A Deep Learning System to Screen Novel Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pneumonia

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The real-time reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) detection of viral RNA from sputum or nasopharyngeal swab had a relatively low positive rate in the early stage of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Meanwhile, the manifestations of COVID-19 as seen through computed tomography (CT) imaging show individual characteristics that differ from those of other types of viral pneumonia such as influenza-A viral pneumonia (IAVP). This study aimed to establish an early screening model to distinguish COVID-19 from IAVP and healthy cases through pulmonary CT images using deep learning techniques. A total of 618 CT samples were collected: 219 samples from 110 patients with COVID-19 (mean age 50 years; 63 (57.3%) male patients); 224 samples from 224 patients with IAVP (mean age 61 years; 156 (69.6%) male patients); and 175 samples from 175 healthy cases (mean age 39 years; 97 (55.4%) male patients). All CT samples were contributed from three COVID-19-designated hospitals in Zhejiang Province, China. First, the candidate infection regions were segmented out from the pulmonary CT image set using a 3D deep learning model. These separated images were then categorized into the COVID-19, IAVP, and irrelevant to infection (ITI) groups, together with the corresponding confidence scores, using a location-attention classification model. Finally, the infection type and overall confidence score for each CT case were calculated using the Noisy-OR Bayesian function. The experimental result of the benchmark dataset showed that the overall accuracy rate was 86.7% in terms of all the CT cases taken together. The deep learning models established in this study were effective for the early screening of COVID-19 patients and were demonstrated to be a promising supplementary diagnostic method for frontline clinical doctors.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:6

Enthalten in:

Engineering (Beijing, China) - 6(2020), 10 vom: 28. Okt., Seite 1122-1129

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Xu, Xiaowei [VerfasserIn]
Jiang, Xiangao [VerfasserIn]
Ma, Chunlian [VerfasserIn]
Du, Peng [VerfasserIn]
Li, Xukun [VerfasserIn]
Lv, Shuangzhi [VerfasserIn]
Yu, Liang [VerfasserIn]
Ni, Qin [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Yanfei [VerfasserIn]
Su, Junwei [VerfasserIn]
Lang, Guanjing [VerfasserIn]
Li, Yongtao [VerfasserIn]
Zhao, Hong [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Jun [VerfasserIn]
Xu, Kaijin [VerfasserIn]
Ruan, Lingxiang [VerfasserIn]
Sheng, Jifang [VerfasserIn]
Qiu, Yunqing [VerfasserIn]
Wu, Wei [VerfasserIn]
Liang, Tingbo [VerfasserIn]
Li, Lanjuan [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

COVID-19
Computed tomography
Journal Article
Location-attention classification model

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Date Revised 08.12.2020

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.eng.2020.04.010

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM31411193X