pt-sk/ml_research_abs huggingface dataset:
Dual_Pachi: Attention-based dual path framework with intermediate second order-pooling for Covid-19 detection from chest X-ray images.
Authors: Chiagoziem CUkwuoma, ZhiguangQin, Victor KAgbesi, Bernard MCobbinah, Sophyani BYussif, Hassan SAbubakar, Bona DLemessa
Journal: Computers in biology and medicine

Numerous machine learning and image processing algorithms, most recently deep learning, allow the recognition and classification of COVID-19 disease in medical images. However, feature extraction, or the semantic gap between low-level visual information collected by imaging modalities and high-level semantics, is the fundamental shortcoming of these techniques. On the other hand, several techniques focused on the first-order feature extraction of the chest X-Ray thus making the employed models less accurate and robust. This study presents Dual_Pachi: Attention Based Dual Path Framework with Intermediate Second Order-Pooling for more accurate and robust Chest X-ray feature extraction for Covid-19 detection. Dual_Pachi consists of 4 main building Blocks; Block one converts the received chest X-Ray image to CIE LAB coordinates (L & AB channels which are separated at the first three layers of a modified Inception V3 Architecture.). Block two further exploit the global features extracted from block one via a global second-order pooling while block three focuses on the low-level visual information and the high-level semantics of Chest X-ray image features using a multi-head self-attention and an MLP Layer without sacrificing performance. Finally, the fourth block is the classification block where classification is done using fully connected layers and SoftMax activation. Dual_Pachi is designed and trained in an end-to-end manner. According to the results, Dual_Pachi outperforms traditional deep learning models and other state-of-the-art approaches described in the literature with an accuracy of 0.96656 (Data_A) and 0.97867 (Data_B) for the Dual_Pachi approach and an accuracy of 0.95987 (Data_A) and 0.968 (Data_B) for the Dual_Pachi without attention block model. A Grad-CAM-based visualization is also built to highlight where the applied attention mechanism is concentrated.
Automated Lung-Related Pneumonia and COVID-19 Detection Based on Novel Feature Extraction Framework and Vision Transformer Approaches Using Chest X-ray Images.
Authors: Chiagoziem CUkwuoma, ZhiguangQin, Md Belal BinHeyat, FaijanAkhtar, AblaSmahi, Jehoiada KJackson, SyedFurqan Qadri, Abdullah YMuaad, Happy NMonday, Grace UNneji
Journal: Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland)

According to research, classifiers and detectors are less accurate when images are blurry, have low contrast, or have other flaws which raise questions about the machine learning model's ability to recognize items effectively. The chest X-ray image has proven to be the preferred image modality for medical imaging as it contains more information about a patient. Its interpretation is quite difficult, nevertheless. The goal of this research is to construct a reliable deep-learning model capable of producing high classification accuracy on chest x-ray images for lung diseases. To enable a thorough study of the chest X-ray image, the suggested framework first derived richer features using an ensemble technique, then a global second-order pooling is applied to further derive higher global features of the images. Furthermore, the images are then separated into patches and position embedding before analyzing the patches individually via a vision transformer approach. The proposed model yielded 96.01% sensitivity, 96.20% precision, and 98.00% accuracy for the COVID-19 Radiography Dataset while achieving 97.84% accuracy, 96.76% sensitivity and 96.80% precision, for the Covid-ChestX-ray-15k dataset. The experimental findings reveal that the presented models outperform traditional deep learning models and other state-of-the-art approaches provided in the literature.
Portable, Automated and Deep-Learning-Enabled Microscopy for Smartphone-Tethered Optical Platform Towards Remote Homecare Diagnostics: A Review.
Authors: KisooKim, Won GuLee
Journal: Small methods

Globally new pandemic diseases induce urgent demands for portable diagnostic systems to prevent and control infectious diseases. Smartphone-based portable diagnostic devices are significantly efficient tools to user-friendly connect personalized health conditions and collect valuable optical information for rapid diagnosis and biomedical research through at-home screening. Deep learning algorithms for portable microscopes also help to enhance diagnostic accuracy by reducing the imaging resolution gap between benchtop and portable microscopes. This review highlighted recent progress and continued efforts in a smartphone-tethered optical platform through portable, automated, and deep-learning-enabled microscopy for personalized diagnostics and remote monitoring. In detail, the optical platforms through smartphone-based microscopes and lens-free holographic microscopy are introduced, and deep learning-based portable microscopic imaging is explained to improve the image resolution and accuracy of diagnostics. The challenges and prospects of portable optical systems with microfluidic channels and a compact microscope to screen COVID-19 in the current pandemic are also discussed. It has been believed that this review offers a novel guide for rapid diagnosis, biomedical imaging, and digital healthcare with low cost and portability.
A systematic review: Chest radiography images (X-ray images) analysis and COVID-19 categorization diagnosis using artificial intelligence techniques.
Authors: SaravananSuba, MMuthulakshmi
Journal: Network (Bristol, England)

COVID-19 pandemic created a turmoil across nations due to Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Corona virus-1(SARS - Co-V-2). The severity of COVID-19 symptoms is starting from cold, breathing problems, issues in respiratory system which may also lead to life threatening situations. This disease is widely contaminating and transmitted from man-to-man. The contamination is spreading when the human organs like eyes, nose, and mouth get in contact with contaminated fluids. This virus can be screened through performing a nasopharyngeal swab test which is time consuming. So the physicians are preferring the fast detection methods like chest radiography images and CT scans. At times some confusion in finding out the accurate disorder from chest radiography images can happen. To overcome this issue this study reviews several deep learning and machine learning procedures to be implemented in X-ray images of chest. This also helps the professionals to find out the other types of malfunctions happening in the chest other than COVID-19 also. This review can act as a guidance to the doctors and radiologists in identifying the COVID-19 and other types of viruses causing illness in the human anatomy and can provide aid soon.
Deep progressive learning achieves whole-body low-dose 
Authors: TaisongWang, WenliQiao, YingWang, JingyiWang, YangLv, YunDong, ZhengQian, YanXing, JinhuaZhao
Journal: EJNMMI physics

To validate a total-body PET-guided deep progressive learning reconstruction method (DPR) for low-dose 
List-mode data from the retrospective study (n = 26) were rebinned into short-duration scans and reconstructed with DPR. The standard uptake value (SUV) and tumor-to-liver ratio (TLR) in lesions and coefficient of variation (COV) in the liver in the DPR images were compared to the reference (OSEM images with full-duration data). In the prospective study, another 41 patients were injected with 1/3 of the activity based on the retrospective results. The DPR images (DPR_1/3(p)) were generated and compared with the reference (OSEM images with extended acquisition time). The SUV and COV were evaluated in three selected organs: liver, blood pool and muscle. Quantitative analyses were performed with lesion SUV and TLR, furthermore on small lesions (≤ 10 mm in diameter). Additionally, a 5-point Likert scale visual analysis was performed on the following perspectives: contrast, noise and diagnostic confidence.
In the retrospective study, the DPR with one-third duration can maintain the image quality as the reference. In the prospective study, good agreement among the SUVs was observed in all selected organs. The quantitative results showed that there was no significant difference in COV between the DPR_1/3(p) group and the reference, while the visual analysis showed no significant differences in image contrast, noise and diagnostic confidence. The lesion SUVs and TLRs in the DPR_1/3(p) group were significantly enhanced compared with the reference, even for small lesions.
The proposed DPR method can reduce the administered activity of
COVID-19 classification using chest X-ray images based on fusion-assisted deep Bayesian optimization and Grad-CAM visualization.
Authors: AmeerHamza, MuhammadAttique Khan, Shui-HuaWang, MajedAlhaisoni, MeshalAlharbi, Hany SHussein, HammamAlshazly, Ye JinKim, JaehyukCha
Journal: Frontiers in public health

The COVID-19 virus's rapid global spread has caused millions of illnesses and deaths. As a result, it has disastrous consequences for people's lives, public health, and the global economy. Clinical studies have revealed a link between the severity of COVID-19 cases and the amount of virus present in infected people's lungs. Imaging techniques such as computed tomography (CT) and chest x-rays can detect COVID-19 (CXR). Manual inspection of these images is a difficult process, so computerized techniques are widely used. Deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) are a type of machine learning that is frequently used in computer vision applications, particularly in medical imaging, to detect and classify infected regions. These techniques can assist medical personnel in the detection of patients with COVID-19. In this article, a Bayesian optimized DCNN and explainable AI-based framework is proposed for the classification of COVID-19 from the chest X-ray images. The proposed method starts with a multi-filter contrast enhancement technique that increases the visibility of the infected part. Two pre-trained deep models, namely, EfficientNet-B0 and MobileNet-V2, are fine-tuned according to the target classes and then trained by employing Bayesian optimization (BO). Through BO, hyperparameters have been selected instead of static initialization. Features are extracted from the trained model and fused using a slicing-based serial fusion approach. The fused features are classified using machine learning classifiers for the final classification. Moreover, visualization is performed using a Grad-CAM that highlights the infected part in the image. Three publically available COVID-19 datasets are used for the experimental process to obtain improved accuracies of 98.8, 97.9, and 99.4%, respectively.
Efficient-ECGNet framework for COVID-19 classification and correlation prediction with the cardio disease through electrocardiogram medical imaging.
Authors: MarriamNawaz, TahiraNazir, AliJaved, Khalid MahmoodMalik, Abdul Khader JilaniSaudagar, Muhammad BadruddinKhan, Mozaherul HoqueAbul Hasanat, AbdullahAlTameem, MohammedAlKhathami
Journal: Frontiers in medicine

In the last 2 years, we have witnessed multiple waves of coronavirus that affected millions of people around the globe. The proper cure for COVID-19 has not been diagnosed as vaccinated people also got infected with this disease. Precise and timely detection of COVID-19 can save human lives and protect them from complicated treatment procedures. Researchers have employed several medical imaging modalities like CT-Scan and X-ray for COVID-19 detection, however, little concentration is invested in the ECG imaging analysis. ECGs are quickly available image modality in comparison to CT-Scan and X-ray, therefore, we use them for diagnosing COVID-19. Efficient and effective detection of COVID-19 from the ECG signal is a complex and time-taking task, as researchers usually convert them into numeric values before applying any method which ultimately increases the computational burden. In this work, we tried to overcome these challenges by directly employing the ECG images in a deep-learning (DL)-based approach. More specifically, we introduce an Efficient-ECGNet method that presents an improved version of the EfficientNetV2-B4 model with additional dense layers and is capable of accurately classifying the ECG images into healthy, COVID-19, myocardial infarction (MI), abnormal heartbeats (AHB), and patients with Previous History of Myocardial Infarction (PMI) classes. Moreover, we introduce a module to measure the similarity of COVID-19-affected ECG images with the rest of the diseases. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first effort to approximate the correlation of COVID-19 patients with those having any previous or current history of cardio or respiratory disease. Further, we generate the heatmaps to demonstrate the accurate key-points computation ability of our method. We have performed extensive experimentation on a publicly available dataset to show the robustness of the proposed approach and confirmed that the Efficient-ECGNet framework is reliable to classify the ECG-based COVID-19 samples.
COVID-19 Data Analytics Using Extended Convolutional Technique.
Authors: Anand KumarGupta, AsadiSrinivasulu, Olutayo OyeyemiOyerinde, GiovanniPau, C VRavikumar
Journal: Interdisciplinary perspectives on infectious diseases

The healthcare system, lifestyle, industrial growth, economy, and livelihood of human beings worldwide were affected due to the triggered global pandemic by the COVID-19 virus that originated and was first reported in Wuhan city, Republic Country of China. COVID cases are difficult to predict and detect in their early stages, and their spread and mortality are uncontrollable. The reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) is still the first and foremost diagnostical methodology accepted worldwide; hence, it creates a scope of new diagnostic tools and techniques of detection approach which can produce effective and faster results compared with its predecessor. Innovational through current studies that complement the existence of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) to findings in the thorax (chest) X-ray imaging, the projected research's method makes use of present deep learning (DL) models with the integration of various frameworks such as GoogleNet, U-Net, and ResNet50 to novel method those X-ray images and categorize patients as the corona positive (COVID + ve) or the corona negative (COVID -ve). The anticipated technique entails the pretreatment phase through dissection of the lung, getting rid of the environment which does now no longer provide applicable facts and can provide influenced consequences; then after this, the preliminary degree comes up with the category version educated below the switch mastering system; and in conclusion, consequences are evaluated and interpreted through warmth maps visualization. The proposed research method completed a detection accuracy of COVID-19 at around 99%.
Calibrated bagging deep learning for image semantic segmentation: A case study on COVID-19 chest X-ray image.
Authors: LucyNwosu, XiangfangLi, LijunQian, SeungchanKim, XishuangDong
Journal: PloS one

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Imaging tests such as chest X-ray (CXR) and computed tomography (CT) can provide useful information to clinical staff for facilitating a diagnosis of COVID-19 in a more efficient and comprehensive manner. As a breakthrough of artificial intelligence (AI), deep learning has been applied to perform COVID-19 infection region segmentation and disease classification by analyzing CXR and CT data. However, prediction uncertainty of deep learning models for these tasks, which is very important to safety-critical applications like medical image processing, has not been comprehensively investigated. In this work, we propose a novel ensemble deep learning model through integrating bagging deep learning and model calibration to not only enhance segmentation performance, but also reduce prediction uncertainty. The proposed method has been validated on a large dataset that is associated with CXR image segmentation. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method can improve the segmentation performance, as well as decrease prediction uncertainty.
CNN Features and Optimized Generative Adversarial Network for COVID-19 Detection from Chest X-Ray Images.
Authors: GotlurKalpana, A KanakaDurga, GKaruna
Journal: Critical reviews in biomedical engineering

Coronavirus is a RNA type virus, which makes various respiratory infections in both human as well as animals. In addition, it could cause pneumonia in humans. The Coronavirus affected patients has been increasing day to day, due to the wide spread of diseases. As the count of corona affected patients increases, most of the regions are facing the issue of test kit shortage. In order to resolve this issue, the deep learning approach provides a better solution for automatically detecting the COVID-19 disease. In this research, an optimized deep learning approach, named Henry gas water wave optimization-based deep generative adversarial network (HGWWO-Deep GAN) is developed. Here, the HGWWO algorithm is designed by the hybridization of Henry gas solubility optimization (HGSO) and water wave optimization (WWO) algorithm. The pre-processing method is carried out using region of interest (RoI) and median filtering in order to remove the noise from the images. Lung lobe segmentation is carried out using U-net architecture and lung region extraction is done using convolutional neural network (CNN) features. Moreover, the COVID-19 detection is done using Deep GAN trained by the HGWWO algorithm. The experimental result demonstrates that the developed model attained the optimal performance based on the testing accuracy of 0.9169, sensitivity of 0.9328, and specificity of 0.9032.
A survey on deep learning applied to medical images: from simple artificial neural networks to generative models.
Authors: PCelard, E LIglesias, J MSorribes-Fdez, RRomero, A SearaVieira, LBorrajo
Journal: Neural computing & applications

Deep learning techniques, in particular generative models, have taken on great importance in medical image analysis. This paper surveys fundamental deep learning concepts related to medical image generation. It provides concise overviews of studies which use some of the latest state-of-the-art models from last years applied to medical images of different injured body areas or organs that have a disease associated with (e.g., brain tumor and COVID-19 lungs pneumonia). The motivation for this study is to offer a comprehensive overview of artificial neural networks (NNs) and deep generative models in medical imaging, so more groups and authors that are not familiar with deep learning take into consideration its use in medicine works. We review the use of generative models, such as generative adversarial networks and variational autoencoders, as techniques to achieve semantic segmentation, data augmentation, and better classification algorithms, among other purposes. In addition, a collection of widely used public medical datasets containing magnetic resonance (MR) images, computed tomography (CT) scans, and common pictures is presented. Finally, we feature a summary of the current state of generative models in medical image including key features, current challenges, and future research paths.
EVAE-Net: An Ensemble Variational Autoencoder Deep Learning Network for COVID-19 Classification Based on Chest X-ray Images.
Authors: DanielAddo, ShijieZhou, Jehoiada KofiJackson, Grace UgochiNneji, Happy NkantaMonday, KwabenaSarpong, Rutherford AgbeshiPatamia, FavourEkong, Christyn AkosuaOwusu-Agyei
Journal: Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland)

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on many lives and the economies of many countries since late December 2019. Early detection with high accuracy is essential to help break the chain of transmission. Several radiological methodologies, such as CT scan and chest X-ray, have been employed in diagnosing and monitoring COVID-19 disease. Still, these methodologies are time-consuming and require trial and error. Machine learning techniques are currently being applied by several studies to deal with COVID-19. This study exploits the latent embeddings of variational autoencoders combined with ensemble techniques to propose three effective EVAE-Net models to detect COVID-19 disease. Two encoders are trained on chest X-ray images to generate two feature maps. The feature maps are concatenated and passed to either a combined or individual reparameterization phase to generate latent embeddings by sampling from a distribution. The latent embeddings are concatenated and passed to a classification head for classification. The COVID-19 Radiography Dataset from Kaggle is the source of chest X-ray images. The performances of the three models are evaluated. The proposed model shows satisfactory performance, with the best model achieving 99.19% and 98.66% accuracy on four classes and three classes, respectively.
Generative adversarial network based data augmentation for CNN based detection of Covid-19.
Authors: RutwikGulakala, BerndMarkert, MarcusStoffel
Journal: Scientific reports

Covid-19 has been a global concern since 2019, crippling the world economy and health. Biological diagnostic tools have since been developed to identify the virus from bodily fluids and since the virus causes pneumonia, which results in lung inflammation, the presence of the virus can also be detected using medical imaging by expert radiologists. The success of each diagnostic method is measured by the hit rate for identifying Covid infections. However, the access for people to each diagnosis tool can be limited, depending on the geographic region and, since Covid treatment denotes a race against time, the diagnosis duration plays an important role. Hospitals with X-ray opportunities are widely distributed all over the world, so a method investigating lung X-ray images for possible Covid-19 infections would offer itself. Promising results have been achieved in the literature in automatically detecting the virus using medical images like CT scans and X-rays using supervised artificial neural network algorithms. One of the major drawbacks of supervised learning models is that they require enormous amounts of data to train, and generalize on new data. In this study, we develop a Swish activated, Instance and Batch normalized Residual U-Net GAN with dense blocks and skip connections to create synthetic and augmented data for training. The proposed GAN architecture, due to the presence of instance normalization and swish activation, can deal with the randomness of luminosity, that arises due to different sources of X-ray images better than the classical architecture and generate realistic-looking synthetic data. Also, the radiology equipment is not generally computationally efficient. They cannot efficiently run state-of-the-art deep neural networks such as DenseNet and ResNet effectively. Hence, we propose a novel CNN architecture that is 40% lighter and more accurate than state-of-the-art CNN networks. Multi-class classification of the three classes of chest X-rays (CXR), ie Covid-19, healthy and Pneumonia, is performed using the proposed model which had an extremely high test accuracy of 99.2% which has not been achieved in any previous studies in the literature. Based on the mentioned criteria for developing Corona infection diagnosis, in the present study, an Artificial Intelligence based method is proposed, resulting in a rapid diagnostic tool for Covid infections based on generative adversarial and convolutional neural networks. The benefit will be a high accuracy of lung infection identification with 99% accuracy. This could lead to a support tool that helps in rapid diagnosis, and an accessible Covid identification method using CXR images.