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ArticleDiagnostics (Basel, Switzerland)2021

On the Adoption of Radiomics and Formal Methods for COVID-19 Coronavirus Diagnosis.

Antonella Santone, Maria Paola Belfiore, Francesco Mercaldo, Giulia Varriano, Luca Brunese

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Article in Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 12 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Antonella SantoneDepartment of Medicine and Health Sciences "Vincenzo Tiberio", University of Molise, 86100 Campobasso, Italy.
Maria Paola BelfioreDepartment of Precision Medicine, University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", 80138 Napoli, Italy.
Francesco MercaldoDepartment of Medicine and Health Sciences "Vincenzo Tiberio", University of Molise, 86100 Campobasso, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-9425-1657
Giulia VarrianoDepartment of Medicine and Health Sciences "Vincenzo Tiberio", University of Molise, 86100 Campobasso, Italy.
Luca BruneseDepartment of Medicine and Health Sciences "Vincenzo Tiberio", University of Molise, 86100 Campobasso, Italy.
University of Molise · ITUniversity of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli" · IT

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Considering the current pandemic, caused by the spreading of the novel Coronavirus disease, there is the urgent need for methods to quickly and automatically diagnose infection. To assist pathologists and radiologists in the detection of the novel coronavirus, in this paper we propose a two-tiered method, based on formal methods (to the best of authors knowledge never previously introduced in this context), aimed to (i) detect whether the patient lungs are healthy or present a generic pulmonary infection; (ii) in the case of the previous tier, a generic pulmonary disease is detected to identify whether the patient under analysis is affected by the novel Coronavirus disease. The proposed approach relies on the extraction of radiomic features from medical images and on the generation of a formal model that can be automatically checked using the model checking technique. We perform an experimental analysis using a set of computed tomography medical images obtained by the authors, achieving an accuracy of higher than 81% in disease detection.

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artificial intelligenceCoronavirusCOVID-19CTdiagnosisformal methodsHRCTradiologyradiomics

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PMID33673394
PMCPMC7917767
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