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Moser F, Muller S, Lie T, Langø T, Hoff M. Automated segmentation of the median nerve in patients with carpal tunnel syndrome. Sci Rep 2024; 14:16757. [PMID: 39033223 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-65840-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/13/2024] [Accepted: 06/24/2024] [Indexed: 07/23/2024] Open
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Machine learning and deep learning are novel methods which are revolutionizing medical imaging. In our study we trained an algorithm with a U-Net shaped network to recognize ultrasound images of the median nerve in the complete distal half of the forearm and to measure the cross-sectional area at the inlet of the carpal tunnel. Images of 25 patient hands with carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) and 26 healthy controls were recorded on a video loop covering 15 cm of the distal forearm and 2355 images were manually segmented. We found an average Dice score of 0.76 between manual and automated segmentation of the median nerve in its complete course, while the measurement of the cross-sectional area at the carpal tunnel inlet resulted in a 10.9% difference between manually and automated measurements. We regard this technology as a suitable device for verifying the diagnosis of CTS.
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- Florentin Moser
- Department of Rheumatology, St. Olavs Hospital, Trondheim, Norway.
- Department of Neuromedicine and Movement Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.
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- Department of Health Research, SINTEF Digital, Trondheim, Norway
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- Department of Health Research, SINTEF Digital, Trondheim, Norway
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- Department of Health Research, SINTEF Digital, Trondheim, Norway
- Department of Research, St. Olavs Hospital, Trondheim, Norway
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- Department of Rheumatology, St. Olavs Hospital, Trondheim, Norway
- Department of Neuromedicine and Movement Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
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Abbasian Ardakani A, Airom O, Khorshidi H, Bureau NJ, Salvi M, Molinari F, Acharya UR. Interpretation of Artificial Intelligence Models in Healthcare: A Pictorial Guide for Clinicians. JOURNAL OF ULTRASOUND IN MEDICINE : OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ULTRASOUND IN MEDICINE 2024. [PMID: 39032010 DOI: 10.1002/jum.16524] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/13/2024] [Revised: 06/19/2024] [Accepted: 07/01/2024] [Indexed: 07/22/2024]
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Artificial intelligence (AI) models can play a more effective role in managing patients with the explosion of digital health records available in the healthcare industry. Machine-learning (ML) and deep-learning (DL) techniques are two methods used to develop predictive models that serve to improve the clinical processes in the healthcare industry. These models are also implemented in medical imaging machines to empower them with an intelligent decision system to aid physicians in their decisions and increase the efficiency of their routine clinical practices. The physicians who are going to work with these machines need to have an insight into what happens in the background of the implemented models and how they work. More importantly, they need to be able to interpret their predictions, assess their performance, and compare them to find the one with the best performance and fewer errors. This review aims to provide an accessible overview of key evaluation metrics for physicians without AI expertise. In this review, we developed four real-world diagnostic AI models (two ML and two DL models) for breast cancer diagnosis using ultrasound images. Then, 23 of the most commonly used evaluation metrics were reviewed uncomplicatedly for physicians. Finally, all metrics were calculated and used practically to interpret and evaluate the outputs of the models. Accessible explanations and practical applications empower physicians to effectively interpret, evaluate, and optimize AI models to ensure safety and efficacy when integrated into clinical practice.
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- Ali Abbasian Ardakani
- Department of Radiology Technology, School of Allied Medical Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Mathematics, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
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- Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
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- Department of Radiology, Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Biolab, PolitoBIOMedLab, Department of Electronics and Telecommunications, Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy
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- Biolab, PolitoBIOMedLab, Department of Electronics and Telecommunications, Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy
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- School of Mathematics, Physics and Computing, University of Southern Queensland, Springfield, Queensland, Australia
- Centre for Health Research, University of Southern Queensland, Springfield, Queensland, Australia
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Touati R, Trung Le W, Kadoury S. Multi-planar dual adversarial network based on dynamic 3D features for MRI-CT head and neck image synthesis. Phys Med Biol 2024; 69:155012. [PMID: 38981593 DOI: 10.1088/1361-6560/ad611a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/23/2024] [Accepted: 07/09/2024] [Indexed: 07/11/2024]
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Objective.Head and neck radiotherapy planning requires electron densities from different tissues for dose calculation. Dose calculation from imaging modalities such as MRI remains an unsolved problem since this imaging modality does not provide information about the density of electrons.Approach.We propose a generative adversarial network (GAN) approach that synthesizes CT (sCT) images from T1-weighted MRI acquisitions in head and neck cancer patients. Our contribution is to exploit new features that are relevant for improving multimodal image synthesis, and thus improving the quality of the generated CT images. More precisely, we propose a Dual branch generator based on the U-Net architecture and on an augmented multi-planar branch. The augmented branch learns specific 3D dynamic features, which describe the dynamic image shape variations and are extracted from different view-points of the volumetric input MRI. The architecture of the proposed model relies on an end-to-end convolutional U-Net embedding network.Results.The proposed model achieves a mean absolute error (MAE) of18.76±5.167in the target Hounsfield unit (HU) space on sagittal head and neck patients, with a mean structural similarity (MSSIM) of0.95±0.09and a Frechet inception distance (FID) of145.60±8.38. The model yields a MAE of26.83±8.27to generate specific primary tumor regions on axial patient acquisitions, with a Dice score of0.73±0.06and a FID distance equal to122.58±7.55. The improvement of our model over other state-of-the-art GAN approaches is of 3.8%, on a tumor test set. On both sagittal and axial acquisitions, the model yields the best peak signal-to-noise ratio of27.89±2.22and26.08±2.95to synthesize MRI from CT input.Significance.The proposed model synthesizes both sagittal and axial CT tumor images, used for radiotherapy treatment planning in head and neck cancer cases. The performance analysis across different imaging metrics and under different evaluation strategies demonstrates the effectiveness of our dual CT synthesis model to produce high quality sCT images compared to other state-of-the-art approaches. Our model could improve clinical tumor analysis, in which a further clinical validation remains to be explored.
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- Redha Touati
- MedICAL Laboratory, Polytechnique Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- MedICAL Laboratory, Polytechnique Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- MedICAL Laboratory, Polytechnique Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada
- CHUM Research Center, Montreal, QC, Canada
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Lyu S, Zhang M, Yu J, Zhu J, Zhang B, Gao L, Jin D, Chen Q. Application of radiomics model based on ultrasound image features in the prediction of carpal tunnel syndrome severity. Skeletal Radiol 2024; 53:1389-1397. [PMID: 38289532 DOI: 10.1007/s00256-024-04594-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/03/2023] [Revised: 01/12/2024] [Accepted: 01/14/2024] [Indexed: 05/15/2024]
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OBJECTIVE The aim of our study is to develop and validate a radiomics model based on ultrasound image features for predicting carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) severity. METHODS This retrospective study included 237 CTS hands (106 for mild symptom, 68 for moderate symptom and 63 for severe symptom). There were no statistically significant differences among the three groups in terms of age, gender, race, etc. The data set was randomly divided into a training set and a test set in a ratio of 7:3. Firstly, a senior musculoskeletal ultrasound expert measures the cross-sectional area of median nerve (MN) at the scaphoid-pisiform level. Subsequently, a recursive feature elimination (RFE) method was used to identify the most discriminative radiomic features of each MN at the entrance of the carpal tunnel. Eventually, a random forest model was employed to classify the selected features for prediction. To evaluate the performance of the model, the confusion matrix, receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves, and F1 values were calculated and plotted correspondingly. RESULTS The prediction capability of the radiomics model was significantly better than that of ultrasound measurements when 10 robust features were selected. The training set performed perfect classification with 100% accuracy for all participants, while the testing set performed accurate classification of severity for 76.39% of participants with F1 values of 80.00, 63.40, and 84.80 for predicting mild, moderate, and severe CTS, respectively. Comparably, the F1 values for mild, moderate, and severe CTS predicted based on the MN cross-sectional area were 76.46, 57.78, and 64.00, respectively.. CONCLUSION This radiomics model based on ultrasound images has certain value in distinguishing the severity of CTS, and was slightly superior to using only MN cross-sectional area for judgment. Although its diagnostic efficacy was still inferior to that of neuroelectrophysiology. However, this method was non-invasive and did not require additional costs, and could provide additional information for clinical physicians to develop diagnosis and treatment plans.
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- Shuyi Lyu
- Department of Ultrasound, Haishu District, Ningbo NO.2 Hospital, No. 41, Northwest Street, Ningbo, Zhejiang, 315010, People's Republic of China
- Department of Ultrasound, Zhenhai Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, No.51, Huancheng W Rd, Zhenhai District, Ningbo, 315200, Zhejiang, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Ultrasound, Haishu District, Ningbo NO.2 Hospital, No. 41, Northwest Street, Ningbo, Zhejiang, 315010, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Neuroelectrophysiology, Haishu District, Ningbo NO.2 Hospital, No. 41, Northwest Street, Ningbo, Zhejiang, 315010, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Radiology, Haishu District, Ningbo NO.2 Hospital, No. 41, Northwest Street, Ningbo, Zhejiang, 315010, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Ultrasound, Haishu District, Ningbo NO.2 Hospital, No. 41, Northwest Street, Ningbo, Zhejiang, 315010, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Ultrasound, Haishu District, Ningbo NO.2 Hospital, No. 41, Northwest Street, Ningbo, Zhejiang, 315010, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Ultrasound, Haishu District, Ningbo NO.2 Hospital, No. 41, Northwest Street, Ningbo, Zhejiang, 315010, People's Republic of China
- Hangzhou Medical College, Binjiang District, Hangzhou, 310051, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Orthopaedics, Haishu District, Ningbo NO.2 Hospital, No. 41, Northwest Street, Ningbo, Zhejiang, 315010, People's Republic of China.
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Rashid PQ, Türker İ. Lung Disease Detection Using U-Net Feature Extractor Cascaded by Graph Convolutional Network. Diagnostics (Basel) 2024; 14:1313. [PMID: 38928728 PMCID: PMC11202625 DOI: 10.3390/diagnostics14121313] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/20/2024] [Revised: 06/17/2024] [Accepted: 06/18/2024] [Indexed: 06/28/2024] Open
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Computed tomography (CT) scans have recently emerged as a major technique for the fast diagnosis of lung diseases via image classification techniques. In this study, we propose a method for the diagnosis of COVID-19 disease with improved accuracy by utilizing graph convolutional networks (GCN) at various layer formations and kernel sizes to extract features from CT scan images. We apply a U-Net model to aid in segmentation and feature extraction. In contrast with previous research retrieving deep features from convolutional filters and pooling layers, which fail to fully consider the spatial connectivity of the nodes, we employ GCNs for classification and prediction to capture spatial connectivity patterns, which provides a significant association benefit. We handle the extracted deep features to form an adjacency matrix that contains a graph structure and pass it to a GCN along with the original image graph and the largest kernel graph. We combine these graphs to form one block of the graph input and then pass it through a GCN with an additional dropout layer to avoid overfitting. Our findings show that the suggested framework, called the feature-extracted graph convolutional network (FGCN), performs better in identifying lung diseases compared to recently proposed deep learning architectures that are not based on graph representations. The proposed model also outperforms a variety of transfer learning models commonly used for medical diagnosis tasks, highlighting the abstraction potential of the graph representation over traditional methods.
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- Department of Computer Engineering, Karabuk University, 78050 Karabuk, Turkey;
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Shao W, Wang Y, Liu L, Ren Y, Wang J, Cui Y, Liu J, Zhang X, Zhang S, Liu S, Jiang E, Feng S, Pei X. Combining serum microRNAs and machine learning algorithms for diagnosing infectious fever after HSCT. Ann Hematol 2024; 103:2089-2102. [PMID: 38691145 DOI: 10.1007/s00277-024-05755-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2023] [Accepted: 04/11/2024] [Indexed: 05/03/2024]
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Infection post-hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) is one of the main causes of patient mortality. Fever is the most crucial clinical symptom indicating infection. However, current microbial detection methods are limited. Therefore, timely diagnosis of infectious fever and administration of antimicrobial drugs can effectively reduce patient mortality. In this study, serum samples were collected from 181 patients with HSCT with or without infection, as well as the clinical information. And more than 80 infectious-related microRNAs in the serum were selected according to the bulk RNA-seq result and detected in the 345 time-pointed serum samples by Q-PCR. Unsupervised clustering result indicates a close association between these microRNAs expression and infection occurrence. Compared to the uninfected cohort, more than 10 serum microRNAs were identified as the combined diagnostic markers in one formula constructed by the Random Forest (RF) algorithms, with a diagnostic accuracy more than 0.90. Furthermore, correlations of serum microRNAs to immune cells, inflammatory factors, pathgens, infection tissue, and prognosis were analyzed in the infection cohort. Overall, this study demonstrates that the combination of serum microRNAs detection and machine learning algorithms holds promising potential in diagnosing infectious fever after HSCT.
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- Wenwei Shao
- Academy of Medical Engineering and Translational Medicine, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300072, China
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- Academy of Medical Engineering and Translational Medicine, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300072, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Experimental Hematology, Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation Center, Haihe Laboratory of Cell Ecosystem, National Clinical Research Center for Blood Diseases, Institute of Hematology & Blood Diseases Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Tianjin, 300020, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Experimental Hematology, Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation Center, Haihe Laboratory of Cell Ecosystem, National Clinical Research Center for Blood Diseases, Institute of Hematology & Blood Diseases Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Tianjin, 300020, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Experimental Hematology, Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation Center, Haihe Laboratory of Cell Ecosystem, National Clinical Research Center for Blood Diseases, Institute of Hematology & Blood Diseases Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Tianjin, 300020, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Experimental Hematology, Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation Center, Haihe Laboratory of Cell Ecosystem, National Clinical Research Center for Blood Diseases, Institute of Hematology & Blood Diseases Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Tianjin, 300020, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Experimental Hematology, Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation Center, Haihe Laboratory of Cell Ecosystem, National Clinical Research Center for Blood Diseases, Institute of Hematology & Blood Diseases Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Tianjin, 300020, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Experimental Hematology, Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation Center, Haihe Laboratory of Cell Ecosystem, National Clinical Research Center for Blood Diseases, Institute of Hematology & Blood Diseases Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Tianjin, 300020, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Experimental Hematology, Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation Center, Haihe Laboratory of Cell Ecosystem, National Clinical Research Center for Blood Diseases, Institute of Hematology & Blood Diseases Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Tianjin, 300020, China
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- Academy of Medical Engineering and Translational Medicine, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300072, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Experimental Hematology, Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation Center, Haihe Laboratory of Cell Ecosystem, National Clinical Research Center for Blood Diseases, Institute of Hematology & Blood Diseases Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Tianjin, 300020, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Experimental Hematology, Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation Center, Haihe Laboratory of Cell Ecosystem, National Clinical Research Center for Blood Diseases, Institute of Hematology & Blood Diseases Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Tianjin, 300020, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Experimental Hematology, Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation Center, Haihe Laboratory of Cell Ecosystem, National Clinical Research Center for Blood Diseases, Institute of Hematology & Blood Diseases Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Tianjin, 300020, China.
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Kim S, Lee E, Hwang HT, Pyo J, Yun D, Baek SS, Cho KH. Spatiotemporal estimation of groundwater and surface water conditions by integrating deep learning and physics-based watershed models. WATER RESEARCH X 2024; 23:100228. [PMID: 38872710 PMCID: PMC11169954 DOI: 10.1016/j.wroa.2024.100228] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/26/2023] [Revised: 05/07/2024] [Accepted: 05/08/2024] [Indexed: 06/15/2024]
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The impacts of climate change on hydrology underscore the urgency of understanding watershed hydrological patterns for sustainable water resource management. The conventional physics-based fully distributed hydrological models are limited due to computational demands, particularly in the case of large-scale watersheds. Deep learning (DL) offers a promising solution for handling large datasets and extracting intricate data relationships. Here, we propose a DL modeling framework, incorporating convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to efficiently replicate physics-based model outputs at high spatial resolution. The goal was to estimate groundwater head and surface water depth in the Sabgyo Stream Watershed, South Korea. The model datasets consisted of input variables, including elevation, land cover, soil type, evapotranspiration, rainfall, and initial hydrological conditions. The initial conditions and target data were obtained from the fully distributed hydrological model HydroGeoSphere (HGS), whereas the other inputs were actual measurements in the field. By optimizing the training sample size, input design, CNN structure, and hyperparameters, we found that CNNs with residual architectures (ResNets) yielded superior performance. The optimal DL model reduces computation time by 45 times compared to the HGS model for monthly hydrological estimations over five years (RMSE 2.35 and 0.29 m for groundwater and surface water, respectively). In addition, our DL framework explored the predictive capabilities of hydrological responses to future climate scenarios. Although the proposed model is cost-effective for hydrological simulations, further enhancements are needed to improve the accuracy of long-term predictions. Ultimately, the proposed DL framework has the potential to facilitate decision-making, particularly in large-scale and complex watersheds.
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- Soobin Kim
- Disposal Safety Evaluation R&D Division, Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI), 111, Daedeok-daero 989 beon-gil, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 34057, Republic of Korea
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- Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources, 124 Gwahak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 34132, Republic of Korea
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- Aquanty, Inc., 600 Weber St. N., Unit B, Waterloo, ON N2V 1K4, Canada
- Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1, Canada
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- Department of Environmental Engineering, Pusan National University, Busandaehak-ro 63 beon-gil 2, Geumjeong-gu, Busan 46241, South Korea
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- School of Civil, Urban, Earth, and Environmental Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, 50 UNIST-gil, Ulju-gun, Ulsan 44919, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Environmental Engineering, Yeungnam University, 280 Daehak-Ro, Gyeongsan-Si, Gyeongbuk 38541, South Korea
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- School of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering, Korea University, Seoul 02841, South Korea
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Yetiş M, Kocaman H, Canlı M, Yıldırım H, Yetiş A, Ceylan İ. Carpal tunnel syndrome prediction with machine learning algorithms using anthropometric and strength-based measurement. PLoS One 2024; 19:e0300044. [PMID: 38630703 PMCID: PMC11023568 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0300044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/02/2023] [Accepted: 02/20/2024] [Indexed: 04/19/2024] Open
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OBJECTIVES Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) stands as the most prevalent upper extremity entrapment neuropathy, with a multifaceted etiology encompassing various risk factors. This study aimed to investigate whether anthropometric measurements of the hand, grip strength, and pinch strength could serve as predictive indicators for CTS through machine learning techniques. METHODS Enrollment encompassed patients exhibiting CTS symptoms (n = 56) and asymptomatic healthy controls (n = 56), with confirmation via electrophysiological assessments. Anthropometric measurements of the hand were obtained using a digital caliper, grip strength was gauged via a digital handgrip dynamometer, and pinch strengths were assessed using a pinchmeter. A comprehensive analysis was conducted employing four most common and effective machine learning algorithms, integrating thorough parameter tuning and cross-validation procedures. Additionally, the outcomes of variable importance were presented. RESULTS Among the diverse algorithms, Random Forests (accuracy of 89.474%, F1-score of 0.905, and kappa value of 0.789) and XGBoost (accuracy of 86.842%, F1-score of 0.878, and kappa value of 0.736) emerged as the top-performing choices based on distinct classification metrics. In addition, using variable importance calculations specific to these models, the most important variables were found to be wrist circumference, hand width, hand grip strength, tip pinch, key pinch, and middle finger length. CONCLUSION The findings of this study demonstrated that wrist circumference, hand width, hand grip strength, tip pinch, key pinch, and middle finger length can be utilized as reliable indicators of CTS. Also, the model developed herein, along with the identified crucial variables, could serve as an informative guide for healthcare professionals, enhancing precision and efficacy in CTS prediction.
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- Mehmet Yetiş
- Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology, Faculty of Medicine, Kırşehir Ahi Evran University, Kırşehir, Turkey
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- Department of Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation / Prosthetics-Orthotics Physiotherapy, Karamanoglu Mehmetbey University, Karaman, Turkey
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- School of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation, Kırşehir Ahi Evran University, Kırşehir, Turkey
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- Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Kamil Özdağ Science, Karamanoglu Mehmetbey University, Karaman, Turkey
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- Department of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, Kırşehir Ahi Evran University, Kırşehir, Turkey
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- School of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation, Kırşehir Ahi Evran University, Kırşehir, Turkey
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Sahoo P, Pathak NK, Scott Bohle D, Dodd EL, Tripathy U. Hematin anhydride (β-hematin): An analogue to malaria pigment hemozoin possesses nonlinearity. SPECTROCHIMICA ACTA. PART A, MOLECULAR AND BIOMOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY 2024; 310:123902. [PMID: 38281463 DOI: 10.1016/j.saa.2024.123902] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/06/2023] [Revised: 12/08/2023] [Accepted: 01/15/2024] [Indexed: 01/30/2024]
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Hematin anhydride (β-hematin), the synthetic analogue of the malaria pigment, "hemozoin", is a heme dimer produced by reciprocal covalent bonds among carboxylic acid groups on the protoporphyrin-IX ring and the iron atom present in the two adjacent heme molecules. Hemozoin is a disposal product formed from the digestion of hemoglobin present in the red blood cells infected with hematophagous malaria parasites. Besides, as the parasites invade red blood cells, hemozoin crystals are eventually released into the bloodstream, where they accumulate over time in tissues. Severe malaria infection leads to significant dysfunction in vital organs such as the liver, spleen, and brain in part due to the autoimmune response to the excessive accumulation of hemozoin in these tissues. Also, the amount of these crystals in the vasculature correlates with disease progression. Thus, hemozoin is a unique indicator of infection used as a malaria biomarker and hence, used as a target for the development of antimalarial drugs. Hence, exploring various properties of hemozoin is extremely useful in the direction of diagnosis and cure. The present study focuses on finding one of the unknown properties of β-hematin in physiological conditions by using the Z-scan technique, which is simple, sensitive, and economical. It is observed that hemozoin possesses one of the unique material properties, i.e., nonlinearity with a detection limit of ∼ 15 µM. The self-defocusing action causes β-hematin to exhibit negative refractive nonlinearity. The observed data is analyzed with a thermal lensing model. We strongly believe that our simple and reliable approach to probing the nonlinearity of β-hematin will provide fresh opportunities for malaria diagnostics & cure in the near future.
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- Priyadarshi Sahoo
- Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad 826004, Jharkhand, India
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- Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad 826004, Jharkhand, India
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- Department of Chemistry, McGill University, Montreal H3A 0B8, Quebec, Canada
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- Département de Chimie, Université du Québec à Montréal, 2101, rue Jeanne-Mance Montréal, H2X 2J6 Québec, Canada
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- Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad 826004, Jharkhand, India.
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Shirvalilou S, Khoei S, Khoee S, Soleymani M, Shirvaliloo M, Ali BH, Mahabadi VP. Dual-drug delivery by thermo-responsive Janus nanogel for improved cellular uptake, sustained release, and combination chemo-thermal therapy. Int J Pharm 2024; 653:123888. [PMID: 38342325 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpharm.2024.123888] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/20/2023] [Revised: 02/05/2024] [Accepted: 02/06/2024] [Indexed: 02/13/2024]
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The goal of this work was to examine the heat-sensitizing effects of Janus-coated magnetic nanoparticles (JMNPs) as a vehicle for 5-fluorouracil (5-Fu) and Quercetin (Qu) in C6 and OLN-93 cell lines. The cellular uptake of nanoparticles was evaluated using Prussian blue staining and ICP-OES after monolayer culturing of C6 (rat brain cancer cell) and OLN-93 (normal rat brain cell) cells. The cells were treated with free 5-Fu, Qu, and MJNPs loaded with Qu/5-Fu for 24 h, followed by magnetic hyperthermia under an alternating magnetic field (AMF) at a temperature of 43 °C. Using the MTT test and Flow cytometry, the C6 and OLN-93 cells were investigated after being subjected to hyperthermia with and without magnetic nanoparticles. The results of Prussian blue staining confirmed the potential of MJNPs as carriers that facilitate the uptake of drugs by cancer cells. The results showed that the combined application of Qu/5-Fu/MJNPs with hyperthermia significantly increased the amount of ROS production compared to interventions without MJNPs. The therapeutic results demonstrated that the combination of Qu/5-Fu/MJNPs with hyperthermia considerably enhanced the rate of apoptotic and necrotic cell death compared to that of interventions without MJNPs. Furthermore, MTT findings indicated that controlled exposure of Qu/5-Fu/MJNPs to AMF caused a synergistic effect. The advanced Janus magnetic nanoparticles in this study can be proposed as a promising dual drug carrier (Qu/5-Fu) and thermosensitizer platform for dual-modal synergistic cancer therapy.
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- Sakine Shirvalilou
- Finetech in Medicine Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran; Department of Medical Physics, School of Medicine, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
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- Finetech in Medicine Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran; Department of Medical Physics, School of Medicine, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
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- Department of Polymer Chemistry, School of Chemistry, College of Science, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Polymer Chemistry, School of Chemistry, College of Science, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
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- Finetech in Medicine Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran; Future Science Group, Unitec House, 2 Albert Place, London N3 1QB, United Kingdom
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- Department of Medical Physics, School of Medicine, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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Abdullah M, Abrha FB, Kedir B, Tamirat Tagesse T. A Hybrid Deep Learning CNN model for COVID-19 detection from chest X-rays. Heliyon 2024; 10:e26938. [PMID: 38468922 PMCID: PMC10926074 DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e26938] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/29/2023] [Revised: 02/19/2024] [Accepted: 02/21/2024] [Indexed: 03/13/2024] Open
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Coronavirus disease (COVID-2019) is emerging in Wuhan, China in 2019. It has spread throughout the world since the year 2020. Millions of people were affected and caused death to them till now. To avoid the spreading of COVID-2019, various precautions and restrictions have been taken by all nations. At the same time, infected persons are needed to identify and isolate, and medical treatment should be provided to them. Due to a deficient number of Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) tests, a Chest X-ray image is becoming an effective technique for diagnosing COVID-19. In this work, the Hybrid Deep Learning CNN model is proposed for the diagnosis COVID-19 using chest X-rays. The proposed model consists of a heading model and a base model. The base model utilizes two pre-trained deep learning structures such as VGG16 and VGG19. The feature dimensions from these pre-trained models are reduced by incorporating different pooling layers, such as max and average. In the heading part, dense layers of size three with different activation functions are also added. A dropout layer is supplemented to avoid overfitting. The experimental analyses are conducted to identify the efficacy of the proposed hybrid deep learning with existing transfer learning architectures such as VGG16, VGG19, EfficientNetB0 and ResNet50 using a COVID-19 radiology database. Various classification techniques, such as K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN), Naive Bayes, Random Forest, Support Vector Machine (SVM), and Neural Network, were also used for the performance comparison of the proposed model. The hybrid deep learning model with average pooling layers, along with SVM-linear and neural networks, both achieved an accuracy of 92%.These proposed models can be employed to assist radiologists and physicians in avoiding misdiagnosis rates and to validate the positive COVID-19 infected cases.
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- Mohan Abdullah
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Wachemo University, Ethiopia
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Wachemo University, Ethiopia
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Wachemo University, Ethiopia
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Rajinikanth V, Biju R, Mittal N, Mittal V, Askar S, Abouhawwash M. COVID-19 detection in lung CT slices using Brownian-butterfly-algorithm optimized lightweight deep features. Heliyon 2024; 10:e27509. [PMID: 38468955 PMCID: PMC10926136 DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e27509] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/18/2023] [Revised: 02/29/2024] [Accepted: 02/29/2024] [Indexed: 03/13/2024] Open
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Several deep-learning assisted disease assessment schemes (DAS) have been proposed to enhance accurate detection of COVID-19, a critical medical emergency, through the analysis of clinical data. Lung imaging, particularly from CT scans, plays a pivotal role in identifying and assessing the severity of COVID-19 infections. Existing automated methods leveraging deep learning contribute significantly to reducing the diagnostic burden associated with this process. This research aims in developing a simple DAS for COVID-19 detection using the pre-trained lightweight deep learning methods (LDMs) applied to lung CT slices. The use of LDMs contributes to a less complex yet highly accurate detection system. The key stages of the developed DAS include image collection and initial processing using Shannon's thresholding, deep-feature mining supported by LDMs, feature optimization utilizing the Brownian Butterfly Algorithm (BBA), and binary classification through three-fold cross-validation. The performance evaluation of the proposed scheme involves assessing individual, fused, and ensemble features. The investigation reveals that the developed DAS achieves a detection accuracy of 93.80% with individual features, 96% accuracy with fused features, and an impressive 99.10% accuracy with ensemble features. These outcomes affirm the effectiveness of the proposed scheme in significantly enhancing COVID-19 detection accuracy in the chosen lung CT database.
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- Venkatesan Rajinikanth
- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Division of Research and Innovation, Saveetha School of Engineering, Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences, Chennai, 602105, Tamil Nadu, India
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- Department of Computer Science Engineering, Parul University, Vadodara, 391760, Gujarat, India
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- Skill Faculty of Engineering and Technology, Shri Vishwakarma Skill University, Palwal, 121102, Haryana, India
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- Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Chandigarh University, Mohali, 140413, India
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- Department of Statistics and Operations Research, College of Science, King Saud University, P.O. Box 2455, Riyadh, 11451, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Mansoura University, Mansoura, 35516, Egypt
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Chavoshi M, Zamani S, Mirshahvalad SA. Diagnostic performance of deep learning models versus radiologists in COVID-19 pneumonia: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Clin Imaging 2024; 107:110092. [PMID: 38301371 DOI: 10.1016/j.clinimag.2024.110092] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/13/2023] [Revised: 01/16/2024] [Accepted: 01/20/2024] [Indexed: 02/03/2024]
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PURPOSE Although several studies have compared the performance of deep learning (DL) models and radiologists for the diagnosis of COVID-19 pneumonia on CT of the chest, these results have not been collectively evaluated. We performed a meta-analysis of original articles comparing the performance of DL models versus radiologists in detecting COVID-19 pneumonia. METHODS A systematic search was conducted on the three main medical literature databases, Scopus, Web of Science, and PubMed, for articles published as of February 1st, 2023. We included original scientific articles that compared DL models trained to detect COVID-19 pneumonia on CT to radiologists. Meta-analysis was performed to determine DL versus radiologist performance in terms of model sensitivity and specificity, taking into account inter and intra-study heterogeneity. RESULTS Twenty-two articles met the inclusion criteria. Based on the meta-analytic calculations, DL models had significantly higher pooled sensitivity (0.933 vs. 0.829, p < 0.001) compared to radiologists with similar pooled specificity (0.905 vs. 0.897, p = 0.746). In the differentiation of COVID-19 versus community-acquired pneumonia, the DL models had significantly higher sensitivity compared to radiologists (0.915 vs. 0.836, p = 0.001). CONCLUSIONS DL models have high performance for screening of COVID-19 pneumonia on chest CT, offering the possibility of these models for augmenting radiologists in clinical practice.
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- Mohammadreza Chavoshi
- Department of Radiology, Shariati Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- School of Medicine, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran
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- Joint Department of Medical Imaging, University Health Network, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
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Ragab DA, Fayed S, Ghatwary N. DeepCSFusion: Deep Compressive Sensing Fusion for Efficient COVID-19 Classification. JOURNAL OF IMAGING INFORMATICS IN MEDICINE 2024:10.1007/s10278-024-01011-2. [PMID: 38381386 DOI: 10.1007/s10278-024-01011-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/11/2023] [Revised: 12/04/2023] [Accepted: 12/05/2023] [Indexed: 02/22/2024]
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Worldwide, the COVID-19 epidemic, which started in 2019, has resulted in millions of deaths. The medical research community has widely used computer analysis of medical data during the pandemic, specifically deep learning models. Deploying models on devices with constrained resources is a significant challenge due to the increased storage demands associated with larger deep learning models. Accordingly, in this paper, we propose a novel compression strategy that compresses deep features with a compression ratio of 10 to 90% to accurately classify the COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 computed tomography scans. Additionally, we extensively validated the compression using various available deep learning methods to extract the most suitable features from different models. Finally, the suggested DeepCSFusion model compresses the extracted features and applies fusion to achieve the highest classification accuracy with fewer features. The proposed DeepCSFusion model was validated on the publicly available dataset "SARS-CoV-2 CT" scans composed of 1252 CT. This study demonstrates that the proposed DeepCSFusion reduced the computational time with an overall accuracy of 99.3%. Also, it outperforms state-of-the-art pipelines in terms of various classification measures.
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- Dina A Ragab
- Electronics & Communications Engineering Department, Arab Academy for Science, Technology, and Maritime Transport (AASTMT), Smart Village Campus, Giza, Egypt.
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- Computer Engineering Department, Arab Academy for Science Technology, and Maritime Transport (AASTMT), Smart Village Campus, Giza, Egypt
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- Computer Engineering Department, Arab Academy for Science Technology, and Maritime Transport (AASTMT), Smart Village Campus, Giza, Egypt
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Yilmaz G, Sezer S, Bastug A, Singh V, Gopalan R, Aydos O, Ozturk BY, Gokcinar D, Kamen A, Gramz J, Bodur H, Akbiyik F. Concordance and generalization of an AI algorithm with real-world clinical data in the pre-omicron and omicron era. Heliyon 2024; 10:e25410. [PMID: 38356547 PMCID: PMC10864957 DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e25410] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2023] [Revised: 01/23/2024] [Accepted: 01/25/2024] [Indexed: 02/16/2024] Open
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All viruses, including SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for COVID-19, continue to evolve, which can lead to new variants. The objective of this study is to assess the agreement between real-world clinical data and an algorithm that utilizes laboratory markers and age to predict the progression of disease severity in COVID-19 patients during the pre-Omicron and Omicron variant periods. The study evaluated the performance of a deep learning (DL) algorithm in predicting disease severity scores for COVID-19 patients using data from the USA, Spain, and Turkey (Ankara City Hospital (ACH) data set). The algorithm was developed and validated using pre-Omicron era data and was tested on both pre-Omicron and Omicron-era data. The predictions were compared to the actual clinical outcomes using a multidisciplinary approach. The concordance index values for all datasets ranged from 0.71 to 0.81. In the ACH cohort, a negative predictive value (NPV) of 0.78 or higher was observed for severe patients in both the pre-Omicron and Omicron eras, which is consistent with the algorithm's performance in the development cohort.
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- Gulsen Yilmaz
- Department of Medical Biochemistry, Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University, Ankara, Turkey
- Department of Medical Biochemistry, Ministry of Health, Ankara Bilkent City Hospital, Ankara, Turkey
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- Department of Medical Biochemistry, Ministry of Health, Ankara Bilkent City Hospital, Ankara, Turkey
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- Department of Infectious Disease and Clinical Microbiology, Health Science University of Turkey, Gulhane Medical School, Ankara City Hospital, Ankara, Turkey
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- Siemens Healthineers, Digital Technology and Innovation, Princeton, NJ, USA
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- Siemens Healthineers, Diagnostics, Tarrytown, NY, USA
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- Department of Infectious Disease and Clinical Microbiology, Ankara Bilkent City Hospital, Ankara, Turkey
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- Department of Infectious Disease and Clinical Microbiology, Ankara Bilkent City Hospital, Ankara, Turkey
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation, Health Science University Turkey, Ankara Bilkent City Hospital, Ankara, Turkey
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- Siemens Healthineers, Digital Technology and Innovation, Princeton, NJ, USA
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- Siemens Healthineers, Diagnostics, Tarrytown, NY, USA
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- Department of Infectious Disease and Clinical Microbiology, Health Science University of Turkey, Gulhane Medical School, Ankara City Hospital, Ankara, Turkey
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- Ankara Bilkent City Hospital Laboratory, Medical Director, Siemens Healthineers, Ankara, Turkey
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Dhar A, Gupta SL, Saini P, Sinha K, Khandelwal A, Tyagi R, Singh A, Sharma P, Jaiswal RK. Nanotechnology-based theranostic and prophylactic approaches against SARS-CoV-2. Immunol Res 2024; 72:14-33. [PMID: 37682455 DOI: 10.1007/s12026-023-09416-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/19/2023] [Accepted: 08/15/2023] [Indexed: 09/09/2023]
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SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) pandemic has been an unpredicted burden on global healthcare system by infecting over 700 million individuals, with approximately 6 million deaths worldwide. COVID-19 significantly impacted all sectors, but it very adversely affected the healthcare system. These effects were much more evident in the resource limited part of the world. Individuals with acute conditions were also severely impacted. Although classical COVID-19 diagnostics such as RT-PCR and rapid antibody testing have played a crucial role in reducing the spread of infection, these diagnostic techniques are associated with certain limitations. For instance, drawback of RT-PCR diagnostics is that due to degradation of viral RNA during shipping, it can give false negative results. Also, rapid antibody testing majorly depends on the phase of infection and cannot be performed on immune compromised individuals. These limitations in current diagnostic tools require the development of nanodiagnostic tools for early detection of COVID-19 infection. Therefore, the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak has necessitated the development of specific, responsive, accurate, rapid, low-cost, and simple-to-use diagnostic tools at point of care. In recent years, early detection has been a challenge for several health diseases that require prompt attention and treatment. Disease identification at an early stage, increased imaging of inner health issues, and ease of diagnostic processes have all been established using a new discipline of laboratory medicine called nanodiagnostics, even before symptoms have appeared. Nanodiagnostics refers to the application of nanoparticles (material with size equal to or less than 100 nm) for medical diagnostic purposes. The special property of nanomaterials compared to their macroscopic counterparts is a lesser signal loss and an enhanced electromagnetic field. Nanosize of the detection material also enhances its sensitivity and increases the signal to noise ratio. Microchips, nanorobots, biosensors, nanoidentification of single-celled structures, and microelectromechanical systems are some of the most modern nanodiagnostics technologies now in development. Here, we have highlighted the important roles of nanotechnology in healthcare sector, with a detailed focus on the management of the COVID-19 pandemic. We outline the different types of nanotechnology-based diagnostic devices for SARS-CoV-2 and the possible applications of nanomaterials in COVID-19 treatment. We also discuss the utility of nanomaterials in formulating preventive strategies against SARS-CoV-2 including their use in manufacture of protective equipment, formulation of vaccines, and strategies for directly hindering viral infection. We further discuss the factors hindering the large-scale accessibility of nanotechnology-based healthcare applications and suggestions for overcoming them.
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- Atika Dhar
- National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi, India, 110067
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- National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi, India, 110067
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- Department of Zoology, Patna Science College, Patna University, Patna, Bihar, India
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- College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, China
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- Department of Chemistry, Feroze Gandhi College, Raebareli, U.P, India, 229001
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- Department of Zoology, Patna Science College, Patna University, Patna, Bihar, India.
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- Department of Cancer Biology, Cardinal Bernardin Cancer Center, Loyola University Chicago, Stritch School of Medicine, Maywood, IL, 60153, USA.
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Peng J, Zeng J, Lai M, Huang R, Ni D, Li Z. One-Stop Automated Diagnostic System for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome in Ultrasound Images Using Deep Learning. ULTRASOUND IN MEDICINE & BIOLOGY 2024; 50:304-314. [PMID: 38044200 DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2023.10.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2023] [Revised: 08/23/2023] [Accepted: 10/22/2023] [Indexed: 12/05/2023]
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OBJECTIVE Ultrasound (US) examination has unique advantages in diagnosing carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS), although identification of the median nerve (MN) and diagnosis of CTS depend heavily on the expertise of examiners. In the aim of alleviating this problem, we developed a one-stop automated CTS diagnosis system (OSA-CTSD) and evaluated its effectiveness as a computer-aided diagnostic tool. METHODS We combined real-time MN delineation, accurate biometric measurements and explainable CTS diagnosis into a unified framework, called OSA-CTSD. We then collected a total of 32,301 static images from US videos of 90 normal wrists and 40 CTS wrists for evaluation using a simplified scanning protocol. RESULTS The proposed model exhibited better segmentation and measurement performance than competing methods, with a Hausdorff distance (95th percentile) score of 7.21 px, average symmetric surface distance score of 2.64 px, Dice score of 85.78% and intersection over union score of 76.00%. In the reader study, it exhibited performance comparable to the average performance of experienced radiologists in classifying CTS and outperformed inexperienced radiologists in terms of classification metrics (e.g., accuracy score 3.59% higher and F1 score 5.85% higher). CONCLUSION Diagnostic performance of the OSA-CTSD was promising, with the advantages of real-time delineation, automation and clinical interpretability. The application of such a tool not only reduces reliance on the expertise of examiners but also can help to promote future standardization of the CTS diagnostic process, benefiting both patients and radiologists.
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- Jiayu Peng
- Department of Ultrasound, Second People's Hospital of Shenzhen, First Affiliated Hospital of Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China; Shenzhen University Medical School, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China
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- Guangdong Key Laboratory of Biomedical Measurements and Ultrasound Imaging, School of Biomedical Engineering, Shenzhen University Medical School, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China; Medical Ultrasound Image Computing (MUSIC) Lab, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China; Marshall Laboratory of Biomedical Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China
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- Ultrasound Division, Department of Medical Imaging, University of Hong Kong-Shenzhen Hospital, Shenzhen, China
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- Guangdong Key Laboratory of Biomedical Measurements and Ultrasound Imaging, School of Biomedical Engineering, Shenzhen University Medical School, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China; Medical Ultrasound Image Computing (MUSIC) Lab, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China; Marshall Laboratory of Biomedical Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China
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- Guangdong Key Laboratory of Biomedical Measurements and Ultrasound Imaging, School of Biomedical Engineering, Shenzhen University Medical School, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China; Medical Ultrasound Image Computing (MUSIC) Lab, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China; Marshall Laboratory of Biomedical Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China
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- Department of Ultrasound, Second People's Hospital of Shenzhen, First Affiliated Hospital of Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China; Shenzhen University Medical School, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China.
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Fili V, Savelonas M. Self-attention-driven retrieval of chest CT images for COVID-19 assessment. Biomed Phys Eng Express 2024; 10:025013. [PMID: 38224614 DOI: 10.1088/2057-1976/ad1e76] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/02/2023] [Accepted: 01/15/2024] [Indexed: 01/17/2024]
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Numerous methods have been developed for computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) of coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19), based on chest computed tomography (CT) images. The majority of these methods are based on deep neural networks and often act as "black boxes" that cannot easily gain the trust of medical community, whereas their result is uniformly influenced by all image regions. This work introduces a novel, self-attention-driven method for content-based image retrieval (CBIR) of chest CT images. The proposed method analyzes a query CT image and returns a classification result, as well as a list of classified images, ranked according to similarity with the query. Each CT image is accompanied by a heatmap, which is derived by gradient-weighted class activation mapping (Grad-CAM) and represents the contribution of lung tissue and lesions to COVID-19 pathology. Beyond visualization, Grad-CAM weights are employed in a self-attention mechanism, in order to strengthen the influence of the most COVID-19-related image regions on the retrieval result. Experiments on two publicly available datasets demonstrate that the binary classification accuracy obtained by means of DenseNet-201 is 81.3% and 96.4%, for COVID-CT and SARS-CoV-2 datasets, respectively, with a false negative rate which is less than 3% in both datasets. In addition, the Grad-CAM-guided CBIR framework slightly outperforms the plain CBIR in most cases, with respect to nearest neighbour (NN) and first four (FF). The proposed method could serve as a computational tool for a more transparent decision-making process that could be trusted by the medical community. In addition, the employed self-attention mechanism increases the obtained retrieval performance.
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- Victoria Fili
- Department of Computer Science and Biomedical Informatics, University of Thessaly, Papasiopoulou 2-4, Lamia, 35131, Greece
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- Department of Computer Science and Biomedical Informatics, University of Thessaly, Papasiopoulou 2-4, Lamia, 35131, Greece
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Okada N, Umemura Y, Shi S, Inoue S, Honda S, Matsuzawa Y, Hirano Y, Kikuyama A, Yamakawa M, Gyobu T, Hosomi N, Minami K, Morita N, Watanabe A, Yamasaki H, Fukaguchi K, Maeyama H, Ito K, Okamoto K, Harano K, Meguro N, Unita R, Koshiba S, Endo T, Yamamoto T, Yamashita T, Shinba T, Fujimi S. "KAIZEN" method realizing implementation of deep-learning models for COVID-19 CT diagnosis in real world hospitals. Sci Rep 2024; 14:1672. [PMID: 38243054 PMCID: PMC10799049 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-52135-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/15/2023] [Accepted: 01/14/2024] [Indexed: 01/21/2024] Open
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Numerous COVID-19 diagnostic imaging Artificial Intelligence (AI) studies exist. However, none of their models were of potential clinical use, primarily owing to methodological defects and the lack of implementation considerations for inference. In this study, all development processes of the deep-learning models are performed based on strict criteria of the "KAIZEN checklist", which is proposed based on previous AI development guidelines to overcome the deficiencies mentioned above. We develop and evaluate two binary-classification deep-learning models to triage COVID-19: a slice model examining a Computed Tomography (CT) slice to find COVID-19 lesions; a series model examining a series of CT images to find an infected patient. We collected 2,400,200 CT slices from twelve emergency centers in Japan. Area Under Curve (AUC) and accuracy were calculated for classification performance. The inference time of the system that includes these two models were measured. For validation data, the slice and series models recognized COVID-19 with AUCs and accuracies of 0.989 and 0.982, 95.9% and 93.0% respectively. For test data, the models' AUCs and accuracies were 0.958 and 0.953, 90.0% and 91.4% respectively. The average inference time per case was 2.83 s. Our deep-learning system realizes accuracy and inference speed high enough for practical use. The systems have already been implemented in four hospitals and eight are under progression. We released an application software and implementation code for free in a highly usable state to allow its use in Japan and globally.
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- University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
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- Juntendo University Urayasu Hospital, Urayasu, Japan
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- National Hospital Organization Kyoto Medical Center, Kyoto, Japan
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- International University of Health and Welfare, School of Medicine, Narita Hospital, Narita, Japan
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Tong X, Wang S, Zhang J, Fan Y, Liu Y, Wei W. Automatic Osteoporosis Screening System Using Radiomics and Deep Learning from Low-Dose Chest CT Images. Bioengineering (Basel) 2024; 11:50. [PMID: 38247927 PMCID: PMC10813496 DOI: 10.3390/bioengineering11010050] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/28/2023] [Revised: 12/21/2023] [Accepted: 12/29/2023] [Indexed: 01/23/2024] Open
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OBJECTIVE Develop two fully automatic osteoporosis screening systems using deep learning (DL) and radiomics (Rad) techniques based on low-dose chest CT (LDCT) images and evaluate their diagnostic effectiveness. METHODS In total, 434 patients who underwent LDCT and bone mineral density (BMD) examination were retrospectively enrolled and divided into the development set (n = 333) and temporal validation set (n = 101). An automatic thoracic vertebra cancellous bone (TVCB) segmentation model was developed. The Dice similarity coefficient (DSC) was used to evaluate the segmentation performance. Furthermore, the three-class Rad and DL models were developed to distinguish osteoporosis, osteopenia, and normal bone mass. The diagnostic performance of these models was evaluated using the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve and decision curve analysis (DCA). RESULTS The automatic segmentation model achieved excellent segmentation performance, with a mean DSC of 0.96 ± 0.02 in the temporal validation set. The Rad model was used to identify osteoporosis, osteopenia, and normal BMD in the temporal validation set, with respective area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) values of 0.943, 0.801, and 0.932. The DL model achieved higher AUC values of 0.983, 0.906, and 0.969 for the same categories in the same validation set. The Delong test affirmed that both models performed similarly in BMD assessment. However, the accuracy of the DL model is 81.2%, which is better than the 73.3% accuracy of the Rad model in the temporal validation set. Additionally, DCA indicated that the DL model provided a greater net benefit compared to the Rad model across the majority of the reasonable threshold probabilities Conclusions: The automated segmentation framework we developed can accurately segment cancellous bone on low-dose chest CT images. These predictive models, which are based on deep learning and radiomics, provided comparable diagnostic performance in automatic BMD assessment. Nevertheless, it is important to highlight that the DL model demonstrates higher accuracy and precision than the Rad model.
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- Department of Radiology, First Affiliated Hospital of Dalian Medical University, Dalian 116014, China (S.W.); (Y.F.)
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Singh K, Kaur N, Prabhu A. Combating COVID-19 Crisis using Artificial Intelligence (AI) Based Approach: Systematic Review. Curr Top Med Chem 2024; 24:737-753. [PMID: 38318824 DOI: 10.2174/0115680266282179240124072121] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/18/2023] [Revised: 12/19/2023] [Accepted: 12/27/2023] [Indexed: 02/07/2024]
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BACKGROUND SARS-CoV-2, the unique coronavirus that causes COVID-19, has wreaked damage around the globe, with victims displaying a wide range of difficulties that have encouraged medical professionals to look for innovative technical solutions and therapeutic approaches. Artificial intelligence-based methods have contributed a significant part in tackling complicated issues, and some institutions have been quick to embrace and tailor these solutions in response to the COVID-19 pandemic's obstacles. Here, in this review article, we have covered a few DL techniques for COVID-19 detection and diagnosis, as well as ML techniques for COVID-19 identification, severity classification, vaccine and drug development, mortality rate prediction, contact tracing, risk assessment, and public distancing. This review illustrates the overall impact of AI/ML tools on tackling and managing the outbreak. PURPOSE The focus of this research was to undertake a thorough evaluation of the literature on the part of Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a complete and efficient solution in the battle against the COVID-19 epidemic in the domains of detection and diagnostics of disease, mortality prediction and vaccine as well as drug development. METHODS A comprehensive exploration of PubMed, Web of Science, and Science Direct was conducted using PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis) regulations to find all possibly suitable papers conducted and made publicly available between December 1, 2019, and August 2023. COVID-19, along with AI-specific words, was used to create the query syntax. RESULTS During the period covered by the search strategy, 961 articles were published and released online. Out of these, a total of 135 papers were chosen for additional investigation. Mortality rate prediction, early detection and diagnosis, vaccine as well as drug development, and lastly, incorporation of AI for supervising and controlling the COVID-19 pandemic were the four main topics focused entirely on AI applications used to tackle the COVID-19 crisis. Out of 135, 60 research papers focused on the detection and diagnosis of the COVID-19 pandemic. Next, 19 of the 135 studies applied a machine-learning approach for mortality rate prediction. Another 22 research publications emphasized the vaccine as well as drug development. Finally, the remaining studies were concentrated on controlling the COVID-19 pandemic by applying AI AI-based approach to it. CONCLUSION We compiled papers from the available COVID-19 literature that used AI-based methodologies to impart insights into various COVID-19 topics in this comprehensive study. Our results suggest crucial characteristics, data types, and COVID-19 tools that can aid in medical and translational research facilitation.
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- Kavya Singh
- Department of Biotechnology, Banasthali University, Banasthali Vidyapith, Banasthali, 304022, Rajasthan, India
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- Department of Chemistry & Division of Research and Development, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, 144411, Punjab, India
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- Biotechnology Department, NIT Warangal, Warangal, 506004, Telangana, India
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Zahedi Nasab R, Mohseni H, Montazeri M, Ghasemian F, Amin S. AFEX-Net: Adaptive feature extraction convolutional neural network for classifying computerized tomography images. Digit Health 2024; 10:20552076241232882. [PMID: 38406769 PMCID: PMC10894540 DOI: 10.1177/20552076241232882] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/20/2023] [Accepted: 01/23/2024] [Indexed: 02/27/2024] Open
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Purpose Deep convolutional neural networks are favored methods that are widely used in medical image processing due to their demonstrated performance in this area. Recently, the emergence of new lung diseases, such as COVID-19, and the possibility of early detection of their symptoms from chest computerized tomography images has attracted many researchers to classify diseases by training deep convolutional neural networks on lung computerized tomography images. The trained networks are expected to distinguish between different lung indications in various diseases, especially at the early stages. The purpose of this study is to introduce and assess an efficient deep convolutional neural network, called AFEX-Net, that can classify different lung diseases from chest computerized tomography images. Methods We designed a lightweight convolutional neural network called AFEX-Net with adaptive feature extraction layers, adaptive pooling layers, and adaptive activation functions. We trained and tested AFEX-Net on a dataset of more than 10,000 chest computerized tomography slices from different lung diseases (CC dataset), using an effective pre-processing method to remove bias. We also applied AFEX-Net to the public COVID-CTset dataset to assess its generalizability. The study was mainly conducted based on data collected over approximately six months during the pandemic outbreak in Afzalipour Hospital, Iran, which is the largest hospital in Southeast Iran. Results AFEX-Net achieved high accuracy and fast training on both datasets, outperforming several state-of-the-art convolutional neural networks. It has an accuracy of 99.7 % and 98.8 % on the CC and COVID-CTset datasets, respectively, with a learning speed that is 3 times faster compared to similar methods due to its lightweight structure. AFEX-Net was able to extract distinguishing features and classify chest computerized tomography images, especially at the early stages of lung diseases. Conclusion The AFEX-Net is a high-performing convolutional neural network for classifying lung diseases from chest CT images. It is efficient, adaptable, and compatible with input data, making it a reliable tool for early detection and diagnosis of lung diseases.
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- Roxana Zahedi Nasab
- Department of Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, Kerman, Iran
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- Department of Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, Kerman, Iran
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- Health Information Sciences Department, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran
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- Department of Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, Kerman, Iran
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- Kazerun Branch, Islamic Azad University, Kazerun, Iran
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Chen J, Han J. A study on the recognition of monkeypox infection based on deep convolutional neural networks. Front Immunol 2023; 14:1225557. [PMID: 38130718 PMCID: PMC10733491 DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2023.1225557] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/19/2023] [Accepted: 10/23/2023] [Indexed: 12/23/2023] Open
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Introduction The World Health Organization (WHO) has assessed the global public risk of monkeypox as moderate, and 71 WHO member countries have reported more than 14,000 cases of monkeypox infection. At present, the identification of clinical symptoms of monkeypox mainly depends on traditional medical means, which has the problems of low detection efficiency and high detection cost. The deep learning algorithm is excellent in image recognition and can extract and recognize image features quickly and reliably. Methods Therefore, this paper proposes a residual convolutional neural network based on the λ function and contextual transformer (LaCTResNet) for the image recognition of monkeypox cases. Results The average recognition accuracy of the neural network model is 91.85%, which is 15.82% higher than that of the baseline model ResNet50 and better than the classical convolutional neural networks models such as AlexNet, VGG16, Inception-V3, and EfficientNet-B5. Discussion This method realizes high-precision identification of skin symptoms of the monkeypox virus to provide a fast and reliable auxiliary diagnosis method for monkeypox cases for front-line medical staff.
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- College of Information Science and Technology, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, China
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Shi C, Shao Y, Shan F, Shen J, Huang X, Chen C, Lu Y, Zhan Y, Shi N, Wu J, Wang K, Gao Y, Shi Y, Song F. Development and validation of a deep learning model for multicategory pneumonia classification on chest computed tomography: a multicenter and multireader study. Quant Imaging Med Surg 2023; 13:8641-8656. [PMID: 38106268 PMCID: PMC10722067 DOI: 10.21037/qims-23-1097] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/01/2023] [Accepted: 09/14/2023] [Indexed: 12/19/2023]
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Background Accurate diagnosis of pneumonia is vital for effective disease management and mortality reduction, but it can be easily confused with other conditions on chest computed tomography (CT) due to an overlap in imaging features. We aimed to develop and validate a deep learning (DL) model based on chest CT for accurate classification of viral pneumonia (VP), bacterial pneumonia (BP), fungal pneumonia (FP), pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB), and no pneumonia (NP) conditions. Methods In total, 1,776 cases from five hospitals in different regions were retrospectively collected from September 2019 to June 2023. All cases were enrolled according to inclusion and exclusion criteria, and ultimately 1,611 cases were used to develop the DL model with 5-fold cross-validation, with 165 cases being used as the external test set. Five radiologists blindly reviewed the images from the internal and external test sets first without and then with DL model assistance. Precision, recall, F1-score, weighted F1-average, and area under the curve (AUC) were used to evaluate the model performance. Results The F1-scores of the DL model on the internal and external test sets were, respectively, 0.947 [95% confidence interval (CI): 0.936-0.958] and 0.933 (95% CI: 0.916-0.950) for VP, 0.511 (95% CI: 0.487-0.536) and 0.591 (95% CI: 0.557-0.624) for BP, 0.842 (95% CI: 0.824-0.860) and 0.848 (95% CI: 0.824-0.873) for FP, 0.843 (95% CI: 0.826-0.861) and 0.795 (95% CI: 0.767-0.822) for PTB, and 0.975 (95% CI: 0.968-0.983) and 0.976 (95% CI: 0.965-0.986) for NP, with a weighted F1-average of 0.883 (95% CI: 0.867-0.898) and 0.846 (95% CI: 0.822-0.871), respectively. The model performed well and showed comparable performance in both the internal and external test sets. The F1-score of the DL model was higher than that of radiologists, and with DL model assistance, radiologists achieved a higher F1-score. On the external test set, the F1-score of the DL model (F1-score 0.848; 95% CI: 0.824-0.873) was higher than that of the radiologists (F1-score 0.541; 95% CI: 0.507-0.575) as was its precision for the other three pneumonia conditions (all P values <0.001). With DL model assistance, the F1-score for FP (F1-score 0.541; 95% CI: 0.507-0.575) was higher than that achieved without assistance (F1-score 0.778; 95% CI: 0.750-0.807) as was its precision for the other three pneumonia conditions (all P values <0.001). Conclusions The DL approach can effectively classify pneumonia and can help improve radiologists' performance, supporting the full integration of DL results into the routine workflow of clinicians.
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- Chunzi Shi
- Department of Radiology, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, School of Medicine, Shanghai, China
- Qingdao Institute, School of Life Medicine, Department of Radiology, Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center, Fudan University, Qingdao, China
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- R&D Department, Shanghai United Imaging Intelligence Co., Ltd., Shanghai, China
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- Department of Radiology, Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Radiology, Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Radiology, Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
- Medical Imaging Department, First Affiliated Hospital of Ningbo University, Ningbo, China
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- Department of Radiology, Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Radiology, Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Radiology, Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Radiology, Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Radiology, Fourth People’s Hospital of Taiyuan, Taiyuan, China
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- Department of Radiology, Jinshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- R&D Department, Shanghai United Imaging Intelligence Co., Ltd., Shanghai, China
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- Department of Radiology, Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Radiology, Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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Zhang M, He G, Pan C, Yun B, Shen D, Meng M. Discrimination of benign and malignant breast lesions on dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging using deep learning. J Cancer Res Ther 2023; 19:1589-1596. [PMID: 38156926 DOI: 10.4103/jcrt.jcrt_325_23] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/12/2023] [Accepted: 09/26/2023] [Indexed: 01/03/2024]
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PURPOSE To evaluate the capability of deep transfer learning (DTL) and fine-tuning methods in differentiating malignant from benign lesions in breast dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (DCE-MRI). METHODS The diagnostic efficiencies of the VGG19, ResNet50, and DenseNet201 models were tested under the same dataset. The model with the highest performance was selected and modified utilizing three fine-tuning strategies (S1-3). Fifty additional lesions were selected to form the validation set to verify the generalization abilities of these models. The accuracy (Ac) of the different models in the training and test sets, as well as the precision (Pr), recall rate (Rc), F1 score (), and area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC), were primary performance indicators. Finally, the kappa test was used to compare the degree of agreement between the DTL models and pathological diagnosis in differentiating malignant from benign breast lesions. RESULTS The Pr, Rc, f1, and AUC of VGG19 (86.0%, 0.81, 0.81, and 0.81, respectively) were higher than those of DenseNet201 (70.0%, 0.61, 0.63, and 0.61, respectively) and ResNet50 (61.0%, 0.59, 0.59, and 0.59). After fine-tuning, the Pr, Rc, f1, and AUC of S1 (87.0%, 0.86, 0.86, and 0.86, respectively) were higher than those of VGG19. Notably, the degree of agreement between S1 and pathological diagnosis in differentiating malignant from benign breast lesions was 0.720 (κ = 0.720), which was higher than that of DenseNet201 (κ = 0.440), VGG19 (κ = 0.640), and ResNet50 (κ = 0.280). CONCLUSION The VGG19 model is an effective method for identifying benign and malignant breast lesions on DCE-MRI, and its performance can be further improved via fine-tuning. Overall, our findings insinuate that this technique holds potential clinical application value.
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- Ming Zhang
- Department of Radiology, The Affiliated Changzhou No. 2 People's Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Changzhou, Jiangsu Province, P.R. China
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- Department of Radiology, The Affiliated Changzhou No. 2 People's Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Changzhou, Jiangsu Province, P.R. China
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- Department of Radiology, The Affiliated Changzhou No. 2 People's Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Changzhou, Jiangsu Province, P.R. China
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- Teaching and Research Department of English, Nanjing Forestry University Nanjing 210037, Jiangsu Province, P.R. China
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- Department of Radiology, The Affiliated Changzhou No. 2 People's Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Changzhou, Jiangsu Province, P.R. China
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- Department of Radiology, The Affiliated Changzhou No. 2 People's Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Changzhou, Jiangsu Province, P.R. China
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Tehrani SSM, Zarvani M, Amiri P, Ghods Z, Raoufi M, Safavi-Naini SAA, Soheili A, Gharib M, Abbasi H. Visual transformer and deep CNN prediction of high-risk COVID-19 infected patients using fusion of CT images and clinical data. BMC Med Inform Decis Mak 2023; 23:265. [PMID: 37978393 PMCID: PMC10656999 DOI: 10.1186/s12911-023-02344-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/08/2023] [Accepted: 10/16/2023] [Indexed: 11/19/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Despite the globally reducing hospitalization rates and the much lower risks of Covid-19 mortality, accurate diagnosis of the infection stage and prediction of outcomes are clinically of interest. Advanced current technology can facilitate automating the process and help identifying those who are at higher risks of developing severe illness. This work explores and represents deep-learning-based schemes for predicting clinical outcomes in Covid-19 infected patients, using Visual Transformer and Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), fed with 3D data fusion of CT scan images and patients' clinical data. METHODS We report on the efficiency of Video Swin Transformers and several CNN models fed with fusion datasets and CT scans only vs. a set of conventional classifiers fed with patients' clinical data only. A relatively large clinical dataset from 380 Covid-19 diagnosed patients was used to train/test the models. RESULTS Results show that the 3D Video Swin Transformers fed with the fusion datasets of 64 sectional CT scans + 67 clinical labels outperformed all other approaches for predicting outcomes in Covid-19-infected patients amongst all techniques (i.e., TPR = 0.95, FPR = 0.40, F0.5 score = 0.82, AUC = 0.77, Kappa = 0.6). CONCLUSIONS We demonstrate how the utility of our proposed novel 3D data fusion approach through concatenating CT scan images with patients' clinical data can remarkably improve the performance of the models in predicting Covid-19 infection outcomes. SIGNIFICANCE Findings indicate possibilities of predicting the severity of outcome using patients' CT images and clinical data collected at the time of admission to hospital.
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- Faculty of Engineering, Alzahra University, Tehran, Iran
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- University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany
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- Faculty of Engineering, Alzahra University, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Radiology, School of Medicine, Imam Hossein Hospital, Shahid Beheshti, University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Research Institute for Gastroenterology and Liver Diseases, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- School of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Auckland Bioengineering Institute, University of Auckland, Auckland, 1010, New Zealand.
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Farhat F, Sohail SS, Alam MT, Ubaid S, Shakil, Ashhad M, Madsen DØ. COVID-19 and beyond: leveraging artificial intelligence for enhanced outbreak control. Front Artif Intell 2023; 6:1266560. [PMID: 38028660 PMCID: PMC10663297 DOI: 10.3389/frai.2023.1266560] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/25/2023] [Accepted: 10/02/2023] [Indexed: 12/01/2023] Open
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COVID-19 has brought significant changes to our political, social, and technological landscape. This paper explores the emergence and global spread of the disease and focuses on the role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in containing its transmission. To the best of our knowledge, there has been no scientific presentation of the early pictorial representation of the disease's spread. Additionally, we outline various domains where AI has made a significant impact during the pandemic. Our methodology involves searching relevant articles on COVID-19 and AI in leading databases such as PubMed and Scopus to identify the ways AI has addressed pandemic-related challenges and its potential for further assistance. While research suggests that AI has not fully realized its potential against COVID-19, likely due to data quality and diversity limitations, we review and identify key areas where AI has been crucial in preparing the fight against any sudden outbreak of the pandemic. We also propose ways to maximize the utilization of AI's capabilities in this regard.
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- Faiza Farhat
- Department of Zoology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India
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- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi, India
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- Faculty of Electronic and Information Technology, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
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- Faculty of Electronic and Information Technology, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
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- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi, India
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- USN School of Business, University of South-Eastern Norway, Hønefoss, Norway
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Jennifer SS, Shamim MH, Reza AW, Siddique N. Sickle cell disease classification using deep learning. Heliyon 2023; 9:e22203. [PMID: 38045118 PMCID: PMC10692811 DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e22203] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/15/2023] [Revised: 10/24/2023] [Accepted: 11/06/2023] [Indexed: 12/05/2023] Open
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This paper presents a transfer and deep learning based approach to the classification of Sickle Cell Disease (SCD). Five transfer learning models such as ResNet-50, AlexNet, MobileNet, VGG-16 and VGG-19, and a sequential convolutional neural network (CNN) have been implemented for SCD classification. ErythrocytesIDB dataset has been used for training and testing the models. In order to make up for the data insufficiency of the erythrocytesIDB dataset, advanced image augmentation techniques are employed to ensure the robustness of the dataset, enhance dataset diversity and improve the accuracy of the models. An ablation experiment using Random Forest and Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifiers along with various hyperparameter tweaking was carried out to determine the contribution of different model elements on their predicted accuracy. A rigorous statistical analysis was carried out for evaluation and to further evaluate the model's robustness, an adversarial attack test was conducted. The experimental results demonstrate compelling performance across all models. After performing the statistical tests, it was observed that MobileNet showed a significant improvement (p = 0.0229), while other models (ResNet-50, AlexNet, VGG-16, VGG-19) did not (p > 0.05). Notably, the ResNet-50 model achieves remarkable precision, recall, and F1-score values of 100 % for circular, elongated, and other cell shapes when experimented with a smaller dataset. The AlexNet model achieves a balanced precision (98 %) and recall (99 %) for circular and elongated shapes. Meanwhile, the other models showcase competitive performance.
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- Sanjeda Sara Jennifer
- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, East West University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, East West University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, East West University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- School of Computing, Engineering and Intelligent Systems, Ulster University, UK
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Wu WT, Lin CY, Shu YC, Shen PC, Lin TY, Chang KV, Özçakar L. The Potential of Ultrasound Radiomics in Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Diagnosis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Diagnostics (Basel) 2023; 13:3280. [PMID: 37892101 PMCID: PMC10606315 DOI: 10.3390/diagnostics13203280] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/26/2023] [Revised: 10/17/2023] [Accepted: 10/20/2023] [Indexed: 10/29/2023] Open
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Background: Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) is the most common entrapment neuropathy for which ultrasound imaging has recently emerged as a valuable diagnostic tool. This meta-analysis aims to investigate the role of ultrasound radiomics in the diagnosis of CTS and compare it with other diagnostic approaches. Methods: We conducted a comprehensive search of electronic databases from inception to September 2023. The included studies were assessed for quality using the Quality Assessment Tool for Diagnostic Accuracy Studies. The primary outcome was the diagnostic performance of ultrasound radiomics compared to radiologist evaluation for diagnosing CTS. Results: Our meta-analysis included five observational studies comprising 840 participants. In the context of radiologist evaluation, the combined statistics for sensitivity, specificity, and diagnostic odds ratio were 0.78 (95% confidence interval (CI), 0.71 to 0.83), 0.72 (95% CI, 0.59 to 0.81), and 9 (95% CI, 5 to 15), respectively. In contrast, the ultrasound radiomics training mode yielded a combined sensitivity of 0.88 (95% CI, 0.85 to 0.91), a specificity of 0.88 (95% CI, 0.84 to 0.92), and a diagnostic odds ratio of 58 (95% CI, 38 to 87). Similarly, the ultrasound radiomics testing mode demonstrated an aggregated sensitivity of 0.85 (95% CI, 0.78 to 0.89), a specificity of 0.80 (95% CI, 0.73 to 0.85), and a diagnostic odds ratio of 22 (95% CI, 12 to 41). Conclusions: In contrast to assessments by radiologists, ultrasound radiomics exhibited superior diagnostic performance in detecting CTS. Furthermore, there was minimal variability in the diagnostic accuracy between the training and testing sets of ultrasound radiomics, highlighting its potential as a robust diagnostic tool in CTS.
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- Wei-Ting Wu
- Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, National Taiwan University Hospital, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10048, Taiwan;
- Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, National Taiwan University Hospital, Bei-Hu Branch, Taipei 10845, Taiwan
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- Institute of Applied Mechanics, College of Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, Taiwan; (C.-Y.L.); (Y.-C.S.)
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- Institute of Applied Mechanics, College of Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, Taiwan; (C.-Y.L.); (Y.-C.S.)
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- Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Lo-Hsu Medical Foundation, Inc., Lotung Poh-Ai Hospital, Yilan 26546, Taiwan; (P.-C.S.); (T.-Y.L.)
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- Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Lo-Hsu Medical Foundation, Inc., Lotung Poh-Ai Hospital, Yilan 26546, Taiwan; (P.-C.S.); (T.-Y.L.)
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- Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, National Taiwan University Hospital, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10048, Taiwan;
- Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, National Taiwan University Hospital, Bei-Hu Branch, Taipei 10845, Taiwan
- Center for Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, Wang-Fang Hospital, Taipei Medical University, Taipei 11600, Taiwan
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- Department of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine, Hacettepe University Medical School, Ankara 06100, Turkey;
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Elseddik M, Alnowaiser K, Mostafa RR, Elashry A, El-Rashidy N, Elgamal S, Aboelfetouh A, El-Bakry H. Deep Learning-Based Approaches for Enhanced Diagnosis and Comprehensive Understanding of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. Diagnostics (Basel) 2023; 13:3211. [PMID: 37892032 PMCID: PMC10606231 DOI: 10.3390/diagnostics13203211] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2023] [Revised: 10/03/2023] [Accepted: 10/05/2023] [Indexed: 10/29/2023] Open
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Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) is a prevalent medical condition resulting from compression of the median nerve in the hand, often caused by overuse or age-related factors. In this study, a total of 160 patients participated, including 80 individuals with CTS presenting varying levels of severity across different age groups. Numerous studies have explored the use of machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) techniques for CTS diagnosis. However, further research is required to fully leverage the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) technology in CTS diagnosis, addressing the challenges and limitations highlighted in the existing literature. In our work, we propose a novel approach for CTS diagnosis, prediction, and monitoring disease progression. The proposed framework consists of three main layers. Firstly, we employ three distinct DL models for CTS diagnosis. Through our experiments, the proposed approach demonstrates superior performance across multiple evaluation metrics, with an accuracy of 0.969%, precision of 0.982%, and recall of 0.963%. The second layer focuses on predicting the cross-sectional area (CSA) at 1, 3, and 6 months using ML models, aiming to forecast disease progression during therapy. The best-performing model achieves an accuracy of 0.9522, an R2 score of 0.667, a mean absolute error (MAE) of 0.0132, and a median squared error (MdSE) of 0.0639. The highest predictive performance is observed after 6 months. The third layer concentrates on assessing significant changes in the patients' health status through statistical tests, including significance tests, the Kruskal-Wallis test, and a two-way ANOVA test. These tests aim to determine the effect of injections on CTS treatment. The results reveal a highly significant reduction in symptoms, as evidenced by scores from the Symptom Severity Scale and Functional Status Scale, as well as a decrease in CSA after 1, 3, and 6 months following the injection. SHAP is then utilized to provide an understandable explanation of the final prediction. Overall, our study presents a comprehensive approach for CTS diagnosis, prediction, and monitoring, showcasing promising results in terms of accuracy, precision, and recall for CTS diagnosis, as well as effective prediction of disease progression and evaluation of treatment effectiveness through statistical analysis.
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- Marwa Elseddik
- Department of the Robotics and Internet Machines, Faculty of Artificial Intelligence, Kafrelsheikh University, Kafrelsheikh 33516, Egypt
- Department of Information Systems, Faculty of Computers and Information, Mansoura University, Mansoura 35516, Egypt
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- College of Computer Engineering and Sciences, Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University, Al Kharj 11942, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Information Systems, Faculty of Computers and Information, Mansoura University, Mansoura 35516, Egypt
- Research Institute of Sciences and Engineering (RISE), University of Sharjah, Sharjah 27272, United Arab Emirates
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- Department of Information Systems, Faculty of Computers and Information, Kafrelsheikh University, Kafrelsheikh 33516, Egypt
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- Department of Machine Learning and Information Retrieval, Faculty of Artificial Intelligence, Kafrelsheikh University, Kafrelsheikh 33516, Egypt
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- Department of Neuropsychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Kafrelsheikh University, Kafrelsheikh 33516, Egypt
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- Department of Information Systems, Faculty of Computers and Information, Mansoura University, Mansoura 35516, Egypt
- Delta Higher Institute for Management and Accounting Information Systems, Mansoura 35511, Egypt
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- Department of Information Systems, Faculty of Computers and Information, Mansoura University, Mansoura 35516, Egypt
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Mohammadi A, Torres-Cuenca T, Mirza-Aghazadeh-Attari M, Faeghi F, Acharya UR, Abbasian Ardakani A. Deep Radiomics Features of Median Nerves for Automated Diagnosis of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome With Ultrasound Images: A Multi-Center Study. JOURNAL OF ULTRASOUND IN MEDICINE : OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ULTRASOUND IN MEDICINE 2023; 42:2257-2268. [PMID: 37159483 DOI: 10.1002/jum.16244] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/29/2022] [Revised: 03/18/2023] [Accepted: 04/16/2023] [Indexed: 05/11/2023]
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OBJECTIVES Ultrasound is widely used in diagnosing carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS). However, the limitations of ultrasound in CTS detection are the lack of objective measures in the detection of nerve abnormality and the operator-dependent nature of ultrasound imaging. Therefore, in this study, we developed and proposed externally validated artificial intelligence (AI) models based on deep-radiomics features. METHODS We have used 416 median nerves from 2 countries (Iran and Colombia) for the development (112 entrapped and 112 normal nerves from Iran) and validation (26 entrapped and 26 normal nerves from Iran, and 70 entrapped and 70 normal nerves from Columbia) of our models. Ultrasound images were fed to the SqueezNet architecture to extract deep-radiomics features. Then a ReliefF method was used to select the clinically significant features. The selected deep-radiomics features were fed to 9 common machine-learning algorithms to choose the best-performing classifier. The 2 best-performing AI models were then externally validated. RESULTS Our developed model achieved an area under the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve (AUC) of 0.910 (88.46% sensitivity, 88.46% specificity) and 0.908 (84.62% sensitivity, 88.46% specificity) with support vector machine and stochastic gradient descent (SGD), respectively using the internal validation dataset. Furthermore, both models consistently performed well in the external validation dataset, and achieved an AUC of 0.890 (85.71% sensitivity, 82.86% specificity) and 0.890 (84.29% sensitivity and 82.86% specificity), with SVM and SGD models, respectively. CONCLUSION Our proposed AI models fed with deep-radiomics features performed consistently with internal and external datasets. This justifies that our proposed system can be employed for clinical use in hospitals and polyclinics.
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- Afshin Mohammadi
- Department of Radiology, Faculty of Medicine, Urmia University of Medical Science, Urmia, Iran
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- Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, National University of Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia
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- Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Department of Radiology Technology, School of Allied Medical Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- School of Mathematics, Physics and Computing, University of Southern Queensland, Springfield, Queensland, Australia
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Science and Technology, SUSS University, Singapore
- Department of Biomedical Informatics and Medical Engineering, Asia University, Taichung, Taiwan
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- Department of Radiology Technology, School of Allied Medical Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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Yadav SK, Verma D, Yadav U, Kalkal A, Priyadarshini N, Kumar A, Mahato K. Point-of-Care Devices for Viral Detection: COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond. MICROMACHINES 2023; 14:1744. [PMID: 37763907 PMCID: PMC10535693 DOI: 10.3390/mi14091744] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/17/2023] [Revised: 08/29/2023] [Accepted: 08/30/2023] [Indexed: 09/29/2023]
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The pandemic of COVID-19 and its widespread transmission have made us realize the importance of early, quick diagnostic tests for facilitating effective cure and management. The primary obstacles encountered were accurately distinguishing COVID-19 from other illnesses including the flu, common cold, etc. While the polymerase chain reaction technique is a robust technique for the determination of SARS-CoV-2 in patients of COVID-19, there arises a high demand for affordable, quick, user-friendly, and precise point-of-care (POC) diagnostic in therapeutic settings. The necessity for available tests with rapid outcomes spurred the advancement of POC tests that are characterized by speed, automation, and high precision and accuracy. Paper-based POC devices have gained increasing interest in recent years because of rapid, low-cost detection without requiring external instruments. At present, microfluidic paper-based analysis devices have garnered public attention and accelerated the development of such POCT for efficient multistep assays. In the current review, our focus will be on the fabrication of detection modules for SARS-CoV-2. Here, we have included a discussion on various strategies for the detection of viral moieties. The compilation of these strategies would offer comprehensive insight into the detection of the causative agent preparedness for future pandemics. We also provide a descriptive outline for paper-based diagnostic platforms, involving the determination mechanisms, as well as a commercial kit for COVID-19 as well as their outlook.
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- Sumit K. Yadav
- Department of Biotechnology, Vinoba Bhave University, Hazaribagh 825301, Jharkhand, India
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- Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee 247667, Uttarakhand, India
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- Department of Life Sciences, Central University of Jharkhand, Ranchi 835205, Jharkhand, India
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- Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee 247667, Uttarakhand, India
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- Department of Zoology, DAV PG College Siwan, Jai Prakash University, Chhapra 841226, Bihar, India
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- Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46637, USA
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- Department of Nanoengineering, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Dr, La Jolla, San Diego, CA 92093, USA
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Haq SU, Bazai SU, Fatima A, Marjan S, Yang J, Por LY, Anjum M, Shahab S, Ku CS. Reseek-Arrhythmia: Empirical Evaluation of ResNet Architecture for Detection of Arrhythmia. Diagnostics (Basel) 2023; 13:2867. [PMID: 37761234 PMCID: PMC10529068 DOI: 10.3390/diagnostics13182867] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/05/2023] [Revised: 08/31/2023] [Accepted: 09/04/2023] [Indexed: 09/29/2023] Open
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Arrhythmia is a cardiac condition characterized by an irregular heart rhythm that hinders the proper circulation of blood, posing a severe risk to individuals' lives. Globally, arrhythmias are recognized as a significant health concern, accounting for nearly 12 percent of all deaths. As a result, there has been a growing focus on utilizing artificial intelligence for the detection and classification of abnormal heartbeats. In recent years, self-operated heartbeat detection research has gained popularity due to its cost-effectiveness and potential for expediting therapy for individuals at risk of arrhythmias. However, building an efficient automatic heartbeat monitoring approach for arrhythmia identification and classification comes with several significant challenges. These challenges include addressing issues related to data quality, determining the range for heart rate segmentation, managing data imbalance difficulties, handling intra- and inter-patient variations, distinguishing supraventricular irregular heartbeats from regular heartbeats, and ensuring model interpretability. In this study, we propose the Reseek-Arrhythmia model, which leverages deep learning techniques to automatically detect and classify heart arrhythmia diseases. The model combines different convolutional blocks and identity blocks, along with essential components such as convolution layers, batch normalization layers, and activation layers. To train and evaluate the model, we utilized the MIT-BIH and PTB datasets. Remarkably, the proposed model achieves outstanding performance with an accuracy of 99.35% and 93.50% and an acceptable loss of 0.688 and 0.2564, respectively.
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- Shams Ul Haq
- Department of Computer Engineering, Balochistan University of Information Technology, Engineering, and Management Sciences (BUITEMS), Quetta 87300, Pakistan; (S.U.H.); (A.F.)
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- Department of Computer Engineering, Balochistan University of Information Technology, Engineering, and Management Sciences (BUITEMS), Quetta 87300, Pakistan; (S.U.H.); (A.F.)
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- Department of Computer Engineering, Balochistan University of Information Technology, Engineering, and Management Sciences (BUITEMS), Quetta 87300, Pakistan; (S.U.H.); (A.F.)
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- Department of Software Engineering, Balochistan University of Information Technology, Engineering, and Management Sciences (BUITEMS), Quetta 87300, Pakistan
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- Department of Computer System and Technology, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur 50603, Malaysia; (J.Y.); (L.Y.P.)
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- Department of Computer System and Technology, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur 50603, Malaysia; (J.Y.); (L.Y.P.)
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- Department of Computer Engineering, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh 202002, India;
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- Department of Business Administration, College of Business Administration, Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University, P.O. Box 84428, Riyadh 11671, Saudi Arabia;
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- Department of Computer Science, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Kampar 31900, Malaysia
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Ghassemi N, Shoeibi A, Khodatars M, Heras J, Rahimi A, Zare A, Zhang YD, Pachori RB, Gorriz JM. Automatic diagnosis of COVID-19 from CT images using CycleGAN and transfer learning. Appl Soft Comput 2023; 144:110511. [PMID: 37346824 PMCID: PMC10263244 DOI: 10.1016/j.asoc.2023.110511] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2022] [Revised: 08/23/2022] [Accepted: 06/08/2023] [Indexed: 06/23/2023]
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The outbreak of the corona virus disease (COVID-19) has changed the lives of most people on Earth. Given the high prevalence of this disease, its correct diagnosis in order to quarantine patients is of the utmost importance in the steps of fighting this pandemic. Among the various modalities used for diagnosis, medical imaging, especially computed tomography (CT) imaging, has been the focus of many previous studies due to its accuracy and availability. In addition, automation of diagnostic methods can be of great help to physicians. In this paper, a method based on pre-trained deep neural networks is presented, which, by taking advantage of a cyclic generative adversarial net (CycleGAN) model for data augmentation, has reached state-of-the-art performance for the task at hand, i.e., 99.60% accuracy. Also, in order to evaluate the method, a dataset containing 3163 images from 189 patients has been collected and labeled by physicians. Unlike prior datasets, normal data have been collected from people suspected of having COVID-19 disease and not from data from other diseases, and this database is made available publicly. Moreover, the method's reliability is further evaluated by calibration metrics, and its decision is interpreted by Grad-CAM also to find suspicious regions as another output of the method and make its decisions trustworthy and explainable.
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- Navid Ghassemi
- Faculty of Electrical Engineering, FPGA Lab, K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
- Computer Engineering department, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran
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- Faculty of Electrical Engineering, FPGA Lab, K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
- Computer Engineering department, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran
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- Department of Medical Engineering, Mashhad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Mashhad, Iran
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- Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of La Rioja, La Rioja, Spain
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- Computer Engineering department, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran
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- Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Gonabad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Gonabad, Iran
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- School of Informatics, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK
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- Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Indore 453552, India
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- Department of Signal Theory, Networking and Communications, Universidad de Granada, Spain
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, UK
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Lyu S, Zhang M, Zhang B, Yu J, Zhu J, Gao L, Yang L, Zhang Y. Application of ultrasound images-based radiomics in carpal tunnel syndrome: Without measuring the median nerve cross-sectional area. JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ULTRASOUND : JCU 2023; 51:1198-1204. [PMID: 37313858 DOI: 10.1002/jcu.23505] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/18/2023] [Revised: 05/27/2023] [Accepted: 05/31/2023] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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PURPOSE By constructing a prediction model of carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) based on ultrasound images, it can automatically and accurately diagnose CTS without measuring the median nerve cross-sectional area (CSA). METHODS A total of 268 wrists ultrasound images of 101 patients diagnosed with CTS and 76 controls in Ningbo NO.2 Hospital from December 2021 to August 2022 were retrospectively analyzed. The radiomics method was used to construct the Logistic model through the steps of feature extraction, feature screening, reduction, and modeling. The area under the receiver operating characteristic curve was calculated to evaluate the performance of the model, and the diagnostic efficiency of the radiomics model was compared with two radiologists with different experience. RESULTS The 134 wrists in the CTS group included 65 mild CTS, 42 moderate CTS, and 17 severe CTS. In the CTS group, 28 wrists median nerve CSA were less than the cut-off value, 17 wrists were missed by Dr. A, 26 wrists by Dr. B, and only 6 wrists were missed by radiomics model. A total of 335 radiomics features were extracted from each MN, of which 10 features were significantly different between compressed and normal nerves, and were used to construct the model. The area under curve (AUC) value, sensitivity, specificity, and accuracy of the radiomics model in the training set and testing set were 0.939, 86.17%, 87.10%, 86.63%, and 0.891, 87.50%, 80.49%, and 83.95%, respectively. The AUC value, sensitivity, specificity, and accuracy of the two doctors in the diagnosis of CTS were 0.746, 75.37%, 73.88%, 74.63% and 0.679, 68.66%, 67.16%, and 67.91%, respectively. The radiomics model was superior to the two-radiologist diagnosis, especially when there was no significant change in CSA. CONCLUSION Radiomics based on ultrasound images can quantitatively analyze the subtle changes in the median nerve, and can automatically and accurately diagnose CTS without measuring CSA, especially when there was no significant change in CSA, which was better than radiologists.
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- Shuyi Lyu
- Department of Interventional Therapy, Ningbo NO.2 Hospital, Ningbo, People's Republic of China
- Department of Ultrasound, Zhenhai Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Ningbo, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Interventional Therapy, Ningbo NO.2 Hospital, Ningbo, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Interventional Therapy, Ningbo NO.2 Hospital, Ningbo, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Neuroelectrophysiology, Ningbo NO.2 Hospital, Ningbo, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Multi-Disciplinary Diagnosis and Treatment, Ningbo NO.2 Hospital, Ningbo, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Interventional Therapy, Ningbo NO.2 Hospital, Ningbo, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Interventional Therapy, Ningbo NO.2 Hospital, Ningbo, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Interventional Therapy, Ningbo NO.2 Hospital, Ningbo, People's Republic of China
- Department of Ultrasound, Zhenhai Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Ningbo, People's Republic of China
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Zhang J, Liu Y, Lei B, Sun D, Wang S, Zhou C, Ding X, Chen Y, Chen F, Wang T, Huang R, Chen K. GIONet: Global information optimized network for multi-center COVID-19 diagnosis via COVID-GAN and domain adversarial strategy. Comput Biol Med 2023; 163:107113. [PMID: 37307643 PMCID: PMC10242645 DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2023.107113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/09/2023] [Revised: 05/14/2023] [Accepted: 05/30/2023] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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The outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in 2019 has highlighted the need for automatic diagnosis of the disease, which can develop rapidly into a severe condition. Nevertheless, distinguishing between COVID-19 pneumonia and community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) through computed tomography scans can be challenging due to their similar characteristics. The existing methods often perform poorly in the 3-class classification task of healthy, CAP, and COVID-19 pneumonia, and they have poor ability to handle the heterogeneity of multi-centers data. To address these challenges, we design a COVID-19 classification model using global information optimized network (GIONet) and cross-centers domain adversarial learning strategy. Our approach includes proposing a 3D convolutional neural network with graph enhanced aggregation unit and multi-scale self-attention fusion unit to improve the global feature extraction capability. We also verified that domain adversarial training can effectively reduce feature distance between different centers to address the heterogeneity of multi-center data, and used specialized generative adversarial networks to balance data distribution and improve diagnostic performance. Our experiments demonstrate satisfying diagnosis results, with a mixed dataset accuracy of 99.17% and cross-centers task accuracies of 86.73% and 89.61%.
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- Jing Zhang
- Department of Radiology, The Fifth Affiliated Hospital of Zunyi Medical University, Zhuhai, 518000, China
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- National-Regional Key Technology Engineering Laboratory for Medical Ultrasound, Guangdong Key Laboratory for Biomedical Measurements and Ultrasound Imaging, School of Biomedical Engineering, Shenzhen University Medical School, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, 518000, China
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- National-Regional Key Technology Engineering Laboratory for Medical Ultrasound, Guangdong Key Laboratory for Biomedical Measurements and Ultrasound Imaging, School of Biomedical Engineering, Shenzhen University Medical School, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, 518000, China
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- Department of Radiology, The Fifth Affiliated Hospital of Zunyi Medical University, Zhuhai, 518000, China
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- Department of Radiology, The Fifth Affiliated Hospital of Zunyi Medical University, Zhuhai, 518000, China
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- Department of Radiology, The Fifth Affiliated Hospital of Zunyi Medical University, Zhuhai, 518000, China
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- Department of Radiology, The Fifth Affiliated Hospital of Zunyi Medical University, Zhuhai, 518000, China
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- Department of Radiology, The Fifth Affiliated Hospital of Zunyi Medical University, Zhuhai, 518000, China
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- Department of Radiology, The Fifth Affiliated Hospital of Zunyi Medical University, Zhuhai, 518000, China
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- National-Regional Key Technology Engineering Laboratory for Medical Ultrasound, Guangdong Key Laboratory for Biomedical Measurements and Ultrasound Imaging, School of Biomedical Engineering, Shenzhen University Medical School, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, 518000, China
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- Department of Radiology, The Fifth Affiliated Hospital of Zunyi Medical University, Zhuhai, 518000, China
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- Department of Radiology, The Fifth Affiliated Hospital of Zunyi Medical University, Zhuhai, 518000, China.
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Bagheri M, Hallaj T, Ansari L, Pakdel FG. Detection of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) by TaqMan Real-Time PCR in Iran. MAEDICA 2023; 18:442-446. [PMID: 38023762 PMCID: PMC10674112 DOI: 10.26574/maedica.2023.18.3.442] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2023]
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Introduction: Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is known as a positivesense single-strand RNA virus and leads to Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Coronaviruses significantly impact the human respiratory tract. Coronavirus disease is potentially fatal and transmissible in the world. In this study we evaluated the presence or absence of SARS-CoV-2 in 220 patients with un-explained pneumonia by TaqMan real-time PCR assay regarding open reading frame (ORF1ab) and nucleocapsid (N) protein genes. Materials and methods: Totally, 224 patients entered the study. Upper and lower respiratory tract secretion samples were obtained during 2020 from patients. Samples contained nose and throat swabs with viral transport medium. RNA was isolated from clinical samples with the GenePure Plus fully automatic Nucleic Acid Purification System, NPA-32+ (Hangzhou Bioer Technology Co. Ltd, Hangzhou, China). Outcomes: 72.32% of cases were positive for COVID-19. All positive cases had the most common symptoms of illness regarding fatigue, dry cough, dyspnea, headache, abdominal pain, nausa, vomiting and myalgia. Fever was observed in 50% of positive cases. Chest computed tomography (CT) scan of all tested patients indicated two-sided chest involvement. Conclusion:Detection of COVID-19 by TaqMan real-time PCR seems to be a powerful method for the screening and detection of novel corona virus infection.
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- Morteza Bagheri
- Cellular and Molecular Research Center, Cellular and Molecular Medicine Institute, Urmia University of Medical Sciences, Urmia, Iran
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- Cellular and Molecular Research Center, Cellular and Molecular Medicine Institute, Urmia University of Medical Sciences, Urmia, Iran
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- Cellular and Molecular Research Center, Cellular and Molecular Medicine Institute, Urmia University of Medical Sciences, Urmia, Iran
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- Cellular and Molecular Research Center, Cellular and Molecular Medicine Institute, Urmia University of Medical Sciences, Urmia, Iran
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Hou Y, Navarro-Cía M. A computationally-inexpensive strategy in CT image data augmentation for robust deep learning classification in the early stages of an outbreak. Biomed Phys Eng Express 2023; 9:055003. [PMID: 37413977 DOI: 10.1088/2057-1976/ace4cf] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/20/2023] [Accepted: 07/06/2023] [Indexed: 07/08/2023]
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Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has spread globally for over three years, and chest computed tomography (CT) has been used to diagnose COVID-19 and identify lung damage in COVID-19 patients. Given its widespread, CT will remain a common diagnostic tool in future pandemics, but its effectiveness at the beginning of any pandemic will depend strongly on the ability to classify CT scans quickly and correctly when only limited resources are available, as it will happen inevitably again in future pandemics. Here, we resort into the transfer learning procedure and limited hyperparameters to use as few computing resources as possible for COVID-19 CT images classification. Advanced Normalisation Tools (ANTs) are used to synthesise images as augmented/independent data and trained on EfficientNet to investigate the effect of synthetic images. On the COVID-CT dataset, classification accuracy increases from 91.15% to 95.50% and Area Under the Receiver Operating Characteristic (AUC) from 96.40% to 98.54%. We also customise a small dataset to simulate data collected in the early stages of the outbreak and report an improvement in accuracy from 85.95% to 94.32% and AUC from 93.21% to 98.61%. This study provides a feasible Low-Threshold, Easy-To-Deploy and Ready-To-Use solution with a relatively low computational cost for medical image classification at an early stage of an outbreak in which scarce data are available and traditional data augmentation may fail. Hence, it would be most suitable for low-resource settings.
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- Yikun Hou
- Department of Electronic, Electrical and Systems Engineering, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, United Kingdom
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- Department of Electronic, Electrical and Systems Engineering, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, United Kingdom
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, United Kingdom
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Dou B, Zhu Z, Merkurjev E, Ke L, Chen L, Jiang J, Zhu Y, Liu J, Zhang B, Wei GW. Machine Learning Methods for Small Data Challenges in Molecular Science. Chem Rev 2023; 123:8736-8780. [PMID: 37384816 PMCID: PMC10999174 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.3c00189] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 21.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/01/2023]
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Small data are often used in scientific and engineering research due to the presence of various constraints, such as time, cost, ethics, privacy, security, and technical limitations in data acquisition. However, big data have been the focus for the past decade, small data and their challenges have received little attention, even though they are technically more severe in machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) studies. Overall, the small data challenge is often compounded by issues, such as data diversity, imputation, noise, imbalance, and high-dimensionality. Fortunately, the current big data era is characterized by technological breakthroughs in ML, DL, and artificial intelligence (AI), which enable data-driven scientific discovery, and many advanced ML and DL technologies developed for big data have inadvertently provided solutions for small data problems. As a result, significant progress has been made in ML and DL for small data challenges in the past decade. In this review, we summarize and analyze several emerging potential solutions to small data challenges in molecular science, including chemical and biological sciences. We review both basic machine learning algorithms, such as linear regression, logistic regression (LR), k-nearest neighbor (KNN), support vector machine (SVM), kernel learning (KL), random forest (RF), and gradient boosting trees (GBT), and more advanced techniques, including artificial neural network (ANN), convolutional neural network (CNN), U-Net, graph neural network (GNN), Generative Adversarial Network (GAN), long short-term memory (LSTM), autoencoder, transformer, transfer learning, active learning, graph-based semi-supervised learning, combining deep learning with traditional machine learning, and physical model-based data augmentation. We also briefly discuss the latest advances in these methods. Finally, we conclude the survey with a discussion of promising trends in small data challenges in molecular science.
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- Bozheng Dou
- Research Center of Nonlinear Science, School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences,Wuhan Textile University, Wuhan 430200, P, R. China
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- Research Center of Nonlinear Science, School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences,Wuhan Textile University, Wuhan 430200, P, R. China
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- Department of Mathematics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, United States
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- Research Center of Nonlinear Science, School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences,Wuhan Textile University, Wuhan 430200, P, R. China
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- Research Center of Nonlinear Science, School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences,Wuhan Textile University, Wuhan 430200, P, R. China
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- Research Center of Nonlinear Science, School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences,Wuhan Textile University, Wuhan 430200, P, R. China
- Department of Mathematics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, United States
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- Research Center of Nonlinear Science, School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences,Wuhan Textile University, Wuhan 430200, P, R. China
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- Research Center of Nonlinear Science, School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences,Wuhan Textile University, Wuhan 430200, P, R. China
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- Research Center of Nonlinear Science, School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences,Wuhan Textile University, Wuhan 430200, P, R. China
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- Department of Mathematics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, United States
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, United States
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, United States
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Kaba Ş, Haci H, Isin A, Ilhan A, Conkbayir C. The Application of Deep Learning for the Segmentation and Classification of Coronary Arteries. Diagnostics (Basel) 2023; 13:2274. [PMID: 37443668 DOI: 10.3390/diagnostics13132274] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/2023] [Revised: 06/30/2023] [Accepted: 07/03/2023] [Indexed: 07/15/2023] Open
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In recent years, the prevalence of coronary artery disease (CAD) has become one of the leading causes of death around the world. Accurate stenosis detection of coronary arteries is crucial for timely treatment. Cardiologists use visual estimations when reading coronary angiography images to diagnose stenosis. As a result, they face various challenges which include high workloads, long processing times and human error. Computer-aided segmentation and classification of coronary arteries, as to whether stenosis is present or not, significantly reduces the workload of cardiologists and human errors caused by manual processes. Moreover, deep learning techniques have been shown to aid medical experts in diagnosing diseases using biomedical imaging. Thus, this study proposes the use of automatic segmentation of coronary arteries using U-Net, ResUNet-a, UNet++, models and classification using DenseNet201, EfficientNet-B0, Mobilenet-v2, ResNet101 and Xception models. In the case of segmentation, the comparative analysis of the three models has shown that U-Net achieved the highest score with a 0.8467 Dice score and 0.7454 Jaccard Index in comparison with UNet++ and ResUnet-a. Evaluation of the classification model's performances has shown that DenseNet201 performed better than other pretrained models with 0.9000 accuracy, 0.9833 specificity, 0.9556 PPV, 0.7746 Cohen's Kappa and 0.9694 Area Under the Curve (AUC).
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- Şerife Kaba
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Near East University, TRNC Mersin 10, Nicosia 99138, Turkey
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- Department of Electrical-Electronic Engineering, Near East University, TRNC Mersin 10, Nicosia 99138, Turkey
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Cyprus International University, TRNC Mersin 10, Nicosia 99138, Turkey
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- Department of Computer Engineering, Near East University, TRNC Mersin 10, Nicosia 99138, Turkey
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- Department of Cardiology, Near East University, TRNC Mersin 10, Nicosia 99138, Turkey
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Lyu S, Zhang Y, Zhang M, Zhu J, Yu J, Zhang B, Gao L, Wei H. The Application of Ultrasound Image-Based Radiomics in the Diagnosis of Mild Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. JOURNAL OF ULTRASOUND IN MEDICINE : OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ULTRASOUND IN MEDICINE 2023; 42:1499-1508. [PMID: 36565451 DOI: 10.1002/jum.16160] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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OBJECTIVES The ultrasound diagnosis of mild carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) is challenging. Radiomics can identify image information that the human eye cannot recognize. The purpose of our study was to explore the value of ultrasound image-based radiomics in the diagnosis of mild CTS. METHODS This retrospective study included 126 wrists in the CTS group and 88 wrists in the control group. The radiomics features were extracted from the cross-sectional ultrasound images at the entrance of median nerve carpal tunnel, and the modeling was based on robust features. Two radiologists with different experiences diagnosed CTS according to two guidelines. The area under receiver (AUC) operating characteristic curve, sensitivity, specificity, and accuracy were used to evaluate the diagnostic efficacy of the two radiologists and the radiomics model. RESULTS According to guideline one, the AUC values of the two radiologists for CTS were 0.72 and 0.67, respectively; according to guideline two, the AUC were 0.73 and 0.68, respectively. The radiomics model achieved the best accuracy when 16 important robust features were selected. The AUC values of training set and test set were 0.92 and 0.90, respectively. CONCLUSIONS The radiomics label based on ultrasound images had excellent diagnostic efficacy for mild CTS. It is expected to help radiologists to identify early CTS patients as soon as possible, especially for inexperienced doctors.
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- Shuyi Lyu
- Department of Interventional Therapy, Ningbo No. 2 Hospital, Zhejiang, China
- Ningbo Clinical Research Center for Medical Imaging, Zhejiang, China
- Provincial and Municipal Co-construction Key Discipline for Medical Imaging, Zhejiang, China
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- Department of Interventional Therapy, Ningbo No. 2 Hospital, Zhejiang, China
- Ningbo Clinical Research Center for Medical Imaging, Zhejiang, China
- Provincial and Municipal Co-construction Key Discipline for Medical Imaging, Zhejiang, China
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- Department of Interventional Therapy, Ningbo No. 2 Hospital, Zhejiang, China
- Ningbo Clinical Research Center for Medical Imaging, Zhejiang, China
- Provincial and Municipal Co-construction Key Discipline for Medical Imaging, Zhejiang, China
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- Ningbo Clinical Research Center for Medical Imaging, Zhejiang, China
- Provincial and Municipal Co-construction Key Discipline for Medical Imaging, Zhejiang, China
- Multi-disciplinary Diagnosis and Treatment Department, Ningbo No. 2 Hospital, Zhejiang, China
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- Department of Neuroelectrophysiology, Ningbo No. 2 Hospital, Zhejiang, China
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- Department of Interventional Therapy, Ningbo No. 2 Hospital, Zhejiang, China
- Ningbo Clinical Research Center for Medical Imaging, Zhejiang, China
- Provincial and Municipal Co-construction Key Discipline for Medical Imaging, Zhejiang, China
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- Department of Interventional Therapy, Ningbo No. 2 Hospital, Zhejiang, China
- Ningbo Clinical Research Center for Medical Imaging, Zhejiang, China
- Provincial and Municipal Co-construction Key Discipline for Medical Imaging, Zhejiang, China
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- Department of Interventional Therapy, Ningbo No. 2 Hospital, Zhejiang, China
- Ningbo Clinical Research Center for Medical Imaging, Zhejiang, China
- Provincial and Municipal Co-construction Key Discipline for Medical Imaging, Zhejiang, China
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Nouman Khan M, Wang Q, Idrees BS, Waheed R, Haq AU, Abrar M, Jamil Y. Evaluation of medicinal plants using laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) combined with chemometric techniques. Lasers Med Sci 2023; 38:149. [PMID: 37365431 DOI: 10.1007/s10103-023-03805-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/09/2022] [Accepted: 06/12/2023] [Indexed: 06/28/2023]
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Medicinal plants play a vital role in herbal medical field and allopathic medicine field industry. Chemical and spectroscopic studies of Taraxacum officinale, Hyoscyamus niger, Ajuga bracteosa, Elaeagnus angustifolia, Camellia sinensis, and Berberis lyceum are conducted in this paper by using a 532-nm Nd:YAG laser in an open air environment. These medicinal plant's leaves, roots, seed, and flowers are used to treat a range of diseases by the locals. It is crucial to be able to distinguish between beneficial and detrimental metal elements in these plants. We demonstrated how various elements are categorized and how roots, leaves, seeds and flowers of same plants differ from each other on the basis of elemental analysis. Furthermore, for classification purpose, different classification models, partial least square discriminant analysis (PLS-DA), k-nearest neighbors (kNN), and principal component analysis (PCA) are used. We found silicon (Si), aluminum (Al), iron (Fe), copper (Cu), calcium (Ca), magnesium (Mg), sodium (Na), potassium (K), manganese (Mn), phosphorous (P), and vanadium (V) in all of the medicinal plant samples with a molecular form of carbon and nitrogen band. We detected Ca, Mg, Si, and P as primary components in all of the plant samples, as well as V, Fe, Mn, Al, and Ti as essential medicinal metals, and additional trace elements like Si, Sr, and Al. The result's findings show that the PLS-DA classification model with single normal variate (SNV) preprocessing method is the most effective classification model for different types of plant samples. The average correct classification rate obtained for PLS-DA with SNV is 95%. Moreover, laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) was successfully employed to perform rapid, sensitive, and quantitative trace element analysis on medicinal herbs and plant samples.
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- Muhammad Nouman Khan
- School of Optics and Photonics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China.
- Key Laboratory of Photonic Information Technology, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, 100081, China.
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- School of Optics and Photonics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China
- Key Laboratory of Photonic Information Technology, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, 100081, China
- Yangtze Delta Region Academy of Beijing Institute of Technology, Jiaxing, 314033, China
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- School of Optics and Photonics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China
- Key Laboratory of Photonic Information Technology, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, 100081, China
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- Department of Physics, Hazara University, Mansehra, Pakistan
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- Department of Physics, Hazara University, Mansehra, Pakistan
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- Department of Physics, Hazara University, Mansehra, Pakistan
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- Department of Physics, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Faisalabad, Pakistan
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JavadiMoghaddam S. A novel framework based on deep learning for COVID-19 diagnosis from X-ray images. PeerJ Comput Sci 2023; 9:e1375. [PMID: 37346600 PMCID: PMC10280393 DOI: 10.7717/peerj-cs.1375] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/24/2023] [Accepted: 04/10/2023] [Indexed: 06/23/2023]
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Background The coronavirus infection has endangered human health because of the high speed of the outbreak. A rapid and accurate diagnosis of the infection is essential to avoid further spread. Due to the cost of diagnostic kits and the availability of radiology equipment in most parts of the world, the COVID-19 detection method using X-ray images is still used in underprivileged countries. However, they are challenging due to being prone to human error, time-consuming, and demanding. The success of deep learning (DL) in automatic COVID-19 diagnosis systems has necessitated a detection system using these techniques. The most critical challenge in using deep learning techniques in diagnosing COVID-19 is accuracy because it plays an essential role in controlling the spread of the disease. Methods This article presents a new framework for detecting COVID-19 using X-ray images. The model uses a modified version of DenseNet-121 for the network layer, an image data loader to separate images in batches, a loss function to reduce the prediction error, and a weighted random sampler to balance the training phase. Finally, an optimizer changes the attributes of the neural networks. Results Extensive experiments using different types of pneumonia expresses satisfactory diagnosis performance with an accuracy of 99.81%. Conclusion This work aims to design a new deep neural network for highly accurate online recognition of medical images. The evaluation results show that the proposed framework can be considered an auxiliary device to help radiologists accurately confirm initial screening.
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Mathur G, Pandey A, Goyal S. A review on blockchain for DNA sequence: security issues, application in DNA classification, challenges and future trends. MULTIMEDIA TOOLS AND APPLICATIONS 2023:1-23. [PMID: 37362738 PMCID: PMC10209554 DOI: 10.1007/s11042-023-15857-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/14/2022] [Revised: 03/09/2023] [Accepted: 05/15/2023] [Indexed: 06/28/2023]
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In biological science, the study of DNA sequences is considered an important factor because it carries the genomic details that can be used by researchers and doctors for the early prediction of disease using DNA classification. The NCBI has the world's largest database of genetic sequences, but the security of this massive amount of data is currently the greatest issue. One of the options is to encrypt these genetic sequences using blockchain technology. As a result, this paper presents a survey on healthcare data breaches, the necessity for blockchain in healthcare, and the number of research studies done in this area. In addition, the report suggests DNA sequence classification for earlier disease identification and evaluates previous work in the field.
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- Garima Mathur
- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, UIT, RGPV, Bhopal, India
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- Department of Information Technology, UIT, RGPV, Bhopal, India
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- Department of Information Technology, UIT, RGPV, Bhopal, India
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Kaushik B, Chadha A, Sharma R. Performance Evaluation of Learning Models for the Prognosis of COVID-19. NEW GENERATION COMPUTING 2023; 41:1-19. [PMID: 37362547 PMCID: PMC10206363 DOI: 10.1007/s00354-023-00220-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/05/2022] [Accepted: 05/04/2023] [Indexed: 06/28/2023]
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COVID-19 has developed as a worldwide pandemic that needs ways to be detected. It is a communicable disease and is spreading widely. Deep learning and transfer learning methods have achieved promising results and performance for the detection of COVID-19. Therefore, a hybrid deep transfer learning technique has been proposed in this study to detect COVID-19 from chest X-ray images. The work done previously contains a very less number of COVID-19 X-ray images. However, the dataset taken in this work is balanced with a total of 28,384 X-ray images, having 14,192 images in the COVID-19 class and 14,192 images in the normal class. Experimental evaluations were conducted using a chest X-ray dataset to test the efficacy of the proposed hybrid technique. The results clearly reveal that the proposed hybrid technique attains better performance in comparison to the existing contemporary transfer learning and deep learning techniques.
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- Baijnath Kaushik
- School of Computer Science and Engineering, Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, Katra, India
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- School of Computer Science and Engineering, Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, Katra, India
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- School of Computer Science and Engineering, Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, Katra, India
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Hassan A, Elhoseny M, Kayed M. A novel and accurate deep learning-based Covid-19 diagnostic model for heart patients. SIGNAL, IMAGE AND VIDEO PROCESSING 2023; 17:1-8. [PMID: 37362230 PMCID: PMC10197036 DOI: 10.1007/s11760-023-02561-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/05/2022] [Revised: 03/08/2023] [Accepted: 03/14/2023] [Indexed: 06/28/2023]
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Using radiographic changes of COVID-19 in the medical images, artificial intelligence techniques such as deep learning are used to extract some graphical features of COVID-19 and present a Covid-19 diagnostic tool. Differently from previous works that focus on using deep learning to analyze CT scans or X-ray images, this paper uses deep learning to scan electro diagram (ECG) images to diagnose Covid-19. Covid-19 patients with heart disease are the most people exposed to violent symptoms of Covid-19 and death. This shows that there is a special, unclear relation (until now) and parameters between covid-19 and heart disease. So, as previous works, using a general diagnostic model to detect covid-19 from all patients, based on the same rules, is not accurate as we prove later in the practical section of our paper because the model faces dispersion in the data during the training process. So, this paper aims to propose a novel model that focuses on diagnosing accurately Covid-19 for heart patients only to increase the accuracy and to reduce the waiting time of a heart patient to perform a covid-19 diagnosis. Also, we handle the only one existed dataset that contains ECGs of Covid-19 patients and produce a new version, with the help of a heart diseases expert, which consists of two classes: ECGs of heart patients with positive Covid-19 and ECGs of heart patients with negative Covid-19 cases. This dataset will help medical experts and data scientists to study the relation between Covid-19 and heart patients. We achieve overall accuracy, sensitivity and specificity 99.1%, 99% and 100%, respectively. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11760-023-02561-8.
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- Ahmed Hassan
- Faculty of Science, Beni-Suef University, Beni-Suef, 62511 Egypt
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- Faculty of Computers and Information, Mansoura University, Mansoura, 35516 Egypt
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- Faculty of Computers and Artificial Intelligence, Beni-Suef University, Beni-Suef, 62511 Egypt
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Lakshmi M, Das R. Classification of Monkeypox Images Using LIME-Enabled Investigation of Deep Convolutional Neural Network. Diagnostics (Basel) 2023; 13:diagnostics13091639. [PMID: 37175030 PMCID: PMC10178151 DOI: 10.3390/diagnostics13091639] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/06/2023] [Revised: 03/04/2023] [Accepted: 03/07/2023] [Indexed: 05/15/2023] Open
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In this research, we demonstrate a Deep Convolutional Neural Network-based classification model for the detection of monkeypox. Monkeypox can be difficult to diagnose clinically in its early stages since it resembles both chickenpox and measles in symptoms. The early diagnosis of monkeypox helps doctors cure it more quickly. Therefore, pre-trained models are frequently used in the diagnosis of monkeypox, because the manual analysis of a large number of images is labor-intensive and prone to inaccuracy. Therefore, finding the monkeypox virus requires an automated process. The large layer count of convolutional neural network (CNN) architectures enables them to successfully conceptualize the features on their own, thereby contributing to better performance in image classification. The scientific community has recently articulated significant attention in employing artificial intelligence (AI) to diagnose monkeypox from digital skin images due primarily to AI's success in COVID-19 identification. The VGG16, VGG19, ResNet50, ResNet101, DenseNet201, and AlexNet models were used in our proposed method to classify patients with monkeypox symptoms with other diseases of a similar kind (chickenpox, measles, and normal). The majority of images in our research are collected from publicly available datasets. This study suggests an adaptive k-means clustering image segmentation technique that delivers precise segmentation results with straightforward operation. Our preliminary computational findings reveal that the proposed model could accurately detect patients with monkeypox. The best overall accuracy achieved by ResNet101 is 94.25%, with an AUC of 98.59%. Additionally, we describe the categorization of our model utilizing feature extraction using Local Interpretable Model-Agnostic Explanations (LIME), which provides a more in-depth understanding of particular properties that distinguish the monkeypox virus.
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- M Lakshmi
- Department of Mathematics, School of Advanced Sciences, Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), Vellore 632014, Tamil Nadu, India
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- Department of Mathematics, School of Advanced Sciences, Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), Vellore 632014, Tamil Nadu, India
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Dabbagh R, Jamal A, Bhuiyan Masud JH, Titi MA, Amer YS, Khayat A, Alhazmi TS, Hneiny L, Baothman FA, Alkubeyyer M, Khan SA, Temsah MH. Harnessing Machine Learning in Early COVID-19 Detection and Prognosis: A Comprehensive Systematic Review. Cureus 2023; 15:e38373. [PMID: 37265897 PMCID: PMC10230599 DOI: 10.7759/cureus.38373] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 04/30/2023] [Indexed: 06/03/2023] Open
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During the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) testing faced limitations, prompting the exploration of machine learning (ML) alternatives for diagnosis and prognosis. Providing a comprehensive appraisal of such decision support systems and their use in COVID-19 management can aid the medical community in making informed decisions during the risk assessment of their patients, especially in low-resource settings. Therefore, the objective of this study was to systematically review the studies that predicted the diagnosis of COVID-19 or the severity of the disease using ML. Following the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis (PRISMA), we conducted a literature search of MEDLINE (OVID), Scopus, EMBASE, and IEEE Xplore from January 1 to June 31, 2020. The outcomes were COVID-19 diagnosis or prognostic measures such as death, need for mechanical ventilation, admission, and acute respiratory distress syndrome. We included peer-reviewed observational studies, clinical trials, research letters, case series, and reports. We extracted data about the study's country, setting, sample size, data source, dataset, diagnostic or prognostic outcomes, prediction measures, type of ML model, and measures of diagnostic accuracy. Bias was assessed using the Prediction model Risk Of Bias ASsessment Tool (PROBAST). This study was registered in the International Prospective Register of Systematic Reviews (PROSPERO), with the number CRD42020197109. The final records included for data extraction were 66. Forty-three (64%) studies used secondary data. The majority of studies were from Chinese authors (30%). Most of the literature (79%) relied on chest imaging for prediction, while the remainder used various laboratory indicators, including hematological, biochemical, and immunological markers. Thirteen studies explored predicting COVID-19 severity, while the rest predicted diagnosis. Seventy percent of the articles used deep learning models, while 30% used traditional ML algorithms. Most studies reported high sensitivity, specificity, and accuracy for the ML models (exceeding 90%). The overall concern about the risk of bias was "unclear" in 56% of the studies. This was mainly due to concerns about selection bias. ML may help identify COVID-19 patients in the early phase of the pandemic, particularly in the context of chest imaging. Although these studies reflect that these ML models exhibit high accuracy, the novelty of these models and the biases in dataset selection make using them as a replacement for the clinicians' cognitive decision-making questionable. Continued research is needed to enhance the robustness and reliability of ML systems in COVID-19 diagnosis and prognosis.
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- Rufaidah Dabbagh
- Family & Community Medicine Department, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, SAU
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- Family & Community Medicine Department, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, SAU
- Research Chair for Evidence-Based Health Care and Knowledge Translation, Family and Community Medicine Department, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, SAU
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- Quality Management Department, King Saud University Medical City, Riyadh, SAU
- Research Chair for Evidence-Based Health Care and Knowledge Translation, Family and Community Medicine Department, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, SAU
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- Pediatrics, Quality Management Department, King Saud University Medical City, Riyadh, SAU
- Research Chair for Evidence-Based Health Care and Knowledge Translation, Family and Community Medicine Department, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, SAU
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- Health Information Management Department, Prince Sultan Military College of Health Sciences, Al Dhahran, SAU
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- Family & Community Medicine Department, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, SAU
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- Medicine, Wegner Health Sciences Library, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, USA
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- Department of Information Systems, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, SAU
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- School of Computer Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, MYS
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- Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Department of Pediatrics, King Saud University, Riyadh, SAU
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Soundrapandiyan R, Naidu H, Karuppiah M, Maheswari M, Poonia RC. AI-based wavelet and stacked deep learning architecture for detecting coronavirus (COVID-19) from chest X-ray images. COMPUTERS & ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING : AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL 2023; 108:108711. [PMID: 37065503 PMCID: PMC10086108 DOI: 10.1016/j.compeleceng.2023.108711] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/15/2021] [Revised: 03/29/2023] [Accepted: 03/31/2023] [Indexed: 06/19/2023]
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A novel coronavirus (COVID-19), belonging to a family of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARs-CoV-2), was identified in Wuhan city, Hubei, China, in November 2019. The disease had already infected more than 681.529665 million people as of March 13, 2023. Hence, early detection and diagnosis of COVID-19 are essential. For this purpose, radiologists use medical images such as X-ray and computed tomography (CT) images for the diagnosis of COVID-19. It is very difficult for researchers to help radiologists to do automatic diagnoses by using traditional image processing methods. Therefore, a novel artificial intelligence (AI)-based deep learning model to detect COVID-19 from chest X-ray images is proposed. The proposed work uses a wavelet and stacked deep learning architecture (ResNet50, VGG19, Xception, and DarkNet19) named WavStaCovNet-19 to detect COVID-19 from chest X-ray images automatically. The proposed work has been tested on two publicly available datasets and achieved an accuracy of 94.24% and 96.10% on 4 classes and 3 classes, respectively. From the experimental results, we believe that the proposed work can surely be useful in the healthcare domain to detect COVID-19 with less time and cost, and with higher accuracy.
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- Rajkumar Soundrapandiyan
- School of Computer Science and Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore 632014, India
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- School of Computer Science and Engineering & Information Science, Presidency University, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560064, India
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- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai 600119, India
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- Department of Computer Science, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bengaluru, Karnataka 560029, India
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Karbasi Z, Gohari SH, Sabahi A. Bibliometric analysis of the use of artificial intelligence in COVID-19 based on scientific studies. Health Sci Rep 2023; 6:e1244. [PMID: 37152228 PMCID: PMC10158785 DOI: 10.1002/hsr2.1244] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/02/2022] [Revised: 04/11/2023] [Accepted: 04/16/2023] [Indexed: 05/09/2023] Open
Abstract
Background and Aims One such strategy is citation analysis used by researchers for research planning an article referred to by another article receives a "citation." By using bibliometric analysis, the development of research areas and authors' influence can be investigated. The current study aimed to identify and analyze the characteristics of 100 highly cited articles on the use of artificial intelligence concerning COVID-19. Methods On July 27, 2022, this database was searched using the keywords "artificial intelligence" and "COVID-19" in the topic. After extensive searching, all retrieved articles were sorted by the number of citations, and 100 highly cited articles were included based on the number of citations. The following data were extracted: year of publication, type of study, name of journal, country, number of citations, language, and keywords. Results The average number of citations for 100 highly cited articles was 138.54. The top three cited articles with 745, 596, and 549 citations. The top 100 articles were all in English and were published in 2020 and 2021. China was the most prolific country with 19 articles, followed by the United States with 15 articles and India with 10 articles. Conclusion The current bibliometric analysis demonstrated the significant growth of the use of artificial intelligence for COVID-19. Using these results, research priorities are more clearly defined, and researchers can focus on hot topics.
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Affiliation(s)
- Zahra Karbasi
- Medical Informatics Research Center, Institute for Futures Studies in HealthKerman University of Medical SciencesKermanIran
- Department of Health Information Sciences, Faculty of Management and Medical Information SciencesKerman University of Medical SciencesKermanIran
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- Medical Informatics Research Center, Institute for Futures Studies in HealthKerman University of Medical SciencesKermanIran
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- Department of Health Information Technology, Ferdows School of Health and Allied Medical SciencesBirjand University of Medical SciencesBirjandIran
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