Department of Telecommunications Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Guilan, Rasht, Iran.
Faculty of Industrial Engineering, Urmia University of Technology, Urmia, Iran.
Biomed Res Int. 2021 Apr 15;2021:5544742. doi: 10.1155/2021/5544742. eCollection 2021.
The COVID-19 pandemic is a global, national, and local public health concern which has caused 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 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 eliminate these obstacles, 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 the normal and infected tissues. For improving the classification accuracy, we used two different strategies including fuzzy -means clustering and local directional pattern (LDN) encoding methods to represent the input image differently. This allows us to find 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%, score, average surface distance (ASD) of 2.8 ± 0.3 mm, and volume overlap error (VOE) of 5.6 ± 1.2%.
COVID-19 大流行是一个全球性、全国性和地方性的公共卫生问题,它在世界范围内导致了所有国家和地区的男性和女性的重大疫情爆发。从医学图像中自动检测肺部感染及其边界为解决 COVID-19 及其影响的患者治疗医疗策略提供了巨大的潜力。从肺部 CT 扫描图像中检测这种疾病可能是诊断患者最快的方法之一。然而,从 CT 切片中找到受感染的组织并将其分割开来面临着许多挑战,包括相似的相邻组织、模糊的边界和不规则的感染。为了消除这些障碍,我们提出了一种双通道卷积神经网络(CNN),通过提取全局和局部特征来从 CT 图像中检测和分类 COVID-19 感染。图像中的每个像素都被分类为正常组织和感染组织。为了提高分类精度,我们使用了两种不同的策略,包括模糊均值聚类和局部方向模式(LDN)编码方法,以不同的方式表示输入图像。这使我们能够从图像中找到更复杂的模式。为了克服由于样本量小而导致的过拟合问题,我们采用了扩充方法。结果表明,所提出的框架达到了 96%的精度、97%的召回率、95.4%的得分、平均表面距离(ASD)为 2.8±0.3mm 和体积重叠误差(VOE)为 5.6±1.2%。
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