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ArticleDiagnostics (Basel, Switzerland)2021

DW-UNet: Loss Balance under Local-Patch for 3D Infection Segmentation from COVID-19 CT Images.

Cheng Chen, Jiancang Zhou, Kangneng Zhou, Zhiliang Wang, Ruoxiu Xiao

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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 2 papers.

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5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Cheng ChenSchool of Computer and Communication Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China.ORCID 0000-0002-4203-2145
Jiancang ZhouDepartment of Critical Care Medicine, Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou 310016, China.
Kangneng ZhouSchool of Computer and Communication Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China.ORCID 0000-0001-9102-9527
Zhiliang WangSchool of Computer and Communication Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China.
Ruoxiu XiaoSchool of Computer and Communication Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China.ORCID 0000-0002-2721-4813
University of Science and Technology Beijing · CNSir Run Run Shaw Hospital · CN

Funding

Beijing Natural Science Foundation-Joint funds of Haidian Original innovation Project L202030Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities FRF-DF-20-05Major Science and Technology Project of Zhejiang Province Health Commission WKJ-ZJ-2112National Key Research and Development Program of China 2017YFB1002804Non-profit Central Research Institute Fund of Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences 2020-JKCS-008
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Abstract

(1) Background: COVID-19 has been global epidemic. This work aims to extract 3D infection from COVID-19 CT images; (2) Methods: Firstly, COVID-19 CT images are processed with lung region extraction and data enhancement. In this strategy, gradient changes of voxels in different directions respond to geometric characteristics. Due to the complexity of tubular tissues in lung region, they are clustered to the lung parenchyma center based on their filtered possibility. Thus, infection is improved after data enhancement. Then, deep weighted UNet is established to refining 3D infection texture, and weighted loss function is introduced. It changes cost calculation of different samples, causing target samples to dominate convergence direction. Finally, the trained network effectively extracts 3D infection from CT images by adjusting driving strategy of different samples. (3) Results: Using Accuracy, Precision, Recall and Coincidence rate, 20 subjects from a private dataset and eight subjects from Kaggle Competition COVID-19 CT dataset tested this method in hold-out validation framework. This work achieved good performance both in the private dataset (99.94-00.02%, 60.42-11.25%, 70.79-09.35% and 63.15-08.35%) and public dataset (99.73-00.12%, 77.02-06.06%, 41.23-08.61% and 52.50-08.18%). We also applied some extra indicators to test data augmentation and different models. The statistical tests have verified the significant difference of different models. (4) Conclusions: This study provides a COVID-19 infection segmentation technology, which provides an important prerequisite for the quantitative analysis of COVID-19 CT images.

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3D convolutional neural networkCOVID-19data enhancementinfection segmentationweighted loss function

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