Muhammad Ghulam, Shamim Hossain M
Chair of Pervasive and Mobile Computing, King Saud University, Riyadh 11543, Saudi Arabia.
Department of Computer Engineering, College of Computer and Information Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh 11543, Saudi Arabia.
Inf Fusion. 2021 Aug;72:80-88. doi: 10.1016/j.inffus.2021.02.013. Epub 2021 Feb 25.
COVID-19 or related viral pandemics should be detected and managed without hesitation, since the virus spreads very rapidly. Often with insufficient human and electronic resources, patients need to be checked from stable patients using vital signs, radiographic photographs, or ultrasound images. Vital signs do not often offer the right outcome, and radiographic photos have a variety of other problems. Lung ultrasound (LUS) images can provide good screening without a lot of complications. This paper suggests a model of a convolutionary neural network (CNN) that has fewer learning parameters but can achieve strong accuracy. The model has five main blocks or layers of convolution connectors. A multi-layer fusion functionality of each block is proposed to improve the efficiency of the COVID-19 screening method utilizing the proposed model. Experiments are conducted using freely accessible LUS photographs and video datasets. The proposed fusion method has 92.5% precision, 91.8% accuracy, and 93.2% retrieval using the data collection. These efficiency metric levels are considerably higher than those used in any of the state-of-the-art CNN versions.
应毫不犹豫地检测和管理新冠病毒(COVID-19)或相关病毒性大流行,因为病毒传播非常迅速。由于人力和电子资源往往不足,需要使用生命体征、X光照片或超声图像对病情稳定的患者进行检查。生命体征往往无法提供正确的结果,而X光照片则存在各种其他问题。肺部超声(LUS)图像可以在没有很多并发症的情况下提供良好的筛查。本文提出了一种卷积神经网络(CNN)模型,该模型学习参数较少,但能实现较高的准确率。该模型有五个主要的卷积连接块或层。建议每个块采用多层融合功能,以提高利用所提出模型的COVID-19筛查方法的效率。使用可免费获取的LUS照片和视频数据集进行实验。所提出的融合方法在数据收集方面的精确率为92.5%,准确率为91.8%,召回率为93.2%。这些效率指标水平明显高于任何现有最先进的CNN版本所使用的水平。