Ranjbarzadeh, Ramin ORCID: 0000-0001-7065-9060, Jafarzadeh Ghoushchi, Saeid ORCID: 0000-0003-3665-9010, Bendechache, Malika ORCID: 0000-0003-0069-1860, Amirabadi, Amir, Ab Rahman, Mohd Nizam ORCID: 0000-0002-7053-4396, Baseri Saadi, Soroush, Aghamohammadi, Amirhossein and Forooshani, Mersedeh Kooshki (2021) Lung infection segmentation for COVID-19 pneumonia based on a cascade convolutional network from CT images. BioMed Research International, 2021 . ISSN 2314-6133
Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic is a global, national, and local public health which causing a significant outbreak in all countries and regions for both males and females around the world. Automated detection of lung infections and their boundaries from medical images offers a great potential to augment the patient treatment healthcare strategies for tackling COVID-19 and its impacts. Detecting this disease from lung CT scan images is perhaps one of the fastest ways to diagnose the patients. However, finding the presence of infected tissues and segment them from CT slices faces numerous challenges, including similar adjacent tissues, vague boundary, and erratic infections. To overcome the mentioned problems, we propose a two-route convolutional neural network (CNN) by extracting global and local features for detecting and classifying COVID-19 infection from CT images. Each pixel from the image is classified into normal and infected tissue. For improving the classification accuracy, we used two different strategies including Fuzzy c-mean clustering and local directional pattern (LDN) encoding methods to represent the input image differently. This allows us to find a more complex pattern from the image. To overcome the overfitting problems due to small samples, an augmentation approach is utilized. The results demonstrated that the proposed framework achieved Precision 96%, Recall 97%, F-score, average surface distance (ASD) of 2.8\pm0.3\ mm and volume overlap error (VOE) of 5.6\pm1.2%.
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Item Type: | Article (Published) |
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Refereed: | Yes |
Additional Information: | Article Number 5544742 |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | Deep learning; CNN; Lung infection; COVID-19; Lung segmentation |
Subjects: | Computer Science > Artificial intelligence Computer Science > Machine learning |
DCU Faculties and Centres: | DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Engineering and Computing > School of Computing Research Institutes and Centres > Lero: The Irish Software Engineering Research Centre Research Institutes and Centres > ADAPT |
Publisher: | Hindawi |
Official URL: | https://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/5544742 |
Copyright Information: | 2021 The Authors Open Access (CC-BY-4.0) |
ID Code: | 25821 |
Deposited On: | 30 Apr 2021 14:11 by Malika Bendechache . Last Modified 30 Apr 2021 14:11 |
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