A COVID-19 Detection Model Based on Convolutional Neural Network and Residual Learning

Amodel that can obtain rapid and accurate detection of coronavirus disease 2019(COVID-19)plays a significant role in treating and preventing the spread of disease transmission.However,designing such amodel that can balance the detection accuracy andweight parameters ofmemorywell to deploy a mobile device is challenging.Taking this point into account,this paper fuses the convolutional neural network and residual learning operations to build a multi-class classification model,which improves COVID-19 pneumonia detection performance and keeps a trade-off between the weight parameters and accuracy.The convolutional neural network can extract the COVID-19 feature information by repeated convolutional operations.The residual learning operations alleviate the gradient problems caused by stacking convolutional layers and enhance the ability of feature extraction.The ability further enables the proposed model to acquire effective feature information at a lowcost,which canmake ourmodel keep smallweight parameters.Extensive validation and comparison with other models of COVID-19 pneumonia detection on the well-known COVIDx dataset show that(1)the sensitivity of COVID-19 pneumonia detection is improved from 88.2%(non-COVID-19)and 77.5%(COVID-19)to 95.3%(non-COVID-19)and 96.5%(COVID-19),respectively.The positive predictive value is also respectively increased from72.8%(non-COVID-19)and 89.0%(COVID-19)to 88.8%(non-COVID-19)and 95.1%(COVID-19).(2)Compared with the weight parameters of the COVIDNet-small network,the value of the proposed model is 13 M,which is slightly higher than that(11.37 M)of the COVIDNet-small network.But,the corresponding accuracy is improved from 85.2%to 93.0%.The above results illustrate the proposed model can gain an efficient balance between accuracy and weight parameters.

De-Noising Brain MRI Images by Mixing Concatenation and Residual Learning(MCR)

Brain magnetic resonance images(MRI)are used to diagnose the different diseases of the brain,such as swelling and tumor detection.The quality of the brain MR images is degraded by different noises,usually salt&pepper and Gaussian noises,which are added to the MR images during the acquisition process.In the presence of these noises,medical experts are facing problems in diagnosing diseases from noisy brain MR images.Therefore,we have proposed a de-noising method by mixing concatenation,and residual deep learning techniques called the MCR de-noising method.Our proposed MCR method is to eliminate salt&pepper and gaussian noises as much as possible from the brain MRI images.The MCR method has been trained and tested on the noise quantity levels 2%to 20%for both salt&pepper and gaussian noise.The experiments have been done on publically available brain MRI image datasets,which can easily be accessible in the experiments and result section.The Structure Similarity Index Measure(SSIM)and Peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio(PSNR)calculate the similarity score between the denoised images by the proposed MCR method and the original clean images.Also,the Mean Squared Error(MSE)measures the error or difference between generated denoised and the original images.The proposed MCR denoising method has a 0.9763 SSIM score,84.3182 PSNR,and 0.0004 MSE for salt&pepper noise;similarly,0.7402 SSIM score,72.7601 PSNR,and 0.0041 MSE for Gaussian noise at the highest level of 20%noise.In the end,we have compared the MCR method with the state-of-the-art de-noising filters such as median and wiener de-noising filters.

Mixed Noise Removal by Residual Learning of Deep CNN

Due to the huge difference of noise distribution,the result of a mixture of multiple noises becomes very complicated.Under normal circumstances,the most common type of mixed noise is to add impulse noise(IN)and then white Gaussian noise(AWGN).From the reduction of cascaded IN and AWGN to the latest sparse representation,a great deal of methods has been proposed to reduce this form of mixed noise.However,when the mixed noise is very strong,most methods often produce a lot of artifacts.In order to solve the above problems,we propose a method based on residual learning for the removal of AWGN-IN noise in this paper.By training,our model can obtain stable nonlinear mapping from the images with mixed noise to the clean images.After a series of experiments under different noise settings,the results show that our method is obviously better than the traditional sparse representation and patch based method.Meanwhile,the time of model training and image denoising is greatly reduced.

Defending Adversarial Examples by a Clipped Residual U-Net Model

Deep learning-based systems have succeeded in many computer vision tasks.However,it is found that the latest study indicates that these systems are in danger in the presence of adversarial attacks.These attacks can quickly spoil deep learning models,e.g.,different convolutional neural networks(CNNs),used in various computer vision tasks from image classification to object detection.The adversarial examples are carefully designed by injecting a slight perturbation into the clean images.The proposed CRU-Net defense model is inspired by state-of-the-art defense mechanisms such as MagNet defense,Generative Adversarial Net-work Defense,Deep Regret Analytic Generative Adversarial Networks Defense,Deep Denoising Sparse Autoencoder Defense,and Condtional Generattive Adversarial Network Defense.We have experimentally proved that our approach is better than previous defensive techniques.Our proposed CRU-Net model maps the adversarial image examples into clean images by eliminating the adversarial perturbation.The proposed defensive approach is based on residual and U-Net learning.Many experiments are done on the datasets MNIST and CIFAR10 to prove that our proposed CRU-Net defense model prevents adversarial example attacks in WhiteBox and BlackBox settings and improves the robustness of the deep learning algorithms especially in the computer visionfield.We have also reported similarity(SSIM and PSNR)between the original and restored clean image examples by the proposed CRU-Net defense model.

A station-data-based model residual machine learning method for fine-grained meteorological grid prediction

Fine-grained weather forecasting data,i.e.,the grid data with high-resolution,have attracted increasing attention in recent years,especially for some specific applications such as the Winter Olympic Games.Although European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts(ECMWF)provides grid prediction up to 240 hours,the coarse data are unable to meet high requirements of these major events.In this paper,we propose a method,called model residual machine learning(MRML),to generate grid prediction with high-resolution based on high-precision stations forecasting.MRML applies model output machine learning(MOML)for stations forecasting.Subsequently,MRML utilizes these forecasts to improve the quality of the grid data by fitting a machine learning(ML)model to the residuals.We demonstrate that MRML achieves high capability at diverse meteorological elements,specifically,temperature,relative humidity,and wind speed.In addition,MRML could be easily extended to other post-processing methods by invoking different techniques.In our experiments,MRML outperforms the traditional downscaling methods such as piecewise linear interpolation(PLI)on the testing data.

Image Super-Resolution Reconstruction Based on Dual Residual Network

Research shows that deep learning algorithms can ffectivelyimprove a single image's super-resolution quality.However,if the algorithmis solely focused on increasing network depth and the desired result is not achieved,difficulties in the training process are more likely to arise.Simultaneously,the function space that can be transferred from a iow-resolution image to a high-resolution image is enormous,making finding a satisfactory solution difficult.In this paper,we propose a deep learning method for single image super-resolution.The MDRN network framework uses multi-scale residual blocks and dual learning to fully acquire features in low-resolution images.Finally,these features will be sent to the image reconstruction module torestore high-quality images.The function space is constrained by the closedloop formed by dual learning,which provides additional supervision forthe super-resolution reconstruction of the image.The up-sampling processincludes residual blocks with short-hop connections,so that the networkfocuses on learning high-frequency information,and strives to reconstructimages with richer feature details.The experimental results of ×4 and ×8 super-resolution reconstruction of the image show that the quality of thereconstructed image with this method is better than some existing experimental results of image super-resolution reconstruction in subjective visual ffectsand objective evaluation indicators.

A Data-Driven Rutting Depth Short-Time Prediction Model With Metaheuristic Optimization for Asphalt Pavements Based on RIOHTrack

Rutting of asphalt pavements is a crucial design criterion in various pavement design guides. A good road transportation base can provide security for the transportation of oil and gas in road transportation. This study attempts to develop a robust artificial intelligence model to estimate different asphalt pavements’ rutting depth clips, temperature, and load axes as primary characteristics. The experiment data were obtained from19 asphalt pavements with different crude oil sources on a 2.038km long full-scale field accelerated pavement test track(Road Track Institute, RIOHTrack) in Tongzhou, Beijing. In addition,this paper also proposes to build complex networks with different pavement rutting depths through complex network methods and the Louvain algorithm for community detection. The most critical structural elements can be selected from different asphalt pavement rutting data, and similar structural elements can be found. An extreme learning machine algorithm with residual correction(RELM) is designed and optimized using an independent adaptive particle swarm algorithm. The experimental results of the proposed method are compared with several classical machine learning algorithms, with predictions of average root mean squared error(MSE), average mean absolute error(MAE), and a verage mean absolute percentage error(MAPE) for 19 asphalt pavements reaching 1.742, 1.363, and 1.94% respectively. The experiments demonstrate that the RELM algorithm has an advantage over classical machine learning methods in dealing with non-linear problems in road engineering. Notably, the method ensures the adaptation of the simulated environment to different levels of abstraction through the cognitive analysis of the production environment parameters. It is a promising alternative method that facilitates the rapid assessment of pavement conditions and could be applied in the future to production processes in the oil and gas industry.

Low-frequency swell noise suppression based on U-Net

Low-frequency band-shaped swell noise with strong amplitude is common in marine seismic data.The conventional high-pass fi ltering algorithm widely used to suppress swell noise often results in serious damage of effective information.This paper introduces the residual learning strategy of denoising convolutional neural network(DnCNN)into a U-shaped convolutional neural network(U-Net)to develop a new U-Net with more generalization,which can eliminate low-frequency swell noise with high precision.The results of both model date tests and real data processing show that the new U-Net is capable of effi cient learning and high-precision noise removal,and can avoid the overfi tting problem which is very common in conventional neural network methods.This new U-Net can also be generalized to some extent and can eff ectively preserve low-frequency eff ective information.Compared with the conventional high-pass fi ltering method commonly used in the industry,the new U-Net can eliminate low-frequency swell noise with higher precision while eff ectively preserving low-frequency eff ective information,which is of great signifi cance for subsequent processing such as amplitude-preserving imaging and full waveform inversion.

Kernel Granulometric Texture Analysis and Light RES-ASPP-UNET Classification for Covid-19 Detection

This research article proposes an automatic frame work for detectingCOVID -19 at the early stage using chest X-ray image. It is an undeniable factthat coronovirus is a serious disease but the early detection of the virus presentin human bodies can save lives. In recent times, there are so many research solutions that have been presented for early detection, but there is still a lack in needof right and even rich technology for its early detection. The proposed deeplearning model analysis the pixels of every image and adjudges the presence ofvirus. The classifier is designed in such a way so that, it automatically detectsthe virus present in lungs using chest image. This approach uses an imagetexture analysis technique called granulometric mathematical model. Selectedfeatures are heuristically processed for optimization using novel multi scaling deep learning called light weight residual–atrous spatial pyramid pooling(LightRES-ASPP-Unet) Unet model. The proposed deep LightRES-ASPPUnet technique has a higher level of contracting solution by extracting majorlevel of image features. Moreover, the corona virus has been detected usinghigh resolution output. In the framework, atrous spatial pyramid pooling(ASPP) method is employed at its bottom level for incorporating the deepmulti scale features in to the discriminative mode. The architectural workingstarts from the selecting the features from the image using granulometricmathematical model and the selected features are optimized using LightRESASPP-Unet. ASPP in the analysis of images has performed better than theexisting Unet model. The proposed algorithm has achieved 99.6% of accuracyin detecting the virus at its early stage.

Low-light image enhancement algorithm using a residual network with semantic information

Aiming to solve the poor performance of low illumination enhancement algorithms on uneven illumination images,a low-light image enhancement(LIME)algorithm based on a residual network was proposed.The algorithm constructs a deep network that uses residual modules to extract image feature information and semantic modules to extract image semantic information from different levels.Moreover,a composite loss function was also designed for the process of low illumination image enhancement,which dynamically evaluated the loss of an enhanced image from three factors of color,structure,and gradient.It ensures that the model can correctly enhance the image features according to the image semantics,so that the enhancement results are more in line with the human visual experience.Experimental results show that compared with the state-of-the-art algorithms,the semantic-driven residual low-light network(SRLLN)can effectively improve the quality of low illumination images,and achieve better subjective and objective evaluation indexes on different types of images.

CP-Net:Channel Attention and Pixel Attention Network for Single Image Dehazing

An end-to-end channel attention and pixel attention network(CP-Net)is proposed to produce dehazed image directly in the paper.The CP-Net structure contains three critical components.Firstly,the double attention(DA)module consisting of channel attention(CA)and pixel attention(PA).Different channel features contain different levels of important information,and CA can give more weight to relevant information,so the network can learn more useful information.Meanwhile,haze is unevenly distributed on different pixels,and PA is able to filter out haze with varying weights for different pixels.It sums the outputs of the two attention modules to improve further feature representation which contributes to better dehazing result.Secondly,local residual learning and DA module constitute another important component,namely basic block structure.Local residual learning can transfer the feature information in the shallow part of the network to the deep part of the network through multiple local residual connections and enhance the expressive ability of CP-Net.Thirdly,CP-Net mainly uses its core component,DA module,to automatically assign different weights to different features to achieve satisfactory dehazing effect.The experiment results on synthetic datasets and real hazy images indicate that many state-of-the-art single image dehazing methods have been surpassed by the CP-Net both quantitatively and qualitatively.