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Chang JY, Makary MS. Evolving and Novel Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Thoracic Imaging. Diagnostics (Basel) 2024; 14:1456. [PMID: 39001346 PMCID: PMC11240935 DOI: 10.3390/diagnostics14131456] [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: 05/30/2024] [Revised: 07/01/2024] [Accepted: 07/06/2024] [Indexed: 07/16/2024] Open
Abstract
The advent of artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing medicine, particularly radiology. With the development of newer models, AI applications are demonstrating improved performance and versatile utility in the clinical setting. Thoracic imaging is an area of profound interest, given the prevalence of chest imaging and the significant health implications of thoracic diseases. This review aims to highlight the promising applications of AI within thoracic imaging. It examines the role of AI, including its contributions to improving diagnostic evaluation and interpretation, enhancing workflow, and aiding in invasive procedures. Next, it further highlights the current challenges and limitations faced by AI, such as the necessity of 'big data', ethical and legal considerations, and bias in representation. Lastly, it explores the potential directions for the application of AI in thoracic radiology.
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- Jin Y Chang
- Department of Radiology, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
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- Department of Radiology, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
- Division of Vascular and Interventional Radiology, Department of Radiology, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
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Shiri I, Salimi Y, Sirjani N, Razeghi B, Bagherieh S, Pakbin M, Mansouri Z, Hajianfar G, Avval AH, Askari D, Ghasemian M, Sandoughdaran S, Sohrabi A, Sadati E, Livani S, Iranpour P, Kolahi S, Khosravi B, Bijari S, Sayfollahi S, Atashzar MR, Hasanian M, Shahhamzeh A, Teimouri A, Goharpey N, Shirzad-Aski H, Karimi J, Radmard AR, Rezaei-Kalantari K, Oghli MG, Oveisi M, Vafaei Sadr A, Voloshynovskiy S, Zaidi H. Differential privacy preserved federated learning for prognostic modeling in COVID-19 patients using large multi-institutional chest CT dataset. Med Phys 2024; 51:4736-4747. [PMID: 38335175 DOI: 10.1002/mp.16964] [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: 10/05/2023] [Revised: 01/10/2024] [Accepted: 01/21/2024] [Indexed: 02/12/2024] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND Notwithstanding the encouraging results of previous studies reporting on the efficiency of deep learning (DL) in COVID-19 prognostication, clinical adoption of the developed methodology still needs to be improved. To overcome this limitation, we set out to predict the prognosis of a large multi-institutional cohort of patients with COVID-19 using a DL-based model. PURPOSE This study aimed to evaluate the performance of deep privacy-preserving federated learning (DPFL) in predicting COVID-19 outcomes using chest CT images. METHODS After applying inclusion and exclusion criteria, 3055 patients from 19 centers, including 1599 alive and 1456 deceased, were enrolled in this study. Data from all centers were split (randomly with stratification respective to each center and class) into a training/validation set (70%/10%) and a hold-out test set (20%). For the DL model, feature extraction was performed on 2D slices, and averaging was performed at the final layer to construct a 3D model for each scan. The DensNet model was used for feature extraction. The model was developed using centralized and FL approaches. For FL, we employed DPFL approaches. Membership inference attack was also evaluated in the FL strategy. For model evaluation, different metrics were reported in the hold-out test sets. In addition, models trained in two scenarios, centralized and FL, were compared using the DeLong test for statistical differences. RESULTS The centralized model achieved an accuracy of 0.76, while the DPFL model had an accuracy of 0.75. Both the centralized and DPFL models achieved a specificity of 0.77. The centralized model achieved a sensitivity of 0.74, while the DPFL model had a sensitivity of 0.73. A mean AUC of 0.82 and 0.81 with 95% confidence intervals of (95% CI: 0.79-0.85) and (95% CI: 0.77-0.84) were achieved by the centralized model and the DPFL model, respectively. The DeLong test did not prove statistically significant differences between the two models (p-value = 0.98). The AUC values for the inference attacks fluctuate between 0.49 and 0.51, with an average of 0.50 ± 0.003 and 95% CI for the mean AUC of 0.500 to 0.501. CONCLUSION The performance of the proposed model was comparable to centralized models while operating on large and heterogeneous multi-institutional datasets. In addition, the model was resistant to inference attacks, ensuring the privacy of shared data during the training process.
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- Isaac Shiri
- Division of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Geneva University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Division of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Geneva University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Research and Development Department, Med Fanavarn Plus Co, Karaj, Iran
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- Department of Computer Science, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- School of Medicine, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran
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- Imaging Department, Qom University of Medical Sciences, Qom, Iran
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- Division of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Geneva University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Division of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Geneva University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Department of Radiology Technology, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Radiology, Shahid Beheshti Hospital, Qom University of Medical Sciences, Qom, Iran
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- Department of Clinical Oncology, Royal Surrey County Hospital, Guildford, UK
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- Radin Makian Azma Mehr Ltd., Radinmehr Veterinary Laboratory, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Gorgan, Iran
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- Department of Medical Physics, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
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- Clinical Research Development Unit (CRDU), Sayad Shirazi Hospital, Golestan University of Medical Sciences, Gorgan, Iran
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- Medical Imaging Research Center, Department of Radiology, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran
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- Department of Radiology, School of Medicine, Advanced Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology Research Center (ADIR), Imam Khomeini Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Digestive Diseases Research Center, Digestive Diseases Research Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Medical Physics, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Immunology, School of Medicine, Fasa University of Medical Sciences, Fasa, Iran
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- Department of Radiology, Arak University of Medical Sciences, Arak, Iran
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- Clinical research development center, Qom University of Medical Sciences, Qom, Iran
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- Medical Imaging Research Center, Department of Radiology, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran
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- Department of radiation oncology, Shohada-e Tajrish Hospital, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Infectious Disease, School of Medicine, Fasa University of Medical Sciences, Fasa, Iran
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- Department of Radiology, Shariati Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Rajaie Cardiovascular, Medical & Research Center, Iran University of Medical Science, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Computer Science, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Department of Public Health Sciences, College of Medicine, Pennsylvania State University, Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Division of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Geneva University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland
- Department of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
- Department of Nuclear Medicine, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
- University Research and Innovation Center, Óbuda University, Budapest, Hungary
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Yu H, Yang Z, Wei Y, Shi W, Zhu M, Liu L, Wang M, Wang Y, Zhu Q, Liang Z, Zhao W, Chen LA. Computed tomography-based radiomics improves non-invasive diagnosis of Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia in non-HIV patients: a retrospective study. BMC Pulm Med 2024; 24:11. [PMID: 38167022 PMCID: PMC10762815 DOI: 10.1186/s12890-023-02827-4] [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: 02/02/2023] [Accepted: 12/21/2023] [Indexed: 01/05/2024] Open
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BACKGROUND Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia (PCP) could be fatal to patients without human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. Current diagnostic methods are either invasive or inaccurate. We aimed to establish an accurate and non-invasive radiomics-based way to identify the risk of PCP infection in non-HIV patients with computed tomography (CT) manifestation of pneumonia. METHODS This is a retrospective study including non-HIV patients hospitalized for suspected PCP from January 2010 to December 2022 in one hospital. The patients were randomized in a 7:3 ratio into training and validation cohorts. Computed tomography (CT)-based radiomics features were extracted automatically and used to construct a radiomics model. A diagnostic model with traditional clinical and CT features was also built. The area under the curve (AUC) were calculated and used to evaluate the diagnostic performance of the models. The combination of the radiomics features and serum β-D-glucan levels was also evaluated for PCP diagnosis. RESULTS A total of 140 patients (PCP: N = 61, non-PCP: N = 79) were randomized into training (N = 97) and validation (N = 43) cohorts. The radiomics model consisting of nine radiomic features performed significantly better (AUC = 0.954; 95% CI: 0.898-1.000) than the traditional model consisting of serum β-D-glucan levels (AUC = 0.752; 95% CI: 0.597-0.908) in identifying PCP (P = 0.002). The combination of radiomics features and serum β-D-glucan levels showed an accuracy of 95.8% for identifying PCP infection (positive predictive value: 95.7%, negative predictive value: 95.8%). CONCLUSIONS Radiomics showed good diagnostic performance in differentiating PCP from other types of pneumonia in non-HIV patients. A combined diagnostic method including radiomics and serum β-D-glucan has the potential to provide an accurate and non-invasive way to identify the risk of PCP infection in non-HIV patients with CT manifestation of pneumonia. TRIAL REGISTRATION ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT05701631).
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- Hang Yu
- Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Medical School of Chinese People's Liberation Army, Beijing, China
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- Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, the Eighth Medical Center, Chinese People's Liberation Army General Hospital, Beijing, China
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- Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Medical School of Chinese People's Liberation Army, Beijing, China
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- Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Medical School of Chinese People's Liberation Army, Beijing, China
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- Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China
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- Department of Nutrition, the First Medical Center, Chinese People's Liberation Army General Hospital, Beijing, China
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- Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Medical School of Chinese People's Liberation Army, Beijing, China
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- Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Medical School of Chinese People's Liberation Army, Beijing, China
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- Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, the Eighth Medical Center, Chinese People's Liberation Army General Hospital, Beijing, China
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- Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, the Eighth Medical Center, Chinese People's Liberation Army General Hospital, Beijing, China
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- Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, the Eighth Medical Center, Chinese People's Liberation Army General Hospital, Beijing, China
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- Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, the Eighth Medical Center, Chinese People's Liberation Army General Hospital, Beijing, China.
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Santosh KC, GhoshRoy D, Nakarmi S. A Systematic Review on Deep Structured Learning for COVID-19 Screening Using Chest CT from 2020 to 2022. Healthcare (Basel) 2023; 11:2388. [PMID: 37685422 PMCID: PMC10486542 DOI: 10.3390/healthcare11172388] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/12/2023] [Revised: 08/16/2023] [Accepted: 08/22/2023] [Indexed: 09/10/2023] Open
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The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic in Wuhan in 2019 led to the discovery of a novel coronavirus. The World Health Organization (WHO) designated it as a global pandemic on 11 March 2020 due to its rapid and widespread transmission. Its impact has had profound implications, particularly in the realm of public health. Extensive scientific endeavors have been directed towards devising effective treatment strategies and vaccines. Within the healthcare and medical imaging domain, the application of artificial intelligence (AI) has brought significant advantages. This study delves into peer-reviewed research articles spanning the years 2020 to 2022, focusing on AI-driven methodologies for the analysis and screening of COVID-19 through chest CT scan data. We assess the efficacy of deep learning algorithms in facilitating decision making processes. Our exploration encompasses various facets, including data collection, systematic contributions, emerging techniques, and encountered challenges. However, the comparison of outcomes between 2020 and 2022 proves intricate due to shifts in dataset magnitudes over time. The initiatives aimed at developing AI-powered tools for the detection, localization, and segmentation of COVID-19 cases are primarily centered on educational and training contexts. We deliberate on their merits and constraints, particularly in the context of necessitating cross-population train/test models. Our analysis encompassed a review of 231 research publications, bolstered by a meta-analysis employing search keywords (COVID-19 OR Coronavirus) AND chest CT AND (deep learning OR artificial intelligence OR medical imaging) on both the PubMed Central Repository and Web of Science platforms.
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- KC Santosh
- 2AI: Applied Artificial Intelligence Research Lab, Vermillion, SD 57069, USA
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- School of Automation, Banasthali Vidyapith, Tonk 304022, Rajasthan, India;
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- Department of Computer Science, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD 57069, USA;
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Chrzan R, Wizner B, Sydor W, Wojciechowska W, Popiela T, Bociąga-Jasik M, Olszanecka A, Strach M. Artificial intelligence guided HRCT assessment predicts the severity of COVID-19 pneumonia based on clinical parameters. BMC Infect Dis 2023; 23:314. [PMID: 37165346 PMCID: PMC10170419 DOI: 10.1186/s12879-023-08303-y] [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: 08/27/2022] [Accepted: 05/03/2023] [Indexed: 05/12/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND The purpose of the study was to compare the results of AI (artificial intelligence) analysis of the extent of pulmonary lesions on HRCT (high resolution computed tomography) images in COVID-19 pneumonia, with clinical data including laboratory markers of inflammation, to verify whether AI HRCT assessment can predict the clinical severity of COVID-19 pneumonia. METHODS The analyzed group consisted of 388 patients with COVID-19 pneumonia, with automatically analyzed HRCT parameters of volume: AIV (absolute inflammation), AGV (absolute ground glass), ACV (absolute consolidation), PIV (percentage inflammation), PGV (percentage ground glass), PCV (percentage consolidation). Clinical data included: age, sex, admission parameters: respiratory rate, oxygen saturation, CRP (C-reactive protein), IL6 (interleukin 6), IG - immature granulocytes, WBC (white blood count), neutrophil count, lymphocyte count, serum ferritin, LDH (lactate dehydrogenase), NIH (National Institute of Health) severity score; parameters of clinical course: in-hospital death, transfer to the ICU (intensive care unit), length of hospital stay. RESULTS The highest correlation coefficients were found for PGV, PIV, with LDH (respectively 0.65, 0.64); PIV, PGV, with oxygen saturation (respectively - 0.53, -0.52); AIV, AGV, with CRP (respectively 0.48, 0.46); AGV, AIV, with ferritin (respectively 0.46, 0.45). Patients with critical pneumonia had significantly lower oxygen saturation, and higher levels of immune-inflammatory biomarkers on admission. The radiological parameters of lung involvement proved to be strong predictors of transfer to the ICU (in particular, PGV ≥ cut-off point 29% with Odds Ratio (OR): 7.53) and in-hospital death (in particular: AIV ≥ cut-off point 831 cm3 with OR: 4.31). CONCLUSIONS Automatic analysis of HRCT images by AI may be a valuable method for predicting the severity of COVID-19 pneumonia. The radiological parameters of lung involvement correlate with laboratory markers of inflammation, and are strong predictors of transfer to the ICU and in-hospital death from COVID-19. TRIAL REGISTRATION National Center for Research and Development CRACoV-HHS project, contract number SZPITALE-JEDNOIMIENNE/18/2020.
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- Robert Chrzan
- Department of Radiology, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Kopernika 19, Krakow, 31-501, Poland.
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- Department of Internal Medicine and Gerontology, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Krakow, Poland
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- Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Krakow, Poland
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- 1st Department of Cardiology, Interventional Electrocardiology and Arterial Hypertension, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Krakow, Poland
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- Department of Radiology, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Kopernika 19, Krakow, 31-501, Poland
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Krakow, Poland
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- 1st Department of Cardiology, Interventional Electrocardiology and Arterial Hypertension, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Krakow, Poland
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- Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Krakow, Poland
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Murugappan M, Bourisly AK, Prakash NB, Sumithra MG, Acharya UR. Automated semantic lung segmentation in chest CT images using deep neural network. Neural Comput Appl 2023; 35:15343-15364. [PMID: 37273912 PMCID: PMC10088735 DOI: 10.1007/s00521-023-08407-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/11/2022] [Accepted: 02/13/2023] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Lung segmentation algorithms play a significant role in segmenting theinfected regions in the lungs. This work aims to develop a computationally efficient and robust deep learning model for lung segmentation using chest computed tomography (CT) images with DeepLabV3 + networks for two-class (background and lung field) and four-class (ground-glass opacities, background, consolidation, and lung field). In this work, we investigate the performance of the DeepLabV3 + network with five pretrained networks: Xception, ResNet-18, Inception-ResNet-v2, MobileNet-v2 and ResNet-50. A publicly available database for COVID-19 that contains 750 chest CT images and corresponding pixel-labeled images are used to develop the deep learning model. The segmentation performance has been assessed using five performance measures: Intersection of Union (IoU), Weighted IoU, Balance F1 score, pixel accu-racy, and global accuracy. The experimental results of this work confirm that the DeepLabV3 + network with ResNet-18 and a batch size of 8 have a higher performance for two-class segmentation. DeepLabV3 + network coupled with ResNet-50 and a batch size of 16 yielded better results for four-class segmentation compared to other pretrained networks. Besides, the ResNet with a fewer number of layers is highly adequate for developing a more robust lung segmentation network with lesser computational complexity compared to the conventional DeepLabV3 + network with Xception. This present work proposes a unified DeepLabV3 + network to delineate the two and four different regions automatically using CT images for CoVID-19 patients. Our developed automated segmented model can be further developed to be used as a clinical diagnosis system for CoVID-19 as well as assist clinicians in providing an accurate second opinion CoVID-19 diagnosis.
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- M. Murugappan
- Intelligent Signal Processing (ISP) Research Lab, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Kuwait College of Science and Technology, Block 4, Doha, Kuwait
- Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, School of Engineering, Vels Institute of Science, Technology, and Advanced Studies, Chennai, India
- Centre of Excellence for Unmanned Aerial Systems (CoEUAS), Universiti Malaysia Perlis, 02600 Perlis, Malaysia
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- Department of Physiology, Kuwait University, Kuwait City, Kuwait
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- Department of Electrical and Electronics and Engineering, National Engineering College, Kovilpatti, Tamil Nadu India
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Dr. N. G. P. Institute of Technology, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu India
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- Department of Electronics and Computer Engineering, Ngee Ann Polytechnic, Singapore, Singapore
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Science and Technology, Singapore School of Social Sciences, Singapore, Singapore
- Department of Bioinformatics and Medical Engineering, Asia University, Taichung, Taiwan
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Chrzan R, Polok K, Antczak J, Siwiec-Koźlik A, Jagiełło W, Popiela T. The value of lung ultrasound in COVID-19 pneumonia, verified by high resolution computed tomography assessed by artificial intelligence. BMC Infect Dis 2023; 23:195. [PMID: 37003997 PMCID: PMC10064611 DOI: 10.1186/s12879-023-08173-4] [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: 09/29/2022] [Accepted: 03/17/2023] [Indexed: 04/03/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Lung ultrasound (LUS) is an increasingly popular imaging method in clinical practice. It became particularly important during the COVID-19 pandemic due to its mobility and ease of use compared to high-resolution computed tomography (HRCT). The objective of this study was to assess the value of LUS in quantifying the degree of lung involvement and in discrimination of lesion types in the course of COVID-19 pneumonia as compared to HRCT analyzed by the artificial intelligence (AI). METHODS This was a prospective observational study including adult patients hospitalized due to COVID-19 in whom initial HRCT and LUS were performed with an interval < 72 h. HRCT assessment was performed automatically by AI. We evaluated the correlations between the inflammation volume assessed both in LUS and HRCT, between LUS results and the HRCT structure of inflammation, and between LUS and the laboratory markers of inflammation. Additionally we compared the LUS results in subgroups depending on the respiratory failure throughout the hospitalization. RESULTS Study group comprised 65 patients, median 63 years old. For both lungs, the median LUS score was 19 (IQR-interquartile range 11-24) and the median CT score was 22 (IQR 16-26). Strong correlations were found between LUS and CT scores (for both lungs r = 0.75), and between LUS score and percentage inflammation volume (PIV) (r = 0.69). The correlations remained significant, if weakened, for individual lung lobes. The correlations between LUS score and the value of the percentage consolidation volume (PCV) divided by percentage ground glass volume (PGV), were weak or not significant. We found significant correlation between LUS score and C-reactive protein (r = 0.55), and between LUS score and interleukin 6 (r = 0.39). LUS score was significantly higher in subgroups with more severe respiratory failure. CONCLUSIONS LUS can be regarded as an accurate method to evaluate the extent of COVID-19 pneumonia and as a promising tool to estimate its clinical severity. Evaluation of LUS in the assessment of the structure of inflammation, requires further studies in the course of the disease. TRIAL REGISTRATION The study has been preregistered 13 Aug 2020 on clinicaltrials.gov with the number NCT04513210.
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- Robert Chrzan
- Department of Radiology, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Kopernika 19, 31-501, Krakow, Poland.
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- Department of Intensive Care and Perioperative Medicine, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Krakow, Poland
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- Department of Neurology, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Krakow, Poland
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- Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Krakow, Poland
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- Second Department of Internal Medicine, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Krakow, Poland
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- Department of Radiology, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Kopernika 19, 31-501, Krakow, Poland
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D S, R K. Prognosticating various acute covid lung disorders from COVID-19 patient using chest CT Images. ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE 2023; 119:105820. [PMID: 36644478 PMCID: PMC9829610 DOI: 10.1016/j.engappai.2023.105820] [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: 10/01/2022] [Revised: 12/12/2022] [Accepted: 01/02/2023] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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The global spread of coronavirus illness has surged dramatically, resulting in a catastrophic pandemic situation. Despite this, accurate screening remains a significant challenge due to difficulties in categorizing infection regions and the minuscule difference between typical pneumonia and COVID (Coronavirus Disease) pneumonia. Diagnosing COVID-19 using the Mask Regional-Convolutional Neural Network (Mask R-CNN) is proposed to classify the chest computerized tomographic (CT) images into COVID-positive and COVID-negative. Covid-19 has a direct effect on the lungs, causing damage to the alveoli, which leads to various lung complications. By fusing multi-class data, the severity level of the patients can be classified using the meta-learning few-shot learning technique with the residual network with 50 layers deep (ResNet-50) as the base classifier. It has been tested with the outcome of COVID positive chest CT image data. From these various classes, it is possible to predict the onset possibilities of acute COVID lung disorders such as sepsis, acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), COVID pneumonia, COVID bronchitis, etc. The first method of classification is proposed to diagnose whether the patient is affected by COVID-19 or not; it achieves a mean Average Precision (mAP) of 91.52% and G-mean of 97.69% with 98.60% of classification accuracy. The second method of classification is proposed for the detection of various acute lung disorders based on severity provide better performance in all the four stages, the average accuracy is of 95.4%, the G-mean for multiclass achieves 94.02%, and the AUC is 93.27% compared with the cutting-edge techniques. It enables healthcare professionals to correctly detect severity for potential treatments.
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- Suganya D
- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Puducherry Technological University, Puducherry 605014, India
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- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Puducherry Technological University, Puducherry 605014, India
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Topff L, Groot Lipman KBW, Guffens F, Wittenberg R, Bartels-Rutten A, van Veenendaal G, Hess M, Lamerigts K, Wakkie J, Ranschaert E, Trebeschi S, Visser JJ, Beets-Tan RGH, Snoeckx A, Kint P, Van Hoe L, Quattrocchi CC, Dickerscheid D, Lounis S, Schulze E, Sjer AEB, van Vucht N, Tielbeek JA, Raat F, Eijspaart D, Abbas A. Is the generalizability of a developed artificial intelligence algorithm for COVID-19 on chest CT sufficient for clinical use? Results from the International Consortium for COVID-19 Imaging AI (ICOVAI). Eur Radiol 2023; 33:4249-4258. [PMID: 36651954 PMCID: PMC9848031 DOI: 10.1007/s00330-022-09303-3] [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: 06/12/2022] [Revised: 10/14/2022] [Accepted: 11/18/2022] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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OBJECTIVES Only few published artificial intelligence (AI) studies for COVID-19 imaging have been externally validated. Assessing the generalizability of developed models is essential, especially when considering clinical implementation. We report the development of the International Consortium for COVID-19 Imaging AI (ICOVAI) model and perform independent external validation. METHODS The ICOVAI model was developed using multicenter data (n = 1286 CT scans) to quantify disease extent and assess COVID-19 likelihood using the COVID-19 Reporting and Data System (CO-RADS). A ResUNet model was modified to automatically delineate lung contours and infectious lung opacities on CT scans, after which a random forest predicted the CO-RADS score. After internal testing, the model was externally validated on a multicenter dataset (n = 400) by independent researchers. CO-RADS classification performance was calculated using linearly weighted Cohen's kappa and segmentation performance using Dice Similarity Coefficient (DSC). RESULTS Regarding internal versus external testing, segmentation performance of lung contours was equally excellent (DSC = 0.97 vs. DSC = 0.97, p = 0.97). Lung opacities segmentation performance was adequate internally (DSC = 0.76), but significantly worse on external validation (DSC = 0.59, p < 0.0001). For CO-RADS classification, agreement with radiologists on the internal set was substantial (kappa = 0.78), but significantly lower on the external set (kappa = 0.62, p < 0.0001). CONCLUSION In this multicenter study, a model developed for CO-RADS score prediction and quantification of COVID-19 disease extent was found to have a significant reduction in performance on independent external validation versus internal testing. The limited reproducibility of the model restricted its potential for clinical use. The study demonstrates the importance of independent external validation of AI models. KEY POINTS • The ICOVAI model for prediction of CO-RADS and quantification of disease extent on chest CT of COVID-19 patients was developed using a large sample of multicenter data. • There was substantial performance on internal testing; however, performance was significantly reduced on external validation, performed by independent researchers. The limited generalizability of the model restricts its potential for clinical use. • Results of AI models for COVID-19 imaging on internal tests may not generalize well to external data, demonstrating the importance of independent external validation.
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- Laurens Topff
- Department of Radiology, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Plesmanlaan 121, 1066, CX, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. .,GROW School for Oncology and Reproduction, Maastricht University, Universiteitssingel 40, 6229 ER, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
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- Department of Radiology, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Plesmanlaan 121, 1066, CX, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.,GROW School for Oncology and Reproduction, Maastricht University, Universiteitssingel 40, 6229 ER, Maastricht, The Netherlands.,Department of Thoracic Oncology, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Plesmanlaan 121, 1066, CX, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Radiology, University Hospitals Leuven, Herestraat 49, 3000, Leuven, Belgium
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- Department of Radiology, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Plesmanlaan 121, 1066, CX, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Radiology, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Plesmanlaan 121, 1066, CX, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Radiology, St. Nikolaus Hospital, Hufengasse 4-8, 4700, Eupen, Belgium.,Ghent University, C. Heymanslaan 10, 9000, Ghent, Belgium
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- Department of Radiology, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Plesmanlaan 121, 1066, CX, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Dr. Molewaterplein 40, 3015, GD, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Radiology, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Plesmanlaan 121, 1066, CX, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.,GROW School for Oncology and Reproduction, Maastricht University, Universiteitssingel 40, 6229 ER, Maastricht, The Netherlands.,Institute of Regional Health Research, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230, Odense, Denmark
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Chen J, Li Y, Guo L, Zhou X, Zhu Y, He Q, Han H, Feng Q. Machine learning techniques for CT imaging diagnosis of novel coronavirus pneumonia: a review. Neural Comput Appl 2022; 36:1-19. [PMID: 36159188 PMCID: PMC9483435 DOI: 10.1007/s00521-022-07709-0] [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: 04/13/2022] [Accepted: 08/04/2022] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Since 2020, novel coronavirus pneumonia has been spreading rapidly around the world, bringing tremendous pressure on medical diagnosis and treatment for hospitals. Medical imaging methods, such as computed tomography (CT), play a crucial role in diagnosing and treating COVID-19. A large number of CT images (with large volume) are produced during the CT-based medical diagnosis. In such a situation, the diagnostic judgement by human eyes on the thousands of CT images is inefficient and time-consuming. Recently, in order to improve diagnostic efficiency, the machine learning technology is being widely used in computer-aided diagnosis and treatment systems (i.e., CT Imaging) to help doctors perform accurate analysis and provide them with effective diagnostic decision support. In this paper, we comprehensively review these frequently used machine learning methods applied in the CT Imaging Diagnosis for the COVID-19, discuss the machine learning-based applications from the various kinds of aspects including the image acquisition and pre-processing, image segmentation, quantitative analysis and diagnosis, and disease follow-up and prognosis. Moreover, we also discuss the limitations of the up-to-date machine learning technology in the context of CT imaging computer-aided diagnosis.
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- Jingjing Chen
- Zhejiang University City College, Hangzhou, China
- Zhijiang College of Zhejiang University of Technology, Shaoxing, China
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- Faculty of Science, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, China
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- College of Chemical Engineering, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, China
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- Faculty of Data Science, Shiga University, Hikone, Japan
- RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project, Tokyo, Japan
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- College of Chemical Engineering, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, China
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- School of Pharmacy, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- School of Medicine, Zhejiang University City College, Hangzhou, China
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- College of Chemical Engineering, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, China
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Ortiz-Vilchis P, Ramirez-Arellano A. An Entropy-Based Measure of Complexity: An Application in Lung-Damage. ENTROPY (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2022; 24:1119. [PMID: 36010783 PMCID: PMC9407132 DOI: 10.3390/e24081119] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/18/2022] [Revised: 07/23/2022] [Accepted: 08/12/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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The computed tomography (CT) chest is a tool for diagnostic tests and the early evaluation of lung infections, pulmonary interstitial damage, and complications caused by common pneumonia and COVID-19. Additionally, computer-aided diagnostic systems and methods based on entropy, fractality, and deep learning have been implemented to analyse lung CT images. This article aims to introduce an Entropy-based Measure of Complexity (EMC). In addition, derived from EMC, a Lung Damage Measure (LDM) is introduced to show a medical application. CT scans of 486 healthy subjects, 263 diagnosed with COVID-19, and 329 with pneumonia were analysed using the LDM. The statistical analysis shows a significant difference in LDM between healthy subjects and those suffering from COVID-19 and common pneumonia. The LDM of common pneumonia was the highest, followed by COVID-19 and healthy subjects. Furthermore, LDM increased as much as clinical classification and CO-RADS scores. Thus, LDM is a measure that could be used to determine or confirm the scored severity. On the other hand, the d-summable information model best fits the information obtained by the covering of the CT; thus, it can be the cornerstone for formulating a fractional LDM.
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Gomes R, Kamrowski C, Langlois J, Rozario P, Dircks I, Grottodden K, Martinez M, Tee WZ, Sargeant K, LaFleur C, Haley M. A Comprehensive Review of Machine Learning Used to Combat COVID-19. Diagnostics (Basel) 2022; 12:1853. [PMID: 36010204 PMCID: PMC9406981 DOI: 10.3390/diagnostics12081853] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2022] [Revised: 07/22/2022] [Accepted: 07/26/2022] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has had a significant impact on global health since the start of the pandemic in 2019. As of June 2022, over 539 million cases have been confirmed worldwide with over 6.3 million deaths as a result. Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions such as machine learning and deep learning have played a major part in this pandemic for the diagnosis and treatment of COVID-19. In this research, we review these modern tools deployed to solve a variety of complex problems. We explore research that focused on analyzing medical images using AI models for identification, classification, and tissue segmentation of the disease. We also explore prognostic models that were developed to predict health outcomes and optimize the allocation of scarce medical resources. Longitudinal studies were conducted to better understand COVID-19 and its effects on patients over a period of time. This comprehensive review of the different AI methods and modeling efforts will shed light on the role that AI has played and what path it intends to take in the fight against COVID-19.
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- Rahul Gomes
- Department of Computer Science, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Eau Claire, WI 54701, USA; (C.K.); (J.L.); (I.D.); (K.G.); (M.M.); (W.Z.T.); (K.S.); (C.L.); (M.H.)
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- Department of Computer Science, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Eau Claire, WI 54701, USA; (C.K.); (J.L.); (I.D.); (K.G.); (M.M.); (W.Z.T.); (K.S.); (C.L.); (M.H.)
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- Department of Computer Science, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Eau Claire, WI 54701, USA; (C.K.); (J.L.); (I.D.); (K.G.); (M.M.); (W.Z.T.); (K.S.); (C.L.); (M.H.)
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- Department of Geography and Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Eau Claire, WI 54701, USA;
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- Department of Computer Science, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Eau Claire, WI 54701, USA; (C.K.); (J.L.); (I.D.); (K.G.); (M.M.); (W.Z.T.); (K.S.); (C.L.); (M.H.)
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- Department of Computer Science, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Eau Claire, WI 54701, USA; (C.K.); (J.L.); (I.D.); (K.G.); (M.M.); (W.Z.T.); (K.S.); (C.L.); (M.H.)
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- Department of Computer Science, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Eau Claire, WI 54701, USA; (C.K.); (J.L.); (I.D.); (K.G.); (M.M.); (W.Z.T.); (K.S.); (C.L.); (M.H.)
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- Department of Computer Science, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Eau Claire, WI 54701, USA; (C.K.); (J.L.); (I.D.); (K.G.); (M.M.); (W.Z.T.); (K.S.); (C.L.); (M.H.)
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- Department of Computer Science, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Eau Claire, WI 54701, USA; (C.K.); (J.L.); (I.D.); (K.G.); (M.M.); (W.Z.T.); (K.S.); (C.L.); (M.H.)
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- Department of Computer Science, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Eau Claire, WI 54701, USA; (C.K.); (J.L.); (I.D.); (K.G.); (M.M.); (W.Z.T.); (K.S.); (C.L.); (M.H.)
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- Department of Computer Science, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Eau Claire, WI 54701, USA; (C.K.); (J.L.); (I.D.); (K.G.); (M.M.); (W.Z.T.); (K.S.); (C.L.); (M.H.)
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Aswathy AL, Anand HS, Chandra SSV. COVID-19 severity detection using machine learning techniques from CT-images. EVOLUTIONARY INTELLIGENCE 2022; 16:1-9. [PMID: 35765538 PMCID: PMC9226273 DOI: 10.1007/s12065-022-00739-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/05/2021] [Revised: 01/27/2022] [Accepted: 05/06/2022] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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COVID-19 has spread worldwide and the World Health Organization was forced to list it as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. The disease has severely impacted most of the people because it affects the lung and causes severe breathing problems and lung infections. Differentiating other lung ailments from COVID-19 infection and determining the severity is a challenging process. Doctors can give vital life-saving services and support patients' lives only if the severity of their condition is determined. This work proposed a two-step approach for detecting the COVID-19 infection from the lung CT images and determining the severity of the patient's illness. To extract the features, pre-trained models are used, and by analyzing them, integrated the features from AlexNet, DenseNet-201, and ResNet-50. The COVID-19 detection is carried out by using an Artificial Neural Network(ANN) model. After the COVID-19 infection has been identified, severity detection is performed. For that, image features are combined with the clinical data and is classified as High, Moderate, Low with the help of Cubic Support Vector Machine(SVM). By considering three severity levels, patients with high risk can be given more attention. The method was tested on a publicly available dataset and obtained an accuracy of 92.0%, sensitivity of 96.0%, and an F1-Score of 91.44% for COVID-19 detection and got overall accuracy of 90.0% for COVID-19 severity detection for three classes.
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- A. L. Aswathy
- Department of Computer Science, University of Kerala, Trivandrum, Kerala India
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- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Muthoot Institute of Technology and Science, Kochi, Kerala India
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- Department of Computer Science, University of Kerala, Trivandrum, Kerala India
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Lung’s Segmentation Using Context-Aware Regressive Conditional GAN. APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL 2022. [DOI: 10.3390/app12125768] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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After declaring COVID-19 pneumonia as a pandemic, researchers promptly advanced to seek solutions for patients fighting this fatal disease. Computed tomography (CT) scans offer valuable insight into how COVID-19 infection affects the lungs. Analysis of CT scans is very significant, especially when physicians are striving for quick solutions. This study successfully segmented lung infection due to COVID-19 and provided a physician with a quantitative analysis of the condition. COVID-19 lesions often occur near and over parenchyma walls, which are denser and exhibit lower contrast than the tissues outside the parenchyma. We applied Adoptive Wallis and Gaussian filter alternatively to regulate the outlining of the lungs and lesions near the parenchyma. We proposed a context-aware conditional generative adversarial network (CGAN) with gradient penalty and spectral normalization for automatic segmentation of lungs and lesion segmentation. The proposed CGAN implements higher-order statistics when compared to traditional deep-learning models. The proposed CGAN produced promising results for lung segmentation. Similarly, CGAN has shown outstanding results for COVID-19 lesions segmentation with an accuracy of 99.91%, DSC of 92.91%, and AJC of 92.91%. Moreover, we achieved an accuracy of 99.87%, DSC of 96.77%, and AJC of 95.59% for lung segmentation. Additionally, the suggested network attained a sensitivity of 100%, 81.02%, 76.45%, and 99.01%, respectively, for critical, severe, moderate, and mild infection severity levels. The proposed model outperformed state-of-the-art techniques for the COVID-19 segmentation and detection cases.
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Han X, Yu Z, Zhuo Y, Zhao B, Ren Y, Lamm L, Xue X, Feng J, Marr C, Shan F, Peng T, Zhang XY. The value of longitudinal clinical data and paired CT scans in predicting the deterioration of COVID-19 revealed by an artificial intelligence system. iScience 2022; 25:104227. [PMID: 35434542 PMCID: PMC8989658 DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2022.104227] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/17/2021] [Revised: 03/10/2022] [Accepted: 04/05/2022] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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The respective value of clinical data and CT examinations in predicting COVID-19 progression is unclear, because the CT scans and clinical data previously used are not synchronized in time. To address this issue, we collected 119 COVID-19 patients with 341 longitudinal CT scans and paired clinical data, and we developed an AI system for the prediction of COVID-19 deterioration. By combining features extracted from CT and clinical data with our system, we can predict whether a patient will develop severe symptoms during hospitalization. Complementary to clinical data, CT examinations show significant add-on values for the prediction of COVID-19 progression in the early stage of COVID-19, especially in the 6th to 8th day after the symptom onset, indicating that this is the ideal time window for the introduction of CT examinations. We release our AI system to provide clinicians with additional assistance to optimize CT usage in the clinical workflow. COVID-19 patients with 341 longitudinal CT scans and paired clinical data included A new AI model for the prediction of COVID-19 progression was developed CT scans show significant add-on value over clinical data for the prediction Day 6–8 after the onset of COVID-19 symptoms is an ideal time window for a CT scan
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- Xiaoyang Han
- Institute of Science and Technology for Brain-Inspired Intelligence, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China.,Key Laboratory of Computational Neuroscience and Brain-Inspired Intelligence, Ministry of Education, Shanghai 200433, China
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- Institute of Science and Technology for Brain-Inspired Intelligence, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China.,Key Laboratory of Computational Neuroscience and Brain-Inspired Intelligence, Ministry of Education, Shanghai 200433, China
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- Department of Radiology, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, China.,Department of Radiology, Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center, Fudan University, Shanghai 201508, China
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- Institute of Science and Technology for Brain-Inspired Intelligence, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China.,Key Laboratory of Computational Neuroscience and Brain-Inspired Intelligence, Ministry of Education, Shanghai 200433, China
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- Department of Radiology, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- Institute of AI for Health, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Ingolstädter Landstraße 1, D-85764 Neuherberg, Germany.,Helmholtz AI, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Ingolstädter Landstraße 1, D-85764 Neuherberg, Germany
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- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Intelligent Information Processing, School of Computer Science, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- Institute of Science and Technology for Brain-Inspired Intelligence, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China.,Key Laboratory of Computational Neuroscience and Brain-Inspired Intelligence, Ministry of Education, Shanghai 200433, China
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- Institute of AI for Health, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Ingolstädter Landstraße 1, D-85764 Neuherberg, Germany
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- Department of Radiology, Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center, Fudan University, Shanghai 201508, China
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- Helmholtz AI, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Ingolstädter Landstraße 1, D-85764 Neuherberg, Germany
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- Institute of Science and Technology for Brain-Inspired Intelligence, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China.,Key Laboratory of Computational Neuroscience and Brain-Inspired Intelligence, Ministry of Education, Shanghai 200433, China.,MOE Frontiers Center for Brain Science, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
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Karthik R, Menaka R, Hariharan M, Won D. CT-based severity assessment for COVID-19 using weakly supervised non-local CNN. Appl Soft Comput 2022; 121:108765. [PMID: 35370523 PMCID: PMC8962065 DOI: 10.1016/j.asoc.2022.108765] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/07/2021] [Revised: 02/28/2022] [Accepted: 03/17/2022] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
Abstract
Evaluating patient criticality is the foremost step in administering appropriate COVID-19 treatment protocols. Learning an Artificial Intelligence (AI) model from clinical data for automatic risk-stratification enables accelerated response to patients displaying critical indicators. Chest CT manifestations including ground-glass opacities and consolidations are a reliable indicator for prognostic studies and show variability with patient condition. To this end, we propose a novel attention framework to estimate COVID-19 severity as a regression score from a weakly annotated CT scan dataset. It takes a non-locality approach that correlates features across different parts and spatial scales of the 3D scan. An explicit guidance mechanism from limited infection labeling drives attention refinement and feature modulation. The resulting encoded representation is further enriched through cross-channel attention. The attention model also infuses global contextual awareness into the deep voxel features by querying the base CT scan to mine relevant features. Consequently, it learns to effectively localize its focus region and chisel out the infection precisely. Experimental validation on the MosMed dataset shows that the proposed architecture has significant potential in augmenting existing methods as it achieved a 0.84 R-squared score and 0.133 mean absolute difference.
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- R Karthik
- Centre for Cyber Physical Systems & School of Electronics Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai, India
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- Centre for Cyber Physical Systems & School of Electronics Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai, India
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- Cisco Systems India Pvt Ltd, Bangalore, India
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- System Sciences and Industrial Engineering, Binghamton University, NY, USA
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Hassan H, Ren Z, Zhou C, Khan MA, Pan Y, Zhao J, Huang B. Supervised and weakly supervised deep learning models for COVID-19 CT diagnosis: A systematic review. COMPUTER METHODS AND PROGRAMS IN BIOMEDICINE 2022; 218:106731. [PMID: 35286874 PMCID: PMC8897838 DOI: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2022.106731] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2021] [Revised: 01/28/2022] [Accepted: 03/03/2022] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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Artificial intelligence (AI) and computer vision (CV) methods become reliable to extract features from radiological images, aiding COVID-19 diagnosis ahead of the pathogenic tests and saving critical time for disease management and control. Thus, this review article focuses on cascading numerous deep learning-based COVID-19 computerized tomography (CT) imaging diagnosis research, providing a baseline for future research. Compared to previous review articles on the topic, this study pigeon-holes the collected literature very differently (i.e., its multi-level arrangement). For this purpose, 71 relevant studies were found using a variety of trustworthy databases and search engines, including Google Scholar, IEEE Xplore, Web of Science, PubMed, Science Direct, and Scopus. We classify the selected literature in multi-level machine learning groups, such as supervised and weakly supervised learning. Our review article reveals that weak supervision has been adopted extensively for COVID-19 CT diagnosis compared to supervised learning. Weakly supervised (conventional transfer learning) techniques can be utilized effectively for real-time clinical practices by reusing the sophisticated features rather than over-parameterizing the standard models. Few-shot and self-supervised learning are the recent trends to address data scarcity and model efficacy. The deep learning (artificial intelligence) based models are mainly utilized for disease management and control. Therefore, it is more appropriate for readers to comprehend the related perceptive of deep learning approaches for the in-progress COVID-19 CT diagnosis research.
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- Haseeb Hassan
- College of Big data and Internet, Shenzhen Technology University, Shenzhen, 518118, China; Guangdong Key Laboratory for Biomedical Measurements and Ultrasound Imaging, School of Biomedical Engineering, Shenzhen University Health Science Center, Shenzhen, China; College of Applied Sciences, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, 518060, China
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- College of Big data and Internet, Shenzhen Technology University, Shenzhen, 518118, China
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- College of Big data and Internet, Shenzhen Technology University, Shenzhen, 518118, China
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- Department of Computer Sciences, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan
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- Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
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- College of Big data and Internet, Shenzhen Technology University, Shenzhen, 518118, China.
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- College of Big data and Internet, Shenzhen Technology University, Shenzhen, 518118, China.
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Deep Learning-Based Automatic CT Quantification of Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pneumonia: An International Collaborative Study. J Comput Assist Tomogr 2022; 46:413-422. [PMID: 35405709 DOI: 10.1097/rct.0000000000001303] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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OBJECTIVE We aimed to develop and validate the automatic quantification of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pneumonia on computed tomography (CT) images. METHODS This retrospective study included 176 chest CT scans of 131 COVID-19 patients from 14 Korean and Chinese institutions from January 23 to March 15, 2020. Two experienced radiologists semiautomatically drew pneumonia masks on CT images to develop the 2D U-Net for segmenting pneumonia. External validation was performed using Japanese (n = 101), Italian (n = 99), Radiopaedia (n = 9), and Chinese data sets (n = 10). The primary measures for the system's performance were correlation coefficients for extent (%) and weight (g) of pneumonia in comparison with visual CT scores or human-derived segmentation. Multivariable logistic regression analyses were performed to evaluate the association of the extent and weight with symptoms in the Japanese data set and composite outcome (respiratory failure and death) in the Spanish data set (n = 115). RESULTS In the internal test data set, the intraclass correlation coefficients between U-Net outputs and references for the extent and weight were 0.990 and 0.993. In the Japanese data set, the Pearson correlation coefficients between U-Net outputs and visual CT scores were 0.908 and 0.899. In the other external data sets, intraclass correlation coefficients were between 0.949-0.965 (extent) and between 0.978-0.993 (weight). Extent and weight in the top quartile were independently associated with symptoms (odds ratio, 5.523 and 10.561; P = 0.041 and 0.016) and the composite outcome (odds ratio, 9.365 and 7.085; P = 0.021 and P = 0.035). CONCLUSIONS Automatically quantified CT extent and weight of COVID-19 pneumonia were well correlated with human-derived references and independently associated with symptoms and prognosis in multinational external data sets.
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Bhalla D, Ramachandran A, Rangarajan K, Dhanakshirur R, Banerjee S, Arora C. Basic Principles AI Simplified For A Medical Practitioner: Pearls And Pitfalls In Evaluating AI Algorithms. Curr Probl Diagn Radiol 2022; 52:47-55. [DOI: 10.1067/j.cpradiol.2022.04.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2022] [Revised: 03/14/2022] [Accepted: 04/18/2022] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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COVI3D: Automatic COVID-19 CT Image-Based Classification and Visualization Platform Utilizing Virtual and Augmented Reality Technologies. Diagnostics (Basel) 2022; 12:diagnostics12030649. [PMID: 35328202 PMCID: PMC8947514 DOI: 10.3390/diagnostics12030649] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2022] [Revised: 02/28/2022] [Accepted: 03/02/2022] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Recently many studies have shown the effectiveness of using augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) in biomedical image analysis. However, they are not automating the COVID level classification process. Additionally, even with the high potential of CT scan imagery to contribute to research and clinical use of COVID-19 (including two common tasks in lung image analysis: segmentation and classification of infection regions), publicly available data-sets are still a missing part in the system care for Algerian patients. This article proposes designing an automatic VR and AR platform for the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic data analysis, classification, and visualization to address the above-mentioned challenges including (1) utilizing a novel automatic CT image segmentation and localization system to deliver critical information about the shapes and volumes of infected lungs, (2) elaborating volume measurements and lung voxel-based classification procedure, and (3) developing an AR and VR user-friendly three-dimensional interface. It also centered on developing patient questionings and medical staff qualitative feedback, which led to advances in scalability and higher levels of engagement/evaluations. The extensive computer simulations on CT image classification show a better efficiency against the state-of-the-art methods using a COVID-19 dataset of 500 Algerian patients. The developed system has been used by medical professionals for better and faster diagnosis of the disease and providing an effective treatment plan more accurately by using real-time data and patient information.
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Gillman AG, Lunardo F, Prinable J, Belous G, Nicolson A, Min H, Terhorst A, Dowling JA. Automated COVID-19 diagnosis and prognosis with medical imaging and who is publishing: a systematic review. Phys Eng Sci Med 2022; 45:13-29. [PMID: 34919204 PMCID: PMC8678975 DOI: 10.1007/s13246-021-01093-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/08/2021] [Accepted: 12/13/2021] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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OBJECTIVES To conduct a systematic survey of published techniques for automated diagnosis and prognosis of COVID-19 diseases using medical imaging, assessing the validity of reported performance and investigating the proposed clinical use-case. To conduct a scoping review into the authors publishing such work. METHODS The Scopus database was queried and studies were screened for article type, and minimum source normalized impact per paper and citations, before manual relevance assessment and a bias assessment derived from a subset of the Checklist for Artificial Intelligence in Medical Imaging (CLAIM). The number of failures of the full CLAIM was adopted as a surrogate for risk-of-bias. Methodological and performance measurements were collected from each technique. Each study was assessed by one author. Comparisons were evaluated for significance with a two-sided independent t-test. FINDINGS Of 1002 studies identified, 390 remained after screening and 81 after relevance and bias exclusion. The ratio of exclusion for bias was 71%, indicative of a high level of bias in the field. The mean number of CLAIM failures per study was 8.3 ± 3.9 [1,17] (mean ± standard deviation [min,max]). 58% of methods performed diagnosis versus 31% prognosis. Of the diagnostic methods, 38% differentiated COVID-19 from healthy controls. For diagnostic techniques, area under the receiver operating curve (AUC) = 0.924 ± 0.074 [0.810,0.991] and accuracy = 91.7% ± 6.4 [79.0,99.0]. For prognostic techniques, AUC = 0.836 ± 0.126 [0.605,0.980] and accuracy = 78.4% ± 9.4 [62.5,98.0]. CLAIM failures did not correlate with performance, providing confidence that the highest results were not driven by biased papers. Deep learning techniques reported higher AUC (p < 0.05) and accuracy (p < 0.05), but no difference in CLAIM failures was identified. INTERPRETATION A majority of papers focus on the less clinically impactful diagnosis task, contrasted with prognosis, with a significant portion performing a clinically unnecessary task of differentiating COVID-19 from healthy. Authors should consider the clinical scenario in which their work would be deployed when developing techniques. Nevertheless, studies report superb performance in a potentially impactful application. Future work is warranted in translating techniques into clinical tools.
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- Ashley G Gillman
- Australian e-Health Research Centre, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Surgical Treatment and Rehabilitation Service, 296 Herston Road, Brisbane, QLD, 4029, Australia.
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- Australian e-Health Research Centre, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Surgical Treatment and Rehabilitation Service, 296 Herston Road, Brisbane, QLD, 4029, Australia
- College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University, Australian Tropical Science Innovation Precinct, Townsville, QLD, 4814, Australia
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- ACRF Image X Institute, University of Sydney, Level 2, Biomedical Building (C81), 1 Central Ave, Australian Technology Park, Eveleigh, Sydney, NSW, 2015, Australia
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- Australian e-Health Research Centre, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Surgical Treatment and Rehabilitation Service, 296 Herston Road, Brisbane, QLD, 4029, Australia
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- Australian e-Health Research Centre, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Surgical Treatment and Rehabilitation Service, 296 Herston Road, Brisbane, QLD, 4029, Australia
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- Australian e-Health Research Centre, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Surgical Treatment and Rehabilitation Service, 296 Herston Road, Brisbane, QLD, 4029, Australia
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- Data61, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, College Road, Sandy Bay, Hobart, TAS, 7005, Australia
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- Australian e-Health Research Centre, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Surgical Treatment and Rehabilitation Service, 296 Herston Road, Brisbane, QLD, 4029, Australia
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Ferreira RM, de Oliveira GS, da Rocha JR, Mc Ribeiro FD, Stern JJ, S Costa RD, Lemgruber RN, Ramalho JF, de Almeida AC, Sampaio PP, Filho JM, Lima RA. Biomarker evaluation for prognostic stratification of patients with COVID-19: the added value of quantitative chest CT. Biomark Med 2022; 16:291-301. [PMID: 35176874 PMCID: PMC8855956 DOI: 10.2217/bmm-2021-0536] [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] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Aim: Pulmonary disease burden and biomarkers are possible predictors of outcomes in patients with COVID-19 and provide complementary information. In this study, the prognostic value of adding quantitative chest computed tomography (CT) to a multiple biomarker approach was evaluated among 148 hospitalized patients with confirmed COVID-19. Materials & methods: Patients admitted between March and July 2020 who were submitted to chest CT and biomarker measurement (troponin I, D-dimer and C-reactive protein) were retrospectively analyzed. Biomarker and tomographic data were compared and associated with death and intensive care unit admission. Results: The number of elevated biomarkers was significantly associated with greater opacification percentages, lower lung volumes and higher death and intensive care unit admission rates. Total lung volume <3.0 l provided further stratification for mortality when combined with biomarker evaluation. Conclusion: Adding automated CT data to a multiple biomarker approach may provide a simple strategy for enhancing risk stratification of patients with COVID-19.
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- Roberto M Ferreira
- Samaritano Hospital, Rua Bambina 98, Botafogo, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, 22251-050, Brazil.,Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Edson Saad Heart Institute, Rua Rodolpho Paulo Rocco 255, Ilha do Fundão, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, 21941-913, Brazil
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- Samaritano Hospital, Rua Bambina 98, Botafogo, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, 22251-050, Brazil.,Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Edson Saad Heart Institute, Rua Rodolpho Paulo Rocco 255, Ilha do Fundão, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, 21941-913, Brazil
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- Samaritano Hospital, Rua Bambina 98, Botafogo, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, 22251-050, Brazil.,Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Edson Saad Heart Institute, Rua Rodolpho Paulo Rocco 255, Ilha do Fundão, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, 21941-913, Brazil
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- Felippe Mattoso Clinic, Fleury Group, Rua Bambina 98, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, 22251-060, Brazil
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- Felippe Mattoso Clinic, Fleury Group, Rua Bambina 98, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, 22251-060, Brazil
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- Felippe Mattoso Clinic, Fleury Group, Rua Bambina 98, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, 22251-060, Brazil
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- Samaritano Hospital, Rua Bambina 98, Botafogo, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, 22251-050, Brazil
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- Samaritano Hospital, Rua Bambina 98, Botafogo, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, 22251-050, Brazil
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- Samaritano Hospital, Rua Bambina 98, Botafogo, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, 22251-050, Brazil.,Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Edson Saad Heart Institute, Rua Rodolpho Paulo Rocco 255, Ilha do Fundão, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, 21941-913, Brazil
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- Samaritano Hospital, Rua Bambina 98, Botafogo, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, 22251-050, Brazil
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- Samaritano Hospital, Rua Bambina 98, Botafogo, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, 22251-050, Brazil.,Department of General Surgery, Federal University of The State of Rio de Janeiro, Rua Silva Ramos 32, Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, 20270-330, Brazil
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Hassan H, Ren Z, Zhao H, Huang S, Li D, Xiang S, Kang Y, Chen S, Huang B. Review and classification of AI-enabled COVID-19 CT imaging models based on computer vision tasks. Comput Biol Med 2022; 141:105123. [PMID: 34953356 PMCID: PMC8684223 DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2021.105123] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2021] [Revised: 12/03/2021] [Accepted: 12/03/2021] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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This article presents a systematic overview of artificial intelligence (AI) and computer vision strategies for diagnosing the coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) using computerized tomography (CT) medical images. We analyzed the previous review works and found that all of them ignored classifying and categorizing COVID-19 literature based on computer vision tasks, such as classification, segmentation, and detection. Most of the COVID-19 CT diagnosis methods comprehensively use segmentation and classification tasks. Moreover, most of the review articles are diverse and cover CT as well as X-ray images. Therefore, we focused on the COVID-19 diagnostic methods based on CT images. Well-known search engines and databases such as Google, Google Scholar, Kaggle, Baidu, IEEE Xplore, Web of Science, PubMed, ScienceDirect, and Scopus were utilized to collect relevant studies. After deep analysis, we collected 114 studies and reported highly enriched information for each selected research. According to our analysis, AI and computer vision have substantial potential for rapid COVID-19 diagnosis as they could significantly assist in automating the diagnosis process. Accurate and efficient models will have real-time clinical implications, though further research is still required. Categorization of literature based on computer vision tasks could be helpful for future research; therefore, this review article will provide a good foundation for conducting such research.
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- Haseeb Hassan
- College of Big Data and Internet, Shenzhen Technology University, Shenzhen, China; Guangdong Key Laboratory for Biomedical Measurements and Ultrasound Imaging, School of Biomedical Engineering, Shenzhen University Health Science Center, Shenzhen, China
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- College of Big Data and Internet, Shenzhen Technology University, Shenzhen, China
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- College of Big Data and Internet, Shenzhen Technology University, Shenzhen, China
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- College of Big Data and Internet, Shenzhen Technology University, Shenzhen, China
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- College of Big Data and Internet, Shenzhen Technology University, Shenzhen, China
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- College of Big Data and Internet, Shenzhen Technology University, Shenzhen, China
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- Guangdong Key Laboratory for Biomedical Measurements and Ultrasound Imaging, School of Biomedical Engineering, Shenzhen University Health Science Center, Shenzhen, China; Medical Device Innovation Research Center, Shenzhen Technology University, Shenzhen, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Malignant Tumor Epigenetics and Gene Regulation, Guangdong-Hong Kong Joint Laboratory for RNA Medicine, Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China; Medical Research Center, Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China
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- College of Big Data and Internet, Shenzhen Technology University, Shenzhen, China.
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Romeih M, Mahrous MR, El Kassas M. Incidental radiological findings suggestive of COVID-19 in asymptomatic patients. World J Radiol 2022; 14:1-12. [PMID: 35126873 PMCID: PMC8788167 DOI: 10.4329/wjr.v14.i1.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2021] [Revised: 09/09/2021] [Accepted: 12/23/2021] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Despite routine screening of patients for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) symptoms and signs at hospital entrances, patients may slip between the cracks and be incidentally discovered to have lung findings that could indicate COVID-19 infection on imaging obtained for other reasons. Multiple case reports and case series have been published to identify the pattern of this highly infectious disease. This article addresses the radiographic findings in different imaging modalities that may be incidentally seen in asymptomatic patients who carry COVID-19. In general, findings of COVID-19 infection may appear in computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging, positron emission tomography-CT, ultrasound, or plain X-rays that show lung or only apical or basal cuts. The identification of these characteristics by radiologists and clinicians is crucial because this would help in the early recognition of cases so that a rapid treatment protocol can be established, the immediate isolation to reduce community transmission, and the organization of close monitoring. Thus, it is important to both the patient and the physician that these findings are highlighted and reported.
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- Marwa Romeih
- Department of Radiodiagnosis, Faculty of Medicine, Helwan University, Cairo 11795, Egypt
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- Department of Radiodiagnosis, National Heart institute, Cairo 11795, Egypt
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- Department of Endemic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Helwan University, Cairo 11795, Egypt
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Ahmad J, Saudagar AKJ, Malik KM, Ahmad W, Khan MB, Hasanat MHA, AlTameem A, AlKhathami M, Sajjad M. Disease Progression Detection via Deep Sequence Learning of Successive Radiographic Scans. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH 2022; 19:480. [PMID: 35010740 PMCID: PMC8744904 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph19010480] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2021] [Revised: 12/23/2021] [Accepted: 12/27/2021] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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The highly rapid spread of the current pandemic has quickly overwhelmed hospitals all over the world and motivated extensive research to address a wide range of emerging problems. The unforeseen influx of COVID-19 patients to hospitals has made it inevitable to deploy a rapid and accurate triage system, monitor progression, and predict patients at higher risk of deterioration in order to make informed decisions regarding hospital resource management. Disease detection in radiographic scans, severity estimation, and progression and prognosis prediction have been extensively studied with the help of end-to-end methods based on deep learning. The majority of recent works have utilized a single scan to determine severity or predict progression of the disease. In this paper, we present a method based on deep sequence learning to predict improvement or deterioration in successive chest X-ray scans and build a mathematical model to determine individual patient disease progression profile using successive scans. A deep convolutional neural network pretrained on a diverse lung disease dataset was used as a feature extractor to generate the sequences. We devised three strategies for sequence modeling in order to obtain both fine-grained and coarse-grained features and construct sequences of different lengths. We also devised a strategy to quantify positive or negative change in successive scans, which was then combined with age-related risk factors to construct disease progression profile for COVID-19 patients. The age-related risk factors allowed us to model rapid deterioration and slower recovery in older patients. Experiments conducted on two large datasets showed that the proposed method could accurately predict disease progression. With the best feature extractor, the proposed method was able to achieve AUC of 0.98 with the features obtained from radiographs. Furthermore, the proposed patient profiling method accurately estimated the health profile of patients.
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- Jamil Ahmad
- Department of Computer Science, Islamia College Peshawar, Chartered University, Peshawar 25000, Pakistan; (J.A.); (M.S.)
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- Information Systems Department, Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University (IMSIU), Riyadh 11432, Saudi Arabia; (M.B.K.); (M.H.A.H.); (A.A.); (M.A.)
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- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Oakland University, Rochester, MI 48309, USA;
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- Lady Reading Hospital-Medical Teaching Institute, Peshawar 25000, Pakistan;
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- Information Systems Department, Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University (IMSIU), Riyadh 11432, Saudi Arabia; (M.B.K.); (M.H.A.H.); (A.A.); (M.A.)
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- Information Systems Department, Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University (IMSIU), Riyadh 11432, Saudi Arabia; (M.B.K.); (M.H.A.H.); (A.A.); (M.A.)
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- Information Systems Department, Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University (IMSIU), Riyadh 11432, Saudi Arabia; (M.B.K.); (M.H.A.H.); (A.A.); (M.A.)
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- Information Systems Department, Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University (IMSIU), Riyadh 11432, Saudi Arabia; (M.B.K.); (M.H.A.H.); (A.A.); (M.A.)
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- Department of Computer Science, Islamia College Peshawar, Chartered University, Peshawar 25000, Pakistan; (J.A.); (M.S.)
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Lung vessel volume evaluated with CALIPER software is an independent predictor of mortality in COVID-19 patients: a multicentric retrospective analysis. Eur Radiol 2022; 32:4314-4323. [PMID: 35028751 PMCID: PMC8757923 DOI: 10.1007/s00330-021-08485-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/11/2021] [Revised: 11/03/2021] [Accepted: 11/28/2021] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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INTRODUCTION Computer-Aided Lung Informatics for Pathology Evaluation and Ratings (CALIPER) software has already been widely used in the evaluation of interstitial lung diseases (ILD) but has not yet been tested in patients affected by COVID-19. Our aim was to use it to describe the relationship between Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) outcome and the CALIPER-detected pulmonary vascular-related structures (VRS). MATERIALS AND METHODS We performed a multicentric retrospective study enrolling 570 COVID-19 patients who performed a chest CT in emergency settings in two different institutions. Fifty-three age- and sex-matched healthy controls were also identified. Chest CTs were analyzed with CALIPER identifying the percentage of VRS over the total lung parenchyma. Patients were followed for up to 72 days recording mortality and required intensity of care. RESULTS There was a statistically significant difference in VRS between COVID-19-positive patients and controls (median (iqr) 4.05 (3.74) and 1.57 (0.40) respectively, p = 0.0001). VRS showed an increasing trend with the severity of care, p < 0.0001. The univariate Cox regression model showed that VRS increase is a risk factor for mortality (HR 1.17, p < 0.0001). The multivariate analysis demonstrated that VRS is an independent explanatory factor of mortality along with age (HR 1.13, p < 0.0001). CONCLUSION Our study suggests that VRS increases with the required intensity of care, and it is an independent explanatory factor for mortality. KEY POINTS • The percentage of vascular-related structure volume (VRS) in the lung is significatively increased in COVID-19 patients. • VRS showed an increasing trend with the required intensity of care, test for trend p< 0.0001. • Univariate and multivariate Cox models showed that VRS is a significant and independent explanatory factor of mortality.
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COVID-19-Pneumonie: Softwaregestützte Beurteilung von CT-Aufnahmen. ROFO-FORTSCHR RONTG 2021. [DOI: 10.1055/a-1395-2123] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Palumbo P, Palumbo MM, Bruno F, Picchi G, Iacopino A, Acanfora C, Sgalambro F, Arrigoni F, Ciccullo A, Cosimini B, Splendiani A, Barile A, Masedu F, Grimaldi A, Di Cesare E, Masciocchi C. Automated Quantitative Lung CT Improves Prognostication in Non-ICU COVID-19 Patients beyond Conventional Biomarkers of Disease. Diagnostics (Basel) 2021; 11:2125. [PMID: 34829472 PMCID: PMC8624922 DOI: 10.3390/diagnostics11112125] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/14/2021] [Revised: 11/08/2021] [Accepted: 11/12/2021] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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(1) Background: COVID-19 continues to represent a worrying pandemic. Despite the high percentage of non-severe illness, a wide clinical variability is often reported in real-world practice. Accurate predictors of disease aggressiveness, however, are still lacking. The purpose of our study was to evaluate the impact of quantitative analysis of lung computed tomography (CT) on non-intensive care unit (ICU) COVID-19 patients' prognostication; (2) Methods: Our historical prospective study included fifty-five COVID-19 patients consecutively submitted to unenhanced lung CT. Primary outcomes were recorded during hospitalization, including composite ICU admission for the need of mechanical ventilation and/or death occurrence. CT examinations were retrospectively evaluated to automatically calculate differently aerated lung tissues (i.e., overinflated, well-aerated, poorly aerated, and non-aerated tissue). Scores based on the percentage of lung weight and volume were also calculated; (3) Results: Patients who reported disease progression showed lower total lung volume. Inflammatory indices correlated with indices of respiratory failure and high-density areas. Moreover, non-aerated and poorly aerated lung tissue resulted significantly higher in patients with disease progression. Notably, non-aerated lung tissue was independently associated with disease progression (HR: 1.02; p-value: 0.046). When different predictive models including clinical, laboratoristic, and CT findings were analyzed, the best predictive validity was reached by the model that included non-aerated tissue (C-index: 0.97; p-value: 0.0001); (4) Conclusions: Quantitative lung CT offers wide advantages in COVID-19 disease stratification. Non-aerated lung tissue is more likely to occur with severe inflammation status, turning out to be a strong predictor for disease aggressiveness; therefore, it should be included in the predictive model of COVID-19 patients.
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- Pierpaolo Palumbo
- Department of Diagnostic Imaging, Area of Cardiovascular and Interventional Imaging, Abruzzo Health Unit 1, Via Saragat, Località Campo di Pile, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy;
- Italian Society of Medical and Interventional Radiology (SIRM), SIRM Foundation, 20122 Milan, Italy;
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Catholic University of The Sacred Heart, 00168 Rome, Italy;
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- Italian Society of Medical and Interventional Radiology (SIRM), SIRM Foundation, 20122 Milan, Italy;
- Department of Applied Clinical Sciences and Biotechnology, University of L’Aquila, Via Vetoio 1, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy; (A.I.); (C.A.); (F.S.); (A.S.); (F.M.); (C.M.)
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- Infectious Disease Unit, San Salvatore Hospital, Via Lorenzo Natali, 1-Località Coppito, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy; (G.P.); (A.C.); (A.G.)
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- Department of Applied Clinical Sciences and Biotechnology, University of L’Aquila, Via Vetoio 1, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy; (A.I.); (C.A.); (F.S.); (A.S.); (F.M.); (C.M.)
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- Department of Applied Clinical Sciences and Biotechnology, University of L’Aquila, Via Vetoio 1, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy; (A.I.); (C.A.); (F.S.); (A.S.); (F.M.); (C.M.)
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- Department of Applied Clinical Sciences and Biotechnology, University of L’Aquila, Via Vetoio 1, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy; (A.I.); (C.A.); (F.S.); (A.S.); (F.M.); (C.M.)
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- Department of Diagnostic Imaging, Area of Cardiovascular and Interventional Imaging, Abruzzo Health Unit 1, Via Saragat, Località Campo di Pile, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy;
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- Infectious Disease Unit, San Salvatore Hospital, Via Lorenzo Natali, 1-Località Coppito, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy; (G.P.); (A.C.); (A.G.)
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- Department of Life, Health and Environmental Sciences, University of L’Aquila, Piazzale Salvatore Tommasi 1, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy; (B.C.); (E.D.C.)
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- Department of Applied Clinical Sciences and Biotechnology, University of L’Aquila, Via Vetoio 1, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy; (A.I.); (C.A.); (F.S.); (A.S.); (F.M.); (C.M.)
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- Department of Applied Clinical Sciences and Biotechnology, University of L’Aquila, Via Vetoio 1, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy; (A.I.); (C.A.); (F.S.); (A.S.); (F.M.); (C.M.)
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- Department of Applied Clinical Sciences and Biotechnology, University of L’Aquila, Via Vetoio 1, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy; (A.I.); (C.A.); (F.S.); (A.S.); (F.M.); (C.M.)
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- Infectious Disease Unit, San Salvatore Hospital, Via Lorenzo Natali, 1-Località Coppito, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy; (G.P.); (A.C.); (A.G.)
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- Department of Life, Health and Environmental Sciences, University of L’Aquila, Piazzale Salvatore Tommasi 1, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy; (B.C.); (E.D.C.)
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- Department of Applied Clinical Sciences and Biotechnology, University of L’Aquila, Via Vetoio 1, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy; (A.I.); (C.A.); (F.S.); (A.S.); (F.M.); (C.M.)
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Huang X, Shi K, Zhou J, Liang Y, Liu Y, Zhang J, Guo Y, Jin C. Development of a Machine Learning-Assisted Model for the Early Detection of Severe COVID-19 Cases Combining Blood Test and Quantitative Computed Tomography Parameters. JOURNAL OF MEDICAL IMAGING AND HEALTH INFORMATICS 2021. [DOI: 10.1166/jmihi.2021.3866] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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<sec> <title>Purpose:</title> This study aimed to identify severe Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases combining blood test results and imaging parameters based on a machine learning classifier at the initial admission. </sec> <sec> <title>Materials
and methods:</title> Ninety-five non-severe and 22 severe laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 cases treated between January 23, 2020 and March 25, 2020 were examined in this retrospective trial. Blood test results and chest computed tomography (CT) images were obtained at the initial
admission. The lesions on CT images were segmented using an artificial intelligent (AI) tool. Then, quantitative CT (QCT) parameters, including the volume, percentage, ground glass opacity (GGO) percentage and heterogeneity of the lesions were calculated. Correlations of blood test results
and QCT parameters were analyzed by the Pearson test first. Then, discriminative features for detecting severe cases were selected by both the independent samples t test and least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO) regression. Next, support vector machine (SVM),
Gaussian naïve Bayes (GNB), Knearest neighbor (KNN), decision tree (DT), random forest (RF) and multi-layer perceptron-neural net (MLP-NN) algorithms were used as classifiers, and their accuracies were assessed by 10-fold-cross-validation. </sec> <sec> <title>Results:</title>
Blood test indexes and CT parameters were moderately to medially correlated. Of all selected features, lesion percentage contributed mostly to the classification of the two groups, followed by lesion volume, patient age, lymphocyte count, neutrophil count, GGO percentage and tumor heterogeneity.
RF-assisted identification had the highest accuracy of 91.38%, followed by GNB (87.83%), KNN (87.93%), SVM (86.21%), MLP-NN (85.34%) and DT (84.48%). </sec> <sec> <title>Conclusions:</title> The RF-assisted model combining blood test and QCT parameters is
helpful in the identification of severe COVID-19 cases. </sec>
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- Xiaoqi Huang
- Department of Radiology, The Affiliated Hospital of Yan’an University, Yan’an, 716000, China
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- Department of Radiology, Ankang People’s Hospital, Ankang, 725000, China
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- Department of Radiology, Xi’an Chest Hospital, Xi’an, 710000, China
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- Department of CT&MR Imaging Diagnostics, Weinan Central Hospital, Weinan, 714000, China
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- Department of Radiology, Hanzhong Central Hospital, Hanzhong, 723000, China
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- Department of Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, 710000, Shaanxi, China
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- Department of Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, 710000, Shaanxi, China
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- Department of Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, 710000, Shaanxi, China
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Lee S, Summers RM. Clinical Artificial Intelligence Applications in Radiology: Chest and Abdomen. Radiol Clin North Am 2021; 59:987-1002. [PMID: 34689882 DOI: 10.1016/j.rcl.2021.07.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Organ segmentation, chest radiograph classification, and lung and liver nodule detections are some of the popular artificial intelligence (AI) tasks in chest and abdominal radiology due to the wide availability of public datasets. AI algorithms have achieved performance comparable to humans in less time for several organ segmentation tasks, and some lesion detection and classification tasks. This article introduces the current published articles of AI applied to chest and abdominal radiology, including organ segmentation, lesion detection, classification, and predicting prognosis.
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- Sungwon Lee
- Imaging Biomarkers and Computer-Aided Diagnosis Laboratory, Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences, National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, Building 10, Room 1C224D, 10 Center Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892-1182, USA
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- Imaging Biomarkers and Computer-Aided Diagnosis Laboratory, Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences, National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, Building 10, Room 1C224D, 10 Center Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892-1182, USA.
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Kim EY, Chung MJ. Application of artificial intelligence in chest imaging for COVID-19. JOURNAL OF THE KOREAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION 2021. [DOI: 10.5124/jkma.2021.64.10.664] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Background: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has threatened public health. Medical imaging tools such as chest X-ray and computed tomography (CT) play an essential role in the global fight against COVID-19. Recently emerging artificial intelligence (AI) technologies further strengthen the power of imaging tools and help medical professionals. We reviewed the current progress in the development of AI technologies for the diagnostic imaging of COVID-19.Current Concepts: The rapid development of AI, including deep learning, has led to the development of technologies that may assist in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases, prediction of disease risk and prognosis, health index monitoring, and drug development. In the era of the COVID-19 pandemic, AI can improve work efficiency through accurate delineation of infections on chest X-ray and CT images, differentiation of COVID-19 from other diseases, and facilitation of subsequent disease quantification. Moreover, computer-aided platforms help radiologists make clinical decisions for disease diagnosis, tracking, and prognosis.Discussion and Conclusion: We reviewed the current progress in AI technology for chest imaging for COVID-19. However, it is necessary to combine clinical experts’ observations, medical image data, and clinical and laboratory findings for reliable and efficient diagnosis and management of COVID-19. Future AI research should focus on multimodality-based models and how to select the best model architecture for COVID-19 diagnosis and management.
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Ding W, Nayak J, Swapnarekha H, Abraham A, Naik B, Pelusi D. Fusion of intelligent learning for COVID-19: A state-of-the-art review and analysis on real medical data. Neurocomputing 2021; 457:40-66. [PMID: 34149184 PMCID: PMC8206574 DOI: 10.1016/j.neucom.2021.06.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/24/2021] [Revised: 06/02/2021] [Accepted: 06/11/2021] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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The unprecedented surge of a novel coronavirus in the month of December 2019, named as COVID-19 by the World Health organization has caused a serious impact on the health and socioeconomic activities of the public all over the world. Since its origin, the number of infected and deceased cases has been growing exponentially in almost all the affected countries of the world. The rapid spread of the novel coronavirus across the world results in the scarcity of medical resources and overburdened hospitals. As a result, the researchers and technocrats are continuously working across the world for the inculcation of efficient strategies which may assist the government and healthcare system in controlling and managing the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, this study provides an extensive review of the ongoing strategies such as diagnosis, prediction, drug and vaccine development and preventive measures used in combating the COVID-19 along with technologies used and limitations. Moreover, this review also provides a comparative analysis of the distinct type of data, emerging technologies, approaches used in diagnosis and prediction of COVID-19, statistics of contact tracing apps, vaccine production platforms used in the COVID-19 pandemic. Finally, the study highlights some challenges and pitfalls observed in the systematic review which may assist the researchers to develop more efficient strategies used in controlling and managing the spread of COVID-19.
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- Weiping Ding
- School of Information Science and Technology, Nantong University, China
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- Aditya Institute of Technology and Management (AITAM), India
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- Aditya Institute of Technology and Management (AITAM), India
- Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology, India
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Radiology Implementation Considerations for Artificial Intelligence (AI) Applied to COVID-19, From the AJR Special Series on AI Applications. AJR Am J Roentgenol 2021; 219:15-23. [PMID: 34612681 DOI: 10.2214/ajr.21.26717] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Hundreds of imaging-based artificial intelligence (AI) models have been developed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. AI systems that incorporate imaging have shown promise in primary detection, severity grading, and prognostication of outcomes in COVID-19, and have enabled integration of imaging with a broad range of additional clinical and epidemiologic data. However, systematic reviews of AI models applied to COVID-19 medical imaging have highlighted problems in the field, including methodologic issues and problems in real-world deployment. Clinical use of such models should be informed by both the promise and potential pitfalls of implementation. How does a practicing radiologist make sense of this complex topic, and what factors should be considered in the implementation of AI tools for imaging of COVID-19? This critical review aims to help the radiologist understand the nuances that impact the clinical deployment of AI for imaging of COVID-19. We review imaging use cases for AI models in COVID-19 (e.g., diagnosis, severity assessment, and prognostication) and explore considerations for AI model development and testing, deployment infrastructure, clinical user interfaces, quality control, and institutional review board and regulatory approvals, with a practical focus on what a radiologist should consider when implementing an AI tool for COVID-19.
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A L A, S AH, S S VC. COVID-19 diagnosis and severity detection from CT-images using transfer learning and back propagation neural network. J Infect Public Health 2021; 14:1435-1445. [PMID: 34362695 PMCID: PMC8319091 DOI: 10.1016/j.jiph.2021.07.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2021] [Revised: 07/24/2021] [Accepted: 07/24/2021] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND COVID-19 diagnosis in symptomatic patients is an important factor for arranging the necessary lifesaving facilities like ICU care and ventilator support. For this purpose, we designed a computer-aided diagnosis and severity detection method by using transfer learning and a back propagation neural network. METHOD To increase the learning capability, we used data augmentation. Most of the previously done works in this area concentrate on private datasets, but we used two publicly available datasets. The first section diagnose COVID-19 from the input CT image using the transfer learning of the pre-trained network ResNet-50. We used ResNet-50 and DenseNet-201 pre-trained networks for feature extraction and trained a back propagation neural network to classify it into High, Medium, and Low severity. RESULTS The proposed method for COVID-19 diagnosis gave an accuracy of 98.5% compared with the state-of-the-art methods. The experimental evaluation shows that combining the ResNet-50 and DenseNet-201 features gave more accurate results with the test data. The proposed system for COVID-19 severity detection gave better average classification accuracy of 97.84% compared with the state-of-the-art methods. This enables medical practitioners to identify the resources and treatment plans correctly. CONCLUSIONS This work is useful in the medical field as a first-line severity risk detection that is helpful for medical personnel to plan patient care and assess the need for ICU facilities and ventilator support. A computer-aided system that is helpful to make a care plan for the huge amount of patient inflow each day is sure to be an asset in these turbulent times.
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- Aswathy A L
- Department of Computer Science, University of Kerala, Trivandum, India.
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- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Muthoot Institute of Technology and Science, Kochi, India.
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- Department of Computer Science, University of Kerala, Trivandum, India.
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Murugan R, Goel T, Mirjalili S, Chakrabartty DK. WOANet: Whale optimized deep neural network for the classification of COVID-19 from radiography images. Biocybern Biomed Eng 2021; 41:1702-1718. [PMID: 34720309 PMCID: PMC8536521 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbe.2021.10.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/14/2021] [Revised: 10/02/2021] [Accepted: 10/08/2021] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Coronavirus Diseases (COVID-19) is a new disease that will be declared a global pandemic in 2020. It is characterized by a constellation of traits like fever, dry cough, dyspnea, fatigue, chest pain, etc. Clinical findings have shown that the human chest Computed Tomography(CT) images can diagnose lung infection in most COVID-19 patients. Visual changes in CT scan due to COVID-19 is subjective and evaluated by radiologists for diagnosis purpose. Deep Learning (DL) can provide an automatic diagnosis tool to relieve radiologists' burden for quantitative analysis of CT scan images in patients. However, DL techniques face different training problems like mode collapse and instability. Deciding on training hyper-parameters to adjust the weight and biases of DL by a given CT image dataset is crucial for achieving the best accuracy. This paper combines the backpropagation algorithm and Whale Optimization Algorithm (WOA) to optimize such DL networks. Experimental results for the diagnosis of COVID-19 patients from a comprehensive COVID-CT scan dataset show the best performance compared to other recent methods. The proposed network architecture results were validated with the existing pre-trained network to prove the efficiency of the network.
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- R Murugan
- Bio-Medical Imaging Laboratory(BIOMIL), Department of Electronics and communication Engineering, National Institute Of Technology Silchar, Assam 788010, India
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- Bio-Medical Imaging Laboratory(BIOMIL), Department of Electronics and communication Engineering, National Institute Of Technology Silchar, Assam 788010, India
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- Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research and Optimisation, Torrens University Australia, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane, QLD 4006, Australia
- Yonsei Frontier Lab, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea
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Casartelli C, Perrone F, Balbi M, Alfieri V, Milanese G, Buti S, Silva M, Sverzellati N, Bersanelli M. Review on radiological evolution of COVID-19 pneumonia using computed tomography. World J Radiol 2021; 13:294-306. [PMID: 34630915 PMCID: PMC8473435 DOI: 10.4329/wjr.v13.i9.294] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/26/2021] [Revised: 07/28/2021] [Accepted: 08/13/2021] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Pneumonia is the main manifestation of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infection. Chest computed tomography is recommended for the initial evaluation of the disease; this technique can also be helpful to monitor the disease progression and evaluate the therapeutic efficacy.
AIM To review the currently available literature regarding the radiological follow-up of COVID-19-related lung alterations using the computed tomography scan, to describe the evidence about the dynamic evolution of COVID-19 pneumonia and verify the potential usefulness of the radiological follow-up.
METHODS We used pertinent keywords on PubMed to select relevant studies; the articles we considered were published until October 30, 2020. Through this selection, 69 studies were identified, and 16 were finally included in the review.
RESULTS Summarizing the included works’ findings, we identified well-defined stages in the short follow-up time frame. A radiographic deterioration reaching a peak roughly within the first 2 wk; after the peak, an absorption process and repairing signs are observed. At later radiological follow-up, with the limitation of little evidence available, the lesions usually did not recover completely.
CONCLUSION Following computed tomography scan evolution over time could help physicians better understand the clinical impact of COVID-19 pneumonia and manage the possible sequelae; a longer follow-up is advisable to verify the complete resolution or the presence of long-term damage.
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- Chiara Casartelli
- Medical Oncology Unit, University Hospital of Parma, Parma 43126, Italy
- Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Parma, Parma 43126, Italy
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- Medical Oncology Unit, University Hospital of Parma, Parma 43126, Italy
- Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Parma, Parma 43126, Italy
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- Division of Radiology, University of Parma, Parma 43126, Italy
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- Department of Medicine and Surgery, Respiratory Disease and Lung Function Unit, University of Parma, Parma 43126, Italy
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- Medical Oncology Unit, University Hospital of Parma, Parma 43126, Italy
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- Division of Radiology, University of Parma, Parma 43126, Italy
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- Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Parma, Parma 43126, Italy
- Division of Radiology, University of Parma, Parma 43126, Italy
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- Medical Oncology Unit, University Hospital of Parma, Parma 43126, Italy
- Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Parma, Parma 43126, Italy
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Xie X, Zhong Z, Zhao W, Wu S, Liu J. The Differences and Changes of Semi-Quantitative and Quantitative CT Features of Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pneumonia in Patients With or Without Smoking History. Front Med (Lausanne) 2021; 8:663514. [PMID: 34568353 PMCID: PMC8455871 DOI: 10.3389/fmed.2021.663514] [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: 02/03/2021] [Accepted: 06/30/2021] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Objective: To assess CT features of COVID-19 patients with different smoking status using quantitative and semi-quantitative technologies and to investigate changes of CT features in different disease states between the two groups. Methods: 30 COVID-19 patients with current smoking status (29 men, 1 woman) admitted in our database were enrolled as smoking group and 56 COVID-19 patients without smoking history (24 men, 32 women) admitted during the same period were enrolled as a control group. Twenty-seven smoking cases and 55 control cases reached recovery standard and were discharged. Initial and follow-up CT during hospitalization and follow-up CT after discharge were acquired. Thirty quantitative features, including the ratio of infection volume and visual-assessed interstitial changes score including total score, score of ground glass opacity, consolidation, septal thickening, reticulation and honeycombing sign, were analyzed. Results: Initial CT images of the smoking group showed higher scores of septal thickening [4.5 (0–5) vs. 0 (0–4), p = 0.001] and reticulation [0 (0–5.25) vs 0 (0–0), p = 0.001] as well as higher total score [7 (5–12.25) vs. 6 (5–7), p = 0.008] with statistical significance than in the control group. The score of reticulation was higher in the smoking group than in the control group when discharged [0.89 (0–0) vs. 0.09 (0–0), p = 0.02]. The score of septal thickening tended to be higher in the smoking group than the control group [4 (0–4) vs. 0 (0–4), p = 0.007] after being discharged. Quantitative CT features including infection ratio of whole lung and left lung as well as infection ratio within HU (−750, −300) and within HU (−300, 49) were higher in the control group of initial CT with statistical differences. The infection ratio of whole lung and left lung, infection ratio within HU (−750), and within HU (−750, −300) were higher in the control group with statistical differences when discharged. This trend turned adverse after discharge and the values of quantitative features were generally higher in the smoking group than in the control group without statistical differences. Conclusions: Patients with a history of smoking presented more severe interstitial manifestations and more residual lesion after being discharged. More support should be given for COVID-19 patients with a smoking history during hospitalization and after discharge.
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- Xingzhi Xie
- Department of Radiology, Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China
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- Department of Radiology, First Hospital of Changsha, Changsha, China.,Changsha Public Health Treatment Center, Changsha, China
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- Department of Radiology, Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China
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- Department of Respiratory Medicine, Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China
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- Department of Radiology, Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China.,Department of Radiology Quality Control Center, Changsha, China
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Rehouma R, Buchert M, Chen YP. Machine learning for medical imaging-based COVID-19 detection and diagnosis. INT J INTELL SYST 2021; 36:5085-5115. [PMID: 38607786 PMCID: PMC8242401 DOI: 10.1002/int.22504] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/18/2021] [Revised: 04/15/2021] [Accepted: 05/11/2021] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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The novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is considered to be a significant health challenge worldwide because of its rapid human-to-human transmission, leading to a rise in the number of infected people and deaths. The detection of COVID-19 at the earliest stage is therefore of paramount importance for controlling the pandemic spread and reducing the mortality rate. The real-time reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction, the primary method of diagnosis for coronavirus infection, has a relatively high false negative rate while detecting early stage disease. Meanwhile, the manifestations of COVID-19, as seen through medical imaging methods such as computed tomography (CT), radiograph (X-ray), and ultrasound imaging, show individual characteristics that differ from those of healthy cases or other types of pneumonia. Machine learning (ML) applications for COVID-19 diagnosis, detection, and the assessment of disease severity based on medical imaging have gained considerable attention. Herein, we review the recent progress of ML in COVID-19 detection with a particular focus on ML models using CT and X-ray images published in high-ranking journals, including a discussion of the predominant features of medical imaging in patients with COVID-19. Deep Learning algorithms, particularly convolutional neural networks, have been utilized widely for image segmentation and classification to identify patients with COVID-19 and many ML modules have achieved remarkable predictive results using datasets with limited sample sizes.
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- Rokaya Rehouma
- School of Cancer MedicineLa Trobe UniversityMelbourneVictoriaAustralia
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- School of Cancer MedicineLa Trobe UniversityMelbourneVictoriaAustralia
- Tumour Microenvironment and Cancer Signaling GroupOlivia Newton‐John Cancer Research InstituteMelbourneVictoriaAustralia
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- Department of Computer Science and Information TechnologyLa Trobe UniversityMelbourneVictoriaAustralia
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Fu R, Leader JK, Pradeep T, Shi J, Meng X, Zhang Y, Pu J. Automated delineation of orbital abscess depicted on CT scan using deep learning. Med Phys 2021; 48:3721-3729. [PMID: 33906264 PMCID: PMC8600964 DOI: 10.1002/mp.14907] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2020] [Revised: 04/06/2021] [Accepted: 04/19/2021] [Indexed: 11/07/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVES To develop and validate a deep learning algorithm to automatically detect and segment an orbital abscess depicted on computed tomography (CT). METHODS We retrospectively collected orbital CT scans acquired on 67 pediatric subjects with a confirmed orbital abscess in the setting of infectious orbital cellulitis. A context-aware convolutional neural network (CA-CNN) was developed and trained to automatically segment orbital abscess. To reduce the requirement for a large dataset, transfer learning was used by leveraging a pre-trained model for CT-based lung segmentation. An ophthalmologist manually delineated orbital abscesses depicted on the CT images. The classical U-Net and the CA-CNN models with and without transfer learning were trained and tested on the collected dataset using the 10-fold cross-validation method. Dice coefficient, Jaccard index, and Hausdorff distance were used as performance metrics to assess the agreement between the computerized and manual segmentations. RESULTS The context-aware U-Net with transfer learning achieved an average Dice coefficient and Jaccard index of 0.78 ± 0.12 and 0.65 ± 0.13, which were consistently higher than the classical U-Net or the context-aware U-Net without transfer learning (P < 0.01). The average differences of the abscess between the computerized results and the experts in terms of volume and Hausdorff distance were 0.10 ± 0.11 mL and 1.94 ± 1.21 mm, respectively. The context-aware U-Net detected all orbital abscess without false positives. CONCLUSIONS The deep learning solution demonstrated promising performance in detecting and segmenting orbital abscesses on CT images in strong agreement with a human observer.
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- Roxana Fu
- Department of Ophthalmology University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
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- Departments of Radiology and Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
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- Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Departments of Radiology and Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
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- Departments of Radiology and Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
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- Departments of Radiology and Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
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- Departments of Radiology and Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
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Wang C, Huang L, Xiao S, Li Z, Ye C, Xia L, Zhou X. Early prediction of lung lesion progression in COVID-19 patients with extended CT ventilation imaging. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging 2021; 48:4339-4349. [PMID: 34137946 PMCID: PMC8210511 DOI: 10.1007/s00259-021-05435-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/2021] [Accepted: 05/25/2021] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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PURPOSE In the prediction of COVID-19 disease progression, a clear illustration and early determination of an area that will be affected by pneumonia remain great challenges. In this study, we aimed to predict and visualize the progression of lung lesions in COVID-19 patients in the early stage of illness by using chest CT. METHODS COVID-19 patients who underwent three chest CT scans in the progressive phase were retrospectively enrolled. An extended CT ventilation imaging (CTVI) method was proposed in this work that was adapted to use two chest CT scans acquired on different days, and then lung ventilation maps were generated. The prediction maps were obtained according to the fractional ventilation values, which were related to pulmonary regional function and tissue property changes. The third CT scan was used to validate whether the prediction maps could be used to distinguish healthy regions and potential lesions. RESULTS A total of 30 patients (mean age ± SD, 43 ± 10 years, 19 females, and 2-12 days between the second and third CT scans) were included in this study. The predicted lesion locations and sizes were almost the same as the true ones visualized in third CT scan. Quantitatively, the predicted lesion volumes and true lesion volumes showed both a good Pearson correlation (R2 = 0.80; P < 0.001) and good consistency in the Bland-Altman plot (mean bias = 0.04 cm3). Regarding the enlargements of the existing lesions, prediction results also exhibited a good Pearson correlation (R2 = 0.76; P < 0.001) with true lesion enlargements. CONCLUSION The present findings demonstrated that the extended CTVI method could accurately predict and visualize the progression of lung lesions in COVID-19 patients in the early stage of illness, which is helpful for physicians to predetermine the severity of COVID-19 pneumonia and make effective treatment plans in advance.
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- Cheng Wang
- School of Physics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430074, China.,State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics, National Center for Magnetic Resonance in Wuhan, Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences - Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Wuhan, 430071, China
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- Department of Radiology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430030, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics, National Center for Magnetic Resonance in Wuhan, Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences - Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Wuhan, 430071, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics, National Center for Magnetic Resonance in Wuhan, Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences - Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Wuhan, 430071, China
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- School of Physics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430074, China.,State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics, National Center for Magnetic Resonance in Wuhan, Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences - Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Wuhan, 430071, China
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- Department of Radiology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430030, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics, National Center for Magnetic Resonance in Wuhan, Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences - Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Wuhan, 430071, China.
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Pang B, Li H, Liu Q, Wu P, Xia T, Zhang X, Le W, Li J, Lai L, Ou C, Ma J, Liu S, Zhou F, Wang X, Xie J, Zhang Q, Jiang M, Liu Y, Zeng Q. CT Quantification of COVID-19 Pneumonia at Admission Can Predict Progression to Critical Illness: A Retrospective Multicenter Cohort Study. Front Med (Lausanne) 2021; 8:689568. [PMID: 34222293 PMCID: PMC8245676 DOI: 10.3389/fmed.2021.689568] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2021] [Accepted: 05/10/2021] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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Objective: Early identification of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients with worse outcomes may benefit clinical management of patients. We aimed to quantify pneumonia findings on CT at admission to predict progression to critical illness in COVID-19 patients. Methods: This retrospective study included laboratory-confirmed adult patients with COVID-19. All patients underwent a thin-section chest computed tomography (CT) scans showing evidence of pneumonia. CT images with severe moving artifacts were excluded from analysis. Patients' clinical and laboratory data were collected from medical records. Three quantitative CT features of pneumonia lesions were automatically calculated using a care.ai Intelligent Multi-disciplinary Imaging Diagnosis Platform Intelligent Evaluation System of Chest CT for COVID-19, denoting the percentage of pneumonia volume (PPV), ground-glass opacity volume (PGV), and consolidation volume (PCV). According to Chinese COVID-19 guidelines (trial version 7), patients were divided into noncritical and critical groups. Critical illness was defined as a composite of admission to the intensive care unit, respiratory failure requiring mechanical ventilation, shock, or death. The performance of PPV, PGV, and PCV in discrimination of critical illness was assessed. The correlations between PPV and laboratory variables were assessed by Pearson correlation analysis. Results: A total of 140 patients were included, with mean age of 58.6 years, and 85 (60.7%) were male. Thirty-two (22.9%) patients were critical. Using a cutoff value of 22.6%, the PPV had the highest performance in predicting critical illness, with an area under the curve of 0.868, sensitivity of 81.3%, and specificity of 80.6%. The PPV had moderately positive correlation with neutrophil (%) (r = 0.535, p < 0.001), erythrocyte sedimentation rate (r = 0.567, p < 0.001), d-Dimer (r = 0.444, p < 0.001), high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (r = 0.495, p < 0.001), aspartate aminotransferase (r = 0.410, p < 0.001), lactate dehydrogenase (r = 0.644, p < 0.001), and urea nitrogen (r = 0.439, p < 0.001), whereas the PPV had moderately negative correlation with lymphocyte (%) (r = −0.535, p < 0.001). Conclusions: Pneumonia volume quantified on initial CT can non-invasively predict the progression to critical illness in advance, which serve as a prognostic marker of COVID-19.
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- Baoguo Pang
- Department of Radiology, Huangpi District Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Radiology, Han Kou Hospital of Wuhan, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China
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- Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, National Clinical Research Center for Respiratory Disease, National Center for Respiratory Medicine, State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Diseases, Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Health, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China
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- Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, National Clinical Research Center for Respiratory Disease, National Center for Respiratory Medicine, State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Diseases, Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Health, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Respiratory, First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi University of Science and Technology, Liuzhou, China
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- Department of Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China
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- Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, National Clinical Research Center for Respiratory Disease, National Center for Respiratory Medicine, State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Diseases, Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Health, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Pediatric Hematology, Affiliated Hospital of Guizhou Medical University, Guiyang, China
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- Department of Hematology, Dawu County People's Hospital, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Hematology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China
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- National Clinical Research Center for Respiratory Disease, State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Diseases, Department of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Health, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China
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- Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, National Clinical Research Center for Respiratory Disease, National Center for Respiratory Medicine, State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Diseases, Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Health, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Pediatrics, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, China
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- Department of Respiratory, Hankou Hospital of Wuhan, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China
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Kanne JP, Bai H, Bernheim A, Chung M, Haramati LB, Kallmes DF, Little BP, Rubin GD, Sverzellati N. COVID-19 Imaging: What We Know Now and What Remains Unknown. Radiology 2021; 299:E262-E279. [PMID: 33560192 PMCID: PMC7879709 DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2021204522] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 24.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Infection with SARS-CoV-2 ranges from an asymptomatic condition to a severe and sometimes fatal disease, with mortality most frequently being the result of acute lung injury. The role of imaging has evolved during the pandemic, with CT initially being an alternative and possibly superior testing method compared with reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) testing and evolving to having a more limited role based on specific indications. Several classification and reporting schemes were developed for chest imaging early during the pandemic for patients suspected of having COVID-19 to aid in triage when the availability of RT-PCR testing was limited and its level of performance was unclear. Interobserver agreement for categories with findings typical of COVID-19 and those suggesting an alternative diagnosis is high across multiple studies. Furthermore, some studies looking at the extent of lung involvement on chest radiographs and CT images showed correlations with critical illness and a need for mechanical ventilation. In addition to pulmonary manifestations, cardiovascular complications such as thromboembolism and myocarditis have been ascribed to COVID-19, sometimes contributing to neurologic and abdominal manifestations. Finally, artificial intelligence has shown promise for use in determining both the diagnosis and prognosis of COVID-19 pneumonia with respect to both radiography and CT.
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- Jeffrey P. Kanne
- From the Department of Radiology University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health (J.P.K.); Department of Diagnostic Imaging Rhode Island Hospital and Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University (H.B.); Department of Radiology Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai 1 Gustave Levy Place, New York, NY 10029 (A.B.); Department of Radiology Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai 1 Gustave Levy Place, New York, NY 10029 (M.C.); Montefiore Medical Center Albert Einstein College of Medicine Departments of Radiology and Medicine 111 East 210 Street Bronx, NY 10467 (L.B.H.); Department of Radiology Mayo Clinic 200 First St SW Rochester, MN 55905 (D.F.K.); Department of Radiology Massachusetts General Hospital 55 Fruit Street Boston, MA 02114 (B.P.L.); Department of Medical Imaging University of Arizona College of Medicine Tucson, AZ (G.R.); Scienze Radiologiche, Department of Medicine and Surgery University of Parma V. Gramsci 14, 43126, Parma Italy (N.S.)
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- From the Department of Radiology University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health (J.P.K.); Department of Diagnostic Imaging Rhode Island Hospital and Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University (H.B.); Department of Radiology Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai 1 Gustave Levy Place, New York, NY 10029 (A.B.); Department of Radiology Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai 1 Gustave Levy Place, New York, NY 10029 (M.C.); Montefiore Medical Center Albert Einstein College of Medicine Departments of Radiology and Medicine 111 East 210 Street Bronx, NY 10467 (L.B.H.); Department of Radiology Mayo Clinic 200 First St SW Rochester, MN 55905 (D.F.K.); Department of Radiology Massachusetts General Hospital 55 Fruit Street Boston, MA 02114 (B.P.L.); Department of Medical Imaging University of Arizona College of Medicine Tucson, AZ (G.R.); Scienze Radiologiche, Department of Medicine and Surgery University of Parma V. Gramsci 14, 43126, Parma Italy (N.S.)
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- From the Department of Radiology University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health (J.P.K.); Department of Diagnostic Imaging Rhode Island Hospital and Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University (H.B.); Department of Radiology Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai 1 Gustave Levy Place, New York, NY 10029 (A.B.); Department of Radiology Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai 1 Gustave Levy Place, New York, NY 10029 (M.C.); Montefiore Medical Center Albert Einstein College of Medicine Departments of Radiology and Medicine 111 East 210 Street Bronx, NY 10467 (L.B.H.); Department of Radiology Mayo Clinic 200 First St SW Rochester, MN 55905 (D.F.K.); Department of Radiology Massachusetts General Hospital 55 Fruit Street Boston, MA 02114 (B.P.L.); Department of Medical Imaging University of Arizona College of Medicine Tucson, AZ (G.R.); Scienze Radiologiche, Department of Medicine and Surgery University of Parma V. Gramsci 14, 43126, Parma Italy (N.S.)
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- From the Department of Radiology University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health (J.P.K.); Department of Diagnostic Imaging Rhode Island Hospital and Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University (H.B.); Department of Radiology Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai 1 Gustave Levy Place, New York, NY 10029 (A.B.); Department of Radiology Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai 1 Gustave Levy Place, New York, NY 10029 (M.C.); Montefiore Medical Center Albert Einstein College of Medicine Departments of Radiology and Medicine 111 East 210 Street Bronx, NY 10467 (L.B.H.); Department of Radiology Mayo Clinic 200 First St SW Rochester, MN 55905 (D.F.K.); Department of Radiology Massachusetts General Hospital 55 Fruit Street Boston, MA 02114 (B.P.L.); Department of Medical Imaging University of Arizona College of Medicine Tucson, AZ (G.R.); Scienze Radiologiche, Department of Medicine and Surgery University of Parma V. Gramsci 14, 43126, Parma Italy (N.S.)
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- From the Department of Radiology University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health (J.P.K.); Department of Diagnostic Imaging Rhode Island Hospital and Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University (H.B.); Department of Radiology Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai 1 Gustave Levy Place, New York, NY 10029 (A.B.); Department of Radiology Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai 1 Gustave Levy Place, New York, NY 10029 (M.C.); Montefiore Medical Center Albert Einstein College of Medicine Departments of Radiology and Medicine 111 East 210 Street Bronx, NY 10467 (L.B.H.); Department of Radiology Mayo Clinic 200 First St SW Rochester, MN 55905 (D.F.K.); Department of Radiology Massachusetts General Hospital 55 Fruit Street Boston, MA 02114 (B.P.L.); Department of Medical Imaging University of Arizona College of Medicine Tucson, AZ (G.R.); Scienze Radiologiche, Department of Medicine and Surgery University of Parma V. Gramsci 14, 43126, Parma Italy (N.S.)
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- From the Department of Radiology University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health (J.P.K.); Department of Diagnostic Imaging Rhode Island Hospital and Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University (H.B.); Department of Radiology Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai 1 Gustave Levy Place, New York, NY 10029 (A.B.); Department of Radiology Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai 1 Gustave Levy Place, New York, NY 10029 (M.C.); Montefiore Medical Center Albert Einstein College of Medicine Departments of Radiology and Medicine 111 East 210 Street Bronx, NY 10467 (L.B.H.); Department of Radiology Mayo Clinic 200 First St SW Rochester, MN 55905 (D.F.K.); Department of Radiology Massachusetts General Hospital 55 Fruit Street Boston, MA 02114 (B.P.L.); Department of Medical Imaging University of Arizona College of Medicine Tucson, AZ (G.R.); Scienze Radiologiche, Department of Medicine and Surgery University of Parma V. Gramsci 14, 43126, Parma Italy (N.S.)
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- From the Department of Radiology University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health (J.P.K.); Department of Diagnostic Imaging Rhode Island Hospital and Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University (H.B.); Department of Radiology Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai 1 Gustave Levy Place, New York, NY 10029 (A.B.); Department of Radiology Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai 1 Gustave Levy Place, New York, NY 10029 (M.C.); Montefiore Medical Center Albert Einstein College of Medicine Departments of Radiology and Medicine 111 East 210 Street Bronx, NY 10467 (L.B.H.); Department of Radiology Mayo Clinic 200 First St SW Rochester, MN 55905 (D.F.K.); Department of Radiology Massachusetts General Hospital 55 Fruit Street Boston, MA 02114 (B.P.L.); Department of Medical Imaging University of Arizona College of Medicine Tucson, AZ (G.R.); Scienze Radiologiche, Department of Medicine and Surgery University of Parma V. Gramsci 14, 43126, Parma Italy (N.S.)
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- From the Department of Radiology University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health (J.P.K.); Department of Diagnostic Imaging Rhode Island Hospital and Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University (H.B.); Department of Radiology Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai 1 Gustave Levy Place, New York, NY 10029 (A.B.); Department of Radiology Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai 1 Gustave Levy Place, New York, NY 10029 (M.C.); Montefiore Medical Center Albert Einstein College of Medicine Departments of Radiology and Medicine 111 East 210 Street Bronx, NY 10467 (L.B.H.); Department of Radiology Mayo Clinic 200 First St SW Rochester, MN 55905 (D.F.K.); Department of Radiology Massachusetts General Hospital 55 Fruit Street Boston, MA 02114 (B.P.L.); Department of Medical Imaging University of Arizona College of Medicine Tucson, AZ (G.R.); Scienze Radiologiche, Department of Medicine and Surgery University of Parma V. Gramsci 14, 43126, Parma Italy (N.S.)
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- From the Department of Radiology University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health (J.P.K.); Department of Diagnostic Imaging Rhode Island Hospital and Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University (H.B.); Department of Radiology Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai 1 Gustave Levy Place, New York, NY 10029 (A.B.); Department of Radiology Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai 1 Gustave Levy Place, New York, NY 10029 (M.C.); Montefiore Medical Center Albert Einstein College of Medicine Departments of Radiology and Medicine 111 East 210 Street Bronx, NY 10467 (L.B.H.); Department of Radiology Mayo Clinic 200 First St SW Rochester, MN 55905 (D.F.K.); Department of Radiology Massachusetts General Hospital 55 Fruit Street Boston, MA 02114 (B.P.L.); Department of Medical Imaging University of Arizona College of Medicine Tucson, AZ (G.R.); Scienze Radiologiche, Department of Medicine and Surgery University of Parma V. Gramsci 14, 43126, Parma Italy (N.S.)
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Rasheed J, Jamil A, Hameed AA, Al-Turjman F, Rasheed A. COVID-19 in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: A Comprehensive Review. Interdiscip Sci 2021; 13:153-175. [PMID: 33886097 PMCID: PMC8060789 DOI: 10.1007/s12539-021-00431-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2020] [Revised: 04/03/2021] [Accepted: 04/09/2021] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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The recent COVID-19 pandemic, which broke at the end of the year 2019 in Wuhan, China, has infected more than 98.52 million people by today (January 23, 2021) with over 2.11 million deaths across the globe. To combat the growing pandemic on urgent basis, there is need to design effective solutions using new techniques that could exploit recent technology, such as machine learning, deep learning, big data, artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, for identification and tracking of COVID-19 cases in near real time. These technologies have offered inexpensive and rapid solution for proper screening, analyzing, prediction and tracking of COVID-19 positive cases. In this paper, a detailed review of the role of AI as a decisive tool for prognosis, analyze, and tracking the COVID-19 cases is performed. We searched various databases including Google Scholar, IEEE Library, Scopus and Web of Science using a combination of different keywords consisting of COVID-19 and AI. We have identified various applications, where AI can help healthcare practitioners in the process of identification and monitoring of COVID-19 cases. A compact summary of the corona virus cases are first highlighted, followed by the application of AI. Finally, we conclude the paper by highlighting new research directions and discuss the research challenges. Even though scientists and researchers have gathered and exchanged sufficient knowledge over last couple of months, but this structured review also examined technological perspectives while encompassing the medical aspect to help the healthcare practitioners, policymakers, decision makers, policymakers, AI scientists and virologists to quell this infectious COVID-19 pandemic outbreak.
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- Jawad Rasheed
- Department of Computer Engineering, Istanbul Aydin University, Istanbul, 34295, Turkey.
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- Department of Computer Engineering, Istanbul Sabahattin Zaim University, Istanbul, 34303, Turkey
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- Department of Computer Engineering, Istanbul Sabahattin Zaim University, Istanbul, 34303, Turkey
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- Artificial Intelligence Engineering Department, Research Center for AI and IoT, Near East University, Nicosia, Mersin 10, Turkey
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- Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Eastern Mediterranean University, Famagusta, Mersin 10, Turkey
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Qiblawey Y, Tahir A, Chowdhury MEH, Khandakar A, Kiranyaz S, Rahman T, Ibtehaz N, Mahmud S, Maadeed SA, Musharavati F, Ayari MA. Detection and Severity Classification of COVID-19 in CT Images Using Deep Learning. Diagnostics (Basel) 2021; 11:diagnostics11050893. [PMID: 34067937 PMCID: PMC8155971 DOI: 10.3390/diagnostics11050893] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/26/2021] [Revised: 05/09/2021] [Accepted: 05/11/2021] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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Detecting COVID-19 at an early stage is essential to reduce the mortality risk of the patients. In this study, a cascaded system is proposed to segment the lung, detect, localize, and quantify COVID-19 infections from computed tomography images. An extensive set of experiments were performed using Encoder-Decoder Convolutional Neural Networks (ED-CNNs), UNet, and Feature Pyramid Network (FPN), with different backbone (encoder) structures using the variants of DenseNet and ResNet. The conducted experiments for lung region segmentation showed a Dice Similarity Coefficient (DSC) of 97.19% and Intersection over Union (IoU) of 95.10% using U-Net model with the DenseNet 161 encoder. Furthermore, the proposed system achieved an elegant performance for COVID-19 infection segmentation with a DSC of 94.13% and IoU of 91.85% using the FPN with DenseNet201 encoder. The proposed system can reliably localize infections of various shapes and sizes, especially small infection regions, which are rarely considered in recent studies. Moreover, the proposed system achieved high COVID-19 detection performance with 99.64% sensitivity and 98.72% specificity. Finally, the system was able to discriminate between different severity levels of COVID-19 infection over a dataset of 1110 subjects with sensitivity values of 98.3%, 71.2%, 77.8%, and 100% for mild, moderate, severe, and critical, respectively.
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- Yazan Qiblawey
- Department of Electrical Engineering, Qatar University, Doha 2713, Qatar; (Y.Q.); (A.T.); (A.K.); (S.K.); (T.R.); (S.M.)
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- Department of Electrical Engineering, Qatar University, Doha 2713, Qatar; (Y.Q.); (A.T.); (A.K.); (S.K.); (T.R.); (S.M.)
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- Department of Electrical Engineering, Qatar University, Doha 2713, Qatar; (Y.Q.); (A.T.); (A.K.); (S.K.); (T.R.); (S.M.)
- Correspondence: (M.E.H.C.); (M.A.A.)
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- Department of Electrical Engineering, Qatar University, Doha 2713, Qatar; (Y.Q.); (A.T.); (A.K.); (S.K.); (T.R.); (S.M.)
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- Department of Electrical Engineering, Qatar University, Doha 2713, Qatar; (Y.Q.); (A.T.); (A.K.); (S.K.); (T.R.); (S.M.)
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- Department of Electrical Engineering, Qatar University, Doha 2713, Qatar; (Y.Q.); (A.T.); (A.K.); (S.K.); (T.R.); (S.M.)
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- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka 1205, Bangladesh;
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- Department of Electrical Engineering, Qatar University, Doha 2713, Qatar; (Y.Q.); (A.T.); (A.K.); (S.K.); (T.R.); (S.M.)
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- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Qatar University, Doha 2713, Qatar;
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- Mechanical & Industrial Engineering Department, Qatar University, Doha 2713, Qatar;
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- Technology Innovation and Engineering Education (TIEE), College of Engineering, Qatar University, Doha 2713, Qatar
- Correspondence: (M.E.H.C.); (M.A.A.)
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Chrzan R, Bociąga-Jasik M, Bryll A, Grochowska A, Popiela T. Differences among COVID-19, Bronchopneumonia and Atypical Pneumonia in Chest High Resolution Computed Tomography Assessed by Artificial Intelligence Technology. J Pers Med 2021; 11:391. [PMID: 34068751 PMCID: PMC8151449 DOI: 10.3390/jpm11050391] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2021] [Revised: 05/04/2021] [Accepted: 05/06/2021] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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The aim of this study was to compare the results of automatic assessment of high resolution computed tomography (HRCT) by artificial intelligence (AI) in 150 patients from three subgroups: pneumonia in the course of COVID-19, bronchopneumonia and atypical pneumonia. The volume percentage of inflammation and the volume percentage of "ground glass" were significantly higher in the atypical (respectively, 11.04%, 8.61%) and the COVID-19 (12.41%, 10.41%) subgroups compared to the bronchopneumonia (5.12%, 3.42%) subgroup. The volume percentage of consolidation was significantly higher in the COVID-19 (2.95%) subgroup compared to the atypical (1.26%) subgroup. The percentage of "ground glass" in the volume of inflammation was significantly higher in the atypical (89.85%) subgroup compared to the COVID-19 (79.06%) subgroup, which in turn was significantly higher compared to the bronchopneumonia (68.26%) subgroup. HRCT chest images, analyzed automatically by artificial intelligence software, taking into account the structure including "ground glass" and consolidation, significantly differ in three subgroups: COVID-19 pneumonia, bronchopneumonia and atypical pneumonia. However, the partial overlap, particularly between COVID-19 pneumonia and atypical pneumonia, may limit the usefulness of automatic analysis in differentiating the etiology. In our future research, we plan to use artificial intelligence for objective assessment of the dynamics of pulmonary lesions during COVID-19 pneumonia.
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- Robert Chrzan
- Department of Radiology, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Kopernika 19, 31-501 Krakow, Poland; (A.B.); (A.G.); (T.P.)
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Jakubowskiego 2, 30-688 Krakow, Poland;
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- Department of Radiology, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Kopernika 19, 31-501 Krakow, Poland; (A.B.); (A.G.); (T.P.)
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- Department of Radiology, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Kopernika 19, 31-501 Krakow, Poland; (A.B.); (A.G.); (T.P.)
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- Department of Radiology, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Kopernika 19, 31-501 Krakow, Poland; (A.B.); (A.G.); (T.P.)
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Summers RM. Artificial Intelligence of COVID-19 Imaging: A Hammer in Search of a Nail. Radiology 2021; 298:E162-E164. [PMID: 33350895 PMCID: PMC7769066 DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2020204226] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/06/2020] [Revised: 11/10/2020] [Accepted: 11/13/2020] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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- Ronald M. Summers
- From the Imaging Biomarkers and Computer-Aided Diagnosis Laboratory, Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences, National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, 10 Center Dr, Bldg 10, Room 1C224D, MSC 1182, Bethesda, MD 20892-1182
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Singh D, Kumar V, Kaur M. Densely connected convolutional networks-based COVID-19 screening model. APPL INTELL 2021; 51:3044-3051. [PMID: 34764584 PMCID: PMC7867501 DOI: 10.1007/s10489-020-02149-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 12/15/2020] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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The extensively utilized tool to detect novel coronavirus (COVID-19) is a real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). However, RT-PCR kits are costly and consume critical time, around 6 to 9 hours to classify the subjects as COVID-19(+) or COVID-19(-). Due to the less sensitivity of RT-PCR, it suffers from high false-negative results. To overcome these issues, many deep learning models have been implemented in the literature for the early-stage classification of suspected subjects. To handle the sensitivity issue associated with RT-PCR, chest CT scans are utilized to classify the suspected subjects as COVID-19 (+), tuberculosis, pneumonia, or healthy subjects. The extensive study on chest CT scans of COVID-19 (+) subjects reveals that there are some bilateral changes and unique patterns. But the manual analysis from chest CT scans is a tedious task. Therefore, an automated COVID-19 screening model is implemented by ensembling the deep transfer learning models such as Densely connected convolutional networks (DCCNs), ResNet152V2, and VGG16. Experimental results reveal that the proposed ensemble model outperforms the competitive models in terms of accuracy, f-measure, area under curve, sensitivity, and specificity.
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Lee EH, Zheng J, Colak E, Mohammadzadeh M, Houshmand G, Bevins N, Kitamura F, Altinmakas E, Reis EP, Kim JK, Klochko C, Han M, Moradian S, Mohammadzadeh A, Sharifian H, Hashemi H, Firouznia K, Ghanaati H, Gity M, Doğan H, Salehinejad H, Alves H, Seekins J, Abdala N, Atasoy Ç, Pouraliakbar H, Maleki M, Wong SS, Yeom KW. Deep COVID DeteCT: an international experience on COVID-19 lung detection and prognosis using chest CT. NPJ Digit Med 2021; 4:11. [PMID: 33514852 PMCID: PMC7846563 DOI: 10.1038/s41746-020-00369-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/15/2020] [Accepted: 11/13/2020] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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The Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) presents open questions in how we clinically diagnose and assess disease course. Recently, chest computed tomography (CT) has shown utility for COVID-19 diagnosis. In this study, we developed Deep COVID DeteCT (DCD), a deep learning convolutional neural network (CNN) that uses the entire chest CT volume to automatically predict COVID-19 (COVID+) from non-COVID-19 (COVID-) pneumonia and normal controls. We discuss training strategies and differences in performance across 13 international institutions and 8 countries. The inclusion of non-China sites in training significantly improved classification performance with area under the curve (AUCs) and accuracies above 0.8 on most test sites. Furthermore, using available follow-up scans, we investigate methods to track patient disease course and predict prognosis.
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- Edward H Lee
- Department of Radiology, School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA.
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- Department of Radiology, School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA
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- Unity Health Toronto, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, M5S, Canada
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- Division of Radiology, Amir Alam Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Rajaie Cardiovascular Medical and Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP), São Paulo, Brazil
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- Department of Radiology, Koç University School of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Department of Radiology, School of Medicine, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea
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- Rajaie Cardiovascular Medical and Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Radiology, School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA
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- School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Rajaie Cardiovascular Medical and Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Division of Radiology, Amir Alam Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Advanced Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology Research Center(ADIR), Medical Imaging Center, Imam Khomeini Hospital Complex, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Advanced Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology Research Center(ADIR), Medical Imaging Center, Imam Khomeini Hospital Complex, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Advanced Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology Research Center(ADIR), Medical Imaging Center, Imam Khomeini Hospital Complex, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Advanced Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology Research Center(ADIR), Medical Imaging Center, Imam Khomeini Hospital Complex, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Radiology, Koç University School of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP), São Paulo, Brazil
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- Department of Radiology, School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA
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- Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP), São Paulo, Brazil
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- Department of Radiology, Koç University School of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Rajaie Cardiovascular Medical and Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Rajaie Cardiovascular Medical and Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA
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- Department of Radiology, School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA.
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Ozsahin I, Sekeroglu B, Musa MS, Mustapha MT, Uzun Ozsahin D. Review on Diagnosis of COVID-19 from Chest CT Images Using Artificial Intelligence. COMPUTATIONAL AND MATHEMATICAL METHODS IN MEDICINE 2020; 2020:9756518. [PMID: 33014121 PMCID: PMC7519983 DOI: 10.1155/2020/9756518] [Citation(s) in RCA: 84] [Impact Index Per Article: 21.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/26/2020] [Revised: 08/28/2020] [Accepted: 09/16/2020] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
Abstract
The COVID-19 diagnostic approach is mainly divided into two broad categories, a laboratory-based and chest radiography approach. The last few months have witnessed a rapid increase in the number of studies use artificial intelligence (AI) techniques to diagnose COVID-19 with chest computed tomography (CT). In this study, we review the diagnosis of COVID-19 by using chest CT toward AI. We searched ArXiv, MedRxiv, and Google Scholar using the terms "deep learning", "neural networks", "COVID-19", and "chest CT". At the time of writing (August 24, 2020), there have been nearly 100 studies and 30 studies among them were selected for this review. We categorized the studies based on the classification tasks: COVID-19/normal, COVID-19/non-COVID-19, COVID-19/non-COVID-19 pneumonia, and severity. The sensitivity, specificity, precision, accuracy, area under the curve, and F1 score results were reported as high as 100%, 100%, 99.62, 99.87%, 100%, and 99.5%, respectively. However, the presented results should be carefully compared due to the different degrees of difficulty of different classification tasks.
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- Ilker Ozsahin
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Near East University, Nicosia / TRNC, Mersin-10, 99138, Turkey
- DESAM Institute, Near East University, Nicosia / TRNC, Mersin-10, 99138, Turkey
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- DESAM Institute, Near East University, Nicosia / TRNC, Mersin-10, 99138, Turkey
- Department of Artificial Intelligence Engineering, Near East University, Nicosia / TRNC, Mersin-10, 99138, Turkey
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Near East University, Nicosia / TRNC, Mersin-10, 99138, Turkey
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Near East University, Nicosia / TRNC, Mersin-10, 99138, Turkey
- DESAM Institute, Near East University, Nicosia / TRNC, Mersin-10, 99138, Turkey
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Near East University, Nicosia / TRNC, Mersin-10, 99138, Turkey
- DESAM Institute, Near East University, Nicosia / TRNC, Mersin-10, 99138, Turkey
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