Department of Information Science and Engineering, Bannari Amman Institute of Technology, Sathyamangalam, Tamil Nadu 638401, India.
Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Ramapuram, Chennai, 600089 Tamil Nadu, India.
Biomed Res Int. 2022 Aug 23;2022:1289221. doi: 10.1155/2022/1289221. eCollection 2022.
As an epidemic, COVID-19's core test instrument still has serious flaws. To improve the present condition, all capabilities and tools available in this field are being used to combat the pandemic. Because of the contagious characteristics of the unique coronavirus (COVID-19) infection, an overwhelming comparison with patients queues up for pulmonary X-rays, overloading physicians and radiology and significantly impacting the quality of care, diagnosis, and outbreak prevention. Given the scarcity of clinical services such as intensive care and motorized ventilation systems in the aspect of this vastly transmissible ailment, it is critical to categorize patients as per their risk categories. This research describes a novel use of the deep convolutional neural network (CNN) technique to COVID-19 illness assessment seriousness. Utilizing chest X-ray images as contribution, an unsupervised DCNN model is constructed and suggested to split COVID-19 individuals into four seriousness classrooms: low, medium, serious, and crucial with an accuracy level of 96 percent. The efficiency of the DCNN model developed with the proposed methodology is demonstrated by empirical findings on a suitably huge sum of chest X-ray scans. To the evidence relating, it is the first COVID-19 disease incidence evaluation research with four different phases, to use a reasonably high number of X-ray images dataset and a DCNN with nearly all hyperparameters dynamically adjusted by the variable selection optimization task.
作为一种流行病,COVID-19 的核心检测仪器仍然存在严重缺陷。为了改善现状,该领域的所有能力和工具都被用于抗击这一流行病。由于独特的冠状病毒(COVID-19)感染的传染性特征,与排队进行肺部 X 光检查的患者相比,医生和放射科的工作量过大,严重影响了护理质量、诊断和疫情防控。鉴于这种高传染性疾病在重症监护和机动通风系统等临床服务方面的稀缺性,根据患者的风险类别对其进行分类至关重要。本研究描述了一种使用深度卷积神经网络(CNN)技术对 COVID-19 疾病严重程度进行评估的新方法。利用胸部 X 光图像作为贡献,构建并提出了一种无监督 DCNN 模型,将 COVID-19 个体分为四个严重程度类别:低、中、严重和危急,准确率为 96%。所提出方法开发的 DCNN 模型的效率通过对大量胸部 X 光扫描的实证研究得到了证明。就现有证据而言,这是第一个使用四个不同阶段、使用数量相当大的 X 光图像数据集和几乎所有超参数都由变量选择优化任务动态调整的 DCNN 对 COVID-19 疾病发生率进行评估的研究。