Multimedia Information Processing Lab, Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Chosun University, Gwangju, South Korea.
Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University, Al-Kharj, Saudi Arabia.
Sci Rep. 2023 Apr 23;13(1):6601. doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-33614-0.
A COVID-19, caused by SARS-CoV-2, has been declared a global pandemic by WHO. It first appeared in China at the end of 2019 and quickly spread throughout the world. During the third layer, it became more critical. COVID-19 spread is extremely difficult to control, and a huge number of suspected cases must be screened for a cure as soon as possible. COVID-19 laboratory testing takes time and can result in significant false negatives. To combat COVID-19, reliable, accurate and fast methods are urgently needed. The commonly used Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction has a low sensitivity of approximately 60% to 70%, and sometimes even produces negative results. Computer Tomography (CT) has been observed to be a subtle approach to detecting COVID-19, and it may be the best screening method. The scanned image's quality, which is impacted by motion-induced Poisson or Impulse noise, is vital. In order to improve the quality of the acquired image for post segmentation, a novel Impulse and Poisson noise reduction method employing boundary division max/min intensities elimination along with an adaptive window size mechanism is proposed. In the second phase, a number of CNN techniques are explored for detecting COVID-19 from CT images and an Assessment Fusion Based model is proposed to predict the result. The AFM combines the results for cutting-edge CNN architectures and generates a final prediction based on choices. The empirical results demonstrate that our proposed method performs extensively and is extremely useful in actual diagnostic situations.
一种由严重急性呼吸系统综合征冠状病毒 2 型(SARS-CoV-2)引起的 COVID-19 已被世界卫生组织宣布为全球大流行。它于 2019 年底在中国首次出现,并迅速蔓延至全球。在第三阶段,情况变得更加危急。COVID-19 的传播极难控制,必须对大量疑似病例进行筛选,以尽快找到治疗方法。COVID-19 的实验室检测需要时间,并且可能会导致大量的假阴性结果。为了对抗 COVID-19,迫切需要可靠、准确和快速的方法。常用的逆转录聚合酶链反应(RT-PCR)的灵敏度约为 60%至 70%,有时甚至会产生阴性结果。计算机断层扫描(CT)已被观察到是一种检测 COVID-19 的微妙方法,它可能是最好的筛选方法。扫描图像的质量受到运动诱导的泊松或脉冲噪声的影响,这一点至关重要。为了提高分割后的图像质量,提出了一种新的脉冲和泊松噪声减少方法,该方法采用边界划分最大/最小强度消除以及自适应窗口大小机制。在第二阶段,探索了几种从 CT 图像中检测 COVID-19 的卷积神经网络(CNN)技术,并提出了一种基于评估融合的模型来预测结果。AFM 结合了前沿 CNN 架构的结果,并根据选择生成最终预测。实验结果表明,我们提出的方法具有广泛的适用性,在实际诊断情况下非常有用。