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ArticleNeural computing & applications2021

Detection of COVID-19 from CT scan images: A spiking neural network-based approach.

Avishek Garain, Arpan Basu, Fabio Giampaolo, Juan D Velasquez, Ram Sarkar

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Article in Neural computing & applications, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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  2. Role of Artificial Intelligence in COVID-19 Detection.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021
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Avishek GarainDepartment of Computer Science and Engineering, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, 700032 India.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6225-3343
Arpan BasuDepartment of Computer Science and Engineering, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, 700032 India.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9291-0268
Fabio GiampaoloDepartment of Mathematics and Applications "R. Caccioppoli", University of Naples Federico II, Naples, NA Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-5414-3435
Juan D VelasquezDepartment of Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Instituto Sistemas Complejos de Ingeniería (ISCI), University of Chile, Santiago, Chile.ORCID 0000-0001-7775-3009
Ram SarkarDepartment of Computer Science and Engineering, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, 700032 India.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8813-4086

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The outbreak of a global pandemic called coronavirus has created unprecedented circumstances resulting into a large number of deaths and risk of community spreading throughout the world. Desperate times have called for desperate measures to detect the disease at an early stage via various medically proven methods like chest computed tomography (CT) scan, chest X-Ray, etc., in order to prevent the virus from spreading across the community. Developing deep learning models for analysing these kinds of radiological images is a well-known methodology in the domain of computer based medical image analysis. However, doing the same by mimicking the biological models and leveraging the newly developed neuromorphic computing chips might be more economical. These chips have been shown to be more powerful and are more efficient than conventional central and graphics processing units. Additionally, these chips facilitate the implementation of spiking neural networks (SNNs) in real-world scenarios. To this end, in this work, we have tried to simulate the SNNs using various deep learning libraries. We have applied them for the classification of chest CT scan images into COVID and non-COVID classes. Our approach has achieved very high F1 score of 0.99 for the potential-based model and outperforms many state-of-the-art models. The working code associated with our present work can be found here.

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COVID-19CT scanDeep learningMedical imageSpiking neural network

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PMID33879976
PMCPMC8050640

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