Version 1
: Received: 2 June 2020 / Approved: 4 June 2020 / Online: 4 June 2020 (08:29:03 CEST)
Version 2
: Received: 4 July 2020 / Approved: 5 July 2020 / Online: 5 July 2020 (05:31:44 CEST)
Version 3
: Received: 1 September 2020 / Approved: 5 September 2020 / Online: 5 September 2020 (03:36:20 CEST)
Rahimzadeh, M.; Attar, A.; Sakhaei, S. M. A Fully Automated Deep Learning-Based Network for Detecting COVID-19 from a New and Large Lung CT Scan Dataset. Biomedical Signal Processing and Control, 2021, 68, 102588. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bspc.2021.102588.
Rahimzadeh, M.; Attar, A.; Sakhaei, S. M. A Fully Automated Deep Learning-Based Network for Detecting COVID-19 from a New and Large Lung CT Scan Dataset. Biomedical Signal Processing and Control, 2021, 68, 102588. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bspc.2021.102588.
Rahimzadeh, M.; Attar, A.; Sakhaei, S. M. A Fully Automated Deep Learning-Based Network for Detecting COVID-19 from a New and Large Lung CT Scan Dataset. Biomedical Signal Processing and Control, 2021, 68, 102588. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bspc.2021.102588.
Rahimzadeh, M.; Attar, A.; Sakhaei, S. M. A Fully Automated Deep Learning-Based Network for Detecting COVID-19 from a New and Large Lung CT Scan Dataset. Biomedical Signal Processing and Control, 2021, 68, 102588. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bspc.2021.102588.
Abstract
COVID-19 is a severe global problem, and AI can play a significant role in preventing losses by monitoring and detecting infected persons in early-stage. This paper aims to propose a high-speed and accurate fully-automated method to detect COVID-19 from the patient's CT scan images. We introduce a new dataset that contains 48260 CT scan images from 282 normal persons and 15589 images from 95 patients with COVID-19 infections. At the first stage, this system runs our proposed image processing algorithm to discard those CT images that inside the lung is not properly visible in them. This action helps to reduce the processing time and false detections. At the next stage, we introduce a novel method for increasing the classification accuracy of convolutional networks. We implemented our method using the ResNet50V2 network and a modified feature pyramid network alongside our designed architecture for classifying the selected CT images into COVID-19 or normal with higher accuracy than other models. After running these two phases, the system determines the condition of the patient using a selected threshold. We are the first to evaluate our system in two different ways. In the single image classification stage, our model achieved 98.49% accuracy on more than 7996 test images. At the patient identification phase, the system correctly identified almost 234 of 245 patients with high speed. We also investigate the classified images with the Grad-CAM algorithm to indicate the area of infections in images and evaluate our model classification correctness.
Deep learning; Convolutional Neural Network; Coronavirus; COVID-19; radiology; CT scan; Medical image analysis; Automatic medical diagnosis; lung CT scan dataset
Subject
Computer Science and Mathematics, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Copyright:
This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Received:
5 September 2020
Commenter:
Mohammad Rahimzadeh
Commenter's Conflict of Interests:
Author
Comment:
Dear Editor, In this version, we have added some tables and figures and also modified the material and methods section to better explain our obtained results.
Commenter: Mohammad Rahimzadeh
Commenter's Conflict of Interests: Author
In this version, we have added some tables and figures and also modified
the material and methods section to better explain our obtained results.
Regards
Mohammad Rahimzadeh