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ArticleBMC medical imaging2021

UMLF-COVID: an unsupervised meta-learning model specifically designed to identify X-ray images of COVID-19 patients.

Rui Miao, Xin Dong, Sheng-Li Xie, Yong Liang, Sio-Long Lo

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Article in BMC medical imaging, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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Rui Miao *Institute of Systems Engineering, Macau University of Science and Technology, Avenida Wai Long, Taipa, Macau, China.
Xin Dong *Institute of Systems Engineering, Macau University of Science and Technology, Avenida Wai Long, Taipa, Macau, China.
Sheng-Li XieGuangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Joint Laboratory for Smart Discrete Manufacturing, Guangzhou, 510006, China.
Yong LiangInstitute of Systems Engineering, Macau University of Science and Technology, Avenida Wai Long, Taipa, Macau, China.
Sio-Long LoFaculty of Information Technology, Macau University of Science and Technology, Avenida Wai Long, Taipa, Macau, China. luoslresearch@gmail.com.

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macau science and technology development 0056/2020/AFJ
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Abstract

backgroundWith the rapid spread of COVID-19 worldwide, quick screening for possible COVID-19 patients has become the focus of international researchers. Recently, many deep learning-based Computed Tomography (CT) image/X-ray image fast screening models for potential COVID-19 patients have been proposed. However, the existing models still have two main problems. First, most of the existing supervised models are based on pre-trained model parameters. The pre-training model needs to be constructed on a dataset with features similar to those in COVID-19 X-ray images, which limits the construction and use of the model. Second, the number of categories based on the X-ray dataset of COVID-19 and other pneumonia patients is usually imbalanced. In addition, the quality is difficult to distinguish, leading to non-ideal results with the existing model in the multi-class classification COVID-19 recognition task. Moreover, no researchers have proposed a COVID-19 X-ray image learning model based on unsupervised meta-learning.

methodsThis paper first constructed an unsupervised meta-learning model for fast screening of COVID-19 patients (UMLF-COVID). This model does not require a pre-trained model, which solves the limitation problem of model construction, and the proposed unsupervised meta-learning framework solves the problem of sample imbalance and sample quality.

resultsThe UMLF-COVID model is tested on two real datasets, each of which builds a three-category and four-category model. And the experimental results show that the accuracy of the UMLF-COVID model is 3-10% higher than that of the existing models.

conclusionIn summary, we believe that the UMLF-COVID model is a good complement to COVID-19 X-ray fast screening models.

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Deep LearningAlgorithmsCOVID-19Datasets as TopicHumansImage Processing, Computer-AssistedSARS-CoV-2Tomography, X-Ray ComputedCNNCOVID-19UMLF-COVIDX-ray

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