligence(AI),in combination with state-of-the-art methods,have allowed for the diagnosis of COVID-19 using chest x-rays.This article proposes a method for classifying COVID-19 as positive or negative on a decentralized dataset that is based on the Federated learning scheme.In order to build a progressive global COVID-19 classification model,two edge devices are employed to train the model on their respective localized dataset,and a 3-layered custom Convolutional Neural Network(CNN)model is used in the process of training the model,which can be deployed from the server.These two edge devices then communicate their learned parameter and weight to the server,where it aggregates and updates the globalmodel.The proposed model is trained using an image dataset that can be found on Kaggle.There are more than 13,000 X-ray images in Kaggle Database collection,from that collection 9000 images of Normal and COVID-19 positive images are used.Each edge node possesses a different number of images;edge node 1 has 3200 images,while edge node 2 has 5800.There is no association between the datasets of the various nodes that are included in the network.By doing it in this manner,each of the nodes will have access to a separate image collection that has no correlation with each other.The diagnosis of COVID-19 has become considerably more efficient with the installation of the suggested algorithm and dataset,and the findings that we have obtained are quite encouraging.
文摘A chest radiology scan can significantly aid the early diagnosis and management of COVID-19 since the virus attacks the lungs.Chest X-ray(CXR)gained much interest after the COVID-19 outbreak thanks to its rapid imaging time,widespread availability,low cost,and portability.In radiological investigations,computer-aided diagnostic tools are implemented to reduce intra-and inter-observer variability.Using lately industrialized Artificial Intelligence(AI)algorithms and radiological techniques to diagnose and classify disease is advantageous.The current study develops an automatic identification and classification model for CXR pictures using Gaussian Fil-tering based Optimized Synergic Deep Learning using Remora Optimization Algorithm(GF-OSDL-ROA).This method is inclusive of preprocessing and classification based on optimization.The data is preprocessed using Gaussian filtering(GF)to remove any extraneous noise from the image’s edges.Then,the OSDL model is applied to classify the CXRs under different severity levels based on CXR data.The learning rate of OSDL is optimized with the help of ROA for COVID-19 diagnosis showing the novelty of the work.OSDL model,applied in this study,was validated using the COVID-19 dataset.The experiments were conducted upon the proposed OSDL model,which achieved a classification accuracy of 99.83%,while the current Convolutional Neural Network achieved less classification accuracy,i.e.,98.14%.
基金supported in part by the Institute of Information and Communications Technology Planning and Evaluation(IITP)under the High-Potential Individuals Global Training Program under Grant 2021-0-01532(50%)in part by the National Research Foundation of Korea(NRF)under Grant 2020R1A2B5B01002145(50%)funded by the Korean Government through Ministry of Science and ICT(MSIT).
文摘Real-time detection of Covid-19 has definitely been the most widely-used world-wide classification problem since the start of the pandemic from 2020 until now.In the meantime,airspace opacities spreads related to lung have been of the most challenging problems in this area.A common approach to do on that score has been using chest X-ray images to better diagnose positive Covid-19 cases.Similar to most other classification problems,machine learning-based approaches have been the first/most-used candidates in this application.Many schemes based on machine/deep learning have been proposed in recent years though increasing the performance and accuracy of the system has still remained an open issue.In this paper,we develop a novel deep learning architecture to better classify the Covid-19 X-ray images.To do so,we first propose a novel multi-habitat migration artificial bee colony(MHMABC)algorithm to improve the exploitation/exploration of artificial bee colony(ABC)algorithm.After that,we optimally train the fully connected by using the proposed MHMABC algorithm to obtain better accuracy and convergence rate while reducing the execution cost.Our experiment results on Covid-19 X-ray image dataset show that the proposed deep architecture has a great performance in different important optimization parameters.Furthermore,it will be shown that the MHMABC algorithm outperforms the state-of-the-art algorithms by evaluating its performance using some wellknown benchmark datasets.
文摘In computer vision,object recognition and image categorization have proven to be difficult challenges.They have,nevertheless,generated responses to a wide range of difficult issues from a variety of fields.Convolution Neural Networks(CNNs)have recently been identified as the most widely proposed deep learning(DL)algorithms in the literature.CNNs have unquestionably delivered cutting-edge achievements,particularly in the areas of image classification,speech recognition,and video processing.However,it has been noticed that the CNN-training assignment demands a large amount of data,which is in low supply,especially in the medical industry,and as a result,the training process takes longer.In this paper,we describe an attentionaware CNN architecture for classifying chest X-ray images to diagnose Pneumonia in order to address the aforementioned difficulties.AttentionModules provide attention-aware properties to the Attention Network.The attentionaware features of various modules alter as the layers become deeper.Using a bottom-up top-down feedforward structure,the feedforward and feedback attention processes are integrated into a single feedforward process inside each attention module.In the present work,a deep neural network(DNN)is combined with an attention mechanism to test the prediction of Pneumonia disease using chest X-ray pictures.To produce attention-aware features,the suggested networkwas built by merging channel and spatial attentionmodules in DNN architecture.With this network,we worked on a publicly available Kaggle chest X-ray dataset.Extensive testing was carried out to validate the suggested model.In the experimental results,we attained an accuracy of 95.47%and an F-score of 0.92,indicating that the suggested model outperformed against the baseline models.
基金supported by“Human Resources Program in Energy Technology”of the Korea Institute of Energy Technology Evaluation and Planning (KETEP),granted financial resources from the Ministry of Trade,Industry&Energy,Republic of Korea.(No.20204010600090).
文摘X-Ray knee imaging is widely used to detect knee osteoarthritis due to ease of availability and lesser cost.However,the manual categorization of knee joint disorders is time-consuming,requires an expert person,and is costly.This article proposes a new approach to classifying knee osteoarthritis using deep learning and a whale optimization algorithm.Two pre-trained deep learning models(Efficientnet-b0 and Densenet201)have been employed for the training and feature extraction.Deep transfer learning with fixed hyperparameter values has been employed to train both selected models on the knee X-Ray images.In the next step,fusion is performed using a canonical correlation approach and obtained a feature vector that has more information than the original feature vector.After that,an improved whale optimization algorithm is developed for dimensionality reduction.The selected features are finally passed to the machine learning algorithms such as Fine-Tuned support vector machine(SVM)and neural networks for classification purposes.The experiments of the proposed framework have been conducted on the publicly available dataset and obtained the maximum accuracy of 90.1%.Also,the system is explained using Explainable Artificial Intelligence(XAI)technique called occlusion,and results are compared with recent research.Based on the results compared with recent techniques,it is shown that the proposed method’s accuracy significantly improved.
文摘Covid-19 is a deadly virus that is rapidly spread around the world towards the end of the 2020.The consequences of this virus are quite frightening,especially when accompanied by an underlying disease.The novelty of the virus,the constant emergence of different variants and its rapid spread have a negative impact on the control and treatment process.Although the new test kits provide almost certain results,chest X-rays are extremely important to detect the progression and degree of the disease.In addition to the Covid-19 virus,pneumonia and harmless opacity of the lungs also complicate the diagnosis.Considering the negative results caused by the virus and the treatment costs,the importance of fast and accurate diagnosis is clearly seen.In this context,deep learning methods appear as an extremely popular approach.In this study,a hybrid model design with superior properties of convolutional neural networks is presented to correctly classify the Covid-19 disease.In addition,in order to contribute to the literature,a suitable dataset with balanced case numbers that can be used in all artificial intelligence classification studies is presented.With this ensemble model design,quite remarkable results are obtained for the diagnosis of three and four-class Covid-19.The proposed model can classify normal,pneumonia,and Covid-19 with 92.6%accuracy and 82.6%for normal,pneumonia,Covid-19,and lung opacity.
文摘The quick spread of the CoronavirusDisease(COVID-19)infection around the world considered a real danger for global health.The biological structure and symptoms of COVID-19 are similar to other viral chest maladies,which makes it challenging and a big issue to improve approaches for efficient identification of COVID-19 disease.In this study,an automatic prediction of COVID-19 identification is proposed to automatically discriminate between healthy and COVID-19 infected subjects in X-ray images using two successful moderns are traditional machine learning methods(e.g.,artificial neural network(ANN),support vector machine(SVM),linear kernel and radial basis function(RBF),k-nearest neighbor(k-NN),Decision Tree(DT),andCN2 rule inducer techniques)and deep learningmodels(e.g.,MobileNets V2,ResNet50,GoogleNet,DarkNet andXception).A largeX-ray dataset has been created and developed,namely the COVID-19 vs.Normal(400 healthy cases,and 400 COVID cases).To the best of our knowledge,it is currently the largest publicly accessible COVID-19 dataset with the largest number of X-ray images of confirmed COVID-19 infection cases.Based on the results obtained from the experiments,it can be concluded that all the models performed well,deep learning models had achieved the optimum accuracy of 98.8%in ResNet50 model.In comparison,in traditional machine learning techniques, the SVM demonstrated the best result for an accuracy of 95% and RBFaccuracy 94% for the prediction of coronavirus disease 2019.
文摘The latest studies with radiological imaging techniques indicate that X-ray images provide valuable details on the Coronavirus disease 2019(COVID-19).The usage of sophisticated artificial intelligence technology(AI)and the radiological images can help in diagnosing the disease reliably and addressing the problem of the shortage of trained doctors in remote villages.In this research,the automated diagnosis of Coronavirus disease was performed using a dataset of X-ray images of patients with severe bacterial pneumonia,reported COVID-19 disease,and normal cases.The goal of the study is to analyze the achievements for medical image recognition of state-of-the-art neural networking architectures.Transfer Learning technique has been implemented in this work.Transfer learning is an ambitious task,but it results in impressive outcomes for identifying distinct patterns in tiny datasets of medical images.The findings indicate that deep learning with X-ray imagery could retrieve important biomarkers relevant for COVID-19 disease detection.Since all diagnostic measures show failure levels that pose questions,the scientific profession should determine the probability of integration of X-rays with the clinical treatment,utilizing the results.The proposed model achieved 96.73%accuracy outperforming the ResNet50 and traditional Resnet18 models.Based on our findings,the proposed system can help the specialist doctors in making verdicts for COVID-19 detection.
文摘Chronological age estimation using panoramic dental X-ray images is an essential task in forensic sciences.Various statistical approaches have proposed by considering the teeth and mandible.However,building automated dental age estimation based on machine learning techniques needs more research efforts.In this paper,an automated dental age estimation is proposed using transfer learning.In the proposed approach,features are extracted using two deep neural networks namely,AlexNet and ResNet.Several classifiers are proposed to perform the classification task including decision tree,k-nearest neighbor,linear discriminant,and support vector machine.The proposed approach is evaluated using a number of suitable performance metrics using a dataset that contains 1429 dental X-ray images.The obtained results show that the proposed approach has a promising performance.
基金Science and technology plan project of Xi'an,Grant/Award Number:GXYD17.12Open Fund of Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Network Data Intelligent Processing,Grant/Award Number:XUPT-KLND(201802,201803)Key Research and Development Program of Shaanxi,Grant/Award Number:2019GY-021。
文摘Fracture is one of the most common and unexpected traumas.If not treated in time,it may cause serious consequences such as joint stiffness,traumatic arthritis,and nerve injury.Using computer vision technology to detect fractures can reduce the workload and misdiagnosis of fractures and also improve the fracture detection speed.However,there are still some problems in sternum fracture detection,such as the low detection rate of small and occult fractures.In this work,the authors have constructed a dataset with 1227 labelled X-ray images for sternum fracture detection.The authors designed a fully automatic fracture detection model based on a deep convolution neural network(CNN).The authors used cascade R-CNN,attention mechanism,and atrous convolution to optimise the detection of small fractures in a large X-ray image with big local variations.The authors compared the detection results of YOLOv5 model,cascade R-CNN and other state-of-the-art models.The authors found that the convolution neural network based on cascade and attention mechanism models has a better detection effect and arrives at an mAP of 0.71,which is much better than using the YOLOv5 model(mAP=0.44)and cascade R-CNN(mAP=0.55).
基金supported in part by The National Key Research and Development Program of China(2018YFC2001302)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(61976209)+1 种基金CAS International Collaboration Key Project(173211KYSB20190024)Strategic Priority Research Program of CAS(XDB32040000)。
文摘Structure reconstruction of 3 D anatomy from biplanar X-ray images is a challenging topic. Traditionally, the elastic-model-based method was used to reconstruct 3 D shapes by deforming the control points on the elastic mesh. However, the reconstructed shape is not smooth because the limited control points are only distributed on the edge of the elastic mesh.Alternatively, statistical-model-based methods, which include shape-model-based and intensity-model-based methods, are introduced due to their smooth reconstruction. However, both suffer from limitations. With the shape-model-based method, only the boundary profile is considered, leading to the loss of valid intensity information. For the intensity-based-method, the computation speed is slow because it needs to calculate the intensity distribution in each iteration. To address these issues, we propose a new reconstruction method using X-ray images and a specimen’s CT data. Specifically, the CT data provides both the shape mesh and the intensity model of the vertebra. Intensity model is used to generate the deformation field from X-ray images, while the shape model is used to generate the patient specific model by applying the calculated deformation field.Experiments on the public synthetic dataset and clinical dataset show that the average reconstruction errors are 1.1 mm and1.2 mm, separately. The average reconstruction time is 3 minutes.
文摘Like the Covid-19 pandemic,smallpox virus infection broke out in the last century,wherein 500 million deaths were reported along with enormous economic loss.But unlike smallpox,the Covid-19 recorded a low exponential infection rate and mortality rate due to advancement inmedical aid and diagnostics.Data analytics,machine learning,and automation techniques can help in early diagnostics and supporting treatments of many reported patients.This paper proposes a robust and efficient methodology for the early detection of COVID-19 from Chest X-Ray scans utilizing enhanced deep learning techniques.Our study suggests that using the Prediction and Deconvolutional Modules in combination with the SSD architecture can improve the performance of the model trained at this task.We used a publicly open CXR image dataset and implemented the detectionmodelwith task-specific pre-processing and near 80:20 split.This achieved a competitive specificity of 0.9474 and a sensibility/accuracy of 0.9597,which shall help better decision-making for various aspects of identification and treat the infection.
基金supported in part by the Coordenacao de Aperfeicoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior-Brasil(CAPES)(001)the Brazilian National Council for Research and Development(CNPq)(431709/2018-1,311973/2018-3,304315/2017-6,430274/2018-1)。
文摘The new coronavirus(COVID-19),declared by the World Health Organization as a pandemic,has infected more than 1 million people and killed more than 50 thousand.An infection caused by COVID-19 can develop into pneumonia,which can be detected by a chest X-ray exam and should be treated appropriately.In this work,we propose an automatic detection method for COVID-19 infection based on chest X-ray images.The datasets constructed for this study are composed of194 X-ray images of patients diagnosed with coronavirus and 194 X-ray images of healthy patients.Since few images of patients with COVID-19 are publicly available,we apply the concept of transfer learning for this task.We use different architectures of convolutional neural networks(CNNs)trained on Image Net,and adapt them to behave as feature extractors for the X-ray images.Then,the CNNs are combined with consolidated machine learning methods,such as k-Nearest Neighbor,Bayes,Random Forest,multilayer perceptron(MLP),and support vector machine(SVM).The results show that,for one of the datasets,the extractor-classifier pair with the best performance is the Mobile Net architecture with the SVM classifier using a linear kernel,which achieves an accuracy and an F1-score of 98.5%.For the other dataset,the best pair is Dense Net201 with MLP,achieving an accuracy and an F1-score of 95.6%.Thus,the proposed approach demonstrates efficiency in detecting COVID-19 in X-ray images.
文摘This paper demonstrates empirical research on using convolutional neural networks(CNN)of deep learning techniques to classify X-rays of COVID-19 patients versus normal patients by feature extraction.Feature extraction is one of the most significant phases for classifying medical X-rays radiography that requires inclusive domain knowledge.In this study,CNN architectures such as VGG-16,VGG-19,RestNet50,RestNet18 are compared,and an optimized model for feature extraction in X-ray images from various domains invol-ving several classes is proposed.An X-ray radiography classifier with TensorFlow GPU is created executing CNN architectures and our proposed optimized model for classifying COVID-19(Negative or Positive).Then,2,134 X-rays of normal patients and COVID-19 patients generated by an existing open-source online dataset were labeled to train the optimized models.Among those,the optimized model architecture classifier technique achieves higher accuracy(0.97)than four other models,specifically VGG-16,VGG-19,RestNet18,and RestNet50(0.96,0.72,0.91,and 0.93,respectively).Therefore,this study will enable radiol-ogists to more efficiently and effectively classify a patient’s coronavirus disease.