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ArticleMicroscopy research and technique2022

Microscopic segmentation and classification of COVID-19 infection with ensemble convolutional neural network.

Javeria Amin, Muhammad Almas Anjum, Muhammad Sharif, Amjad Rehman, Tanzila Saba, Rida Zahra

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Javeria AminDepartment of Computer Science, University of Wah, Wah Cantt, Pakistan.
Muhammad Almas AnjumDean of University, National University of Technology (NUTECH), Islamabad, Pakistan.
Muhammad SharifDepartment of Computer Science, COMSATS University Islamabad Wah Campus, Wah Cantt, Pakistan.
Amjad RehmanArtificial Intelligence & Data Analytics Lab, CCIS Prince Sultan University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3817-2655
Tanzila SabaArtificial Intelligence & Data Analytics Lab, CCIS Prince Sultan University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6718-3866
Rida ZahraDepartment of Computer Science, University of Wah, Wah Cantt, Pakistan.

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The detection of biological RNA from sputum has a comparatively poor positive rate in the initial/early stages of discovering COVID-19, as per the World Health Organization. It has a different morphological structure as compared to healthy images, manifested by computer tomography (CT). COVID-19 diagnosis at an early stage can aid in the timely cure of patients, lowering the mortality rate. In this reported research, three-phase model is proposed for COVID-19 detection. In Phase I, noise is removed from CT images using a denoise convolutional neural network (DnCNN). In the Phase II, the actual lesion region is segmented from the enhanced CT images by using deeplabv3 and ResNet-18. In Phase III, segmented images are passed to the stack sparse autoencoder (SSAE) deep learning model having two stack auto-encoders (SAE) with the selected hidden layers. The designed SSAE model is based on both SAE and softmax layers for COVID19 classification. The proposed method is evaluated on actual patient data of Pakistan Ordinance Factories and other public benchmark data sets with different scanners/mediums. The proposed method achieved global segmentation accuracy of 0.96 and 0.97 for classification.

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COVID-19COVID-19 TestingHumansNeural Networks, ComputerSARS-CoV-2Tomography, X-Ray ComputedDeeplabv3denoise convolutional neural network (DnCNN)healthcarepublic healthResNet-18stack sparse autoencoder deep learning model (SSAE)

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