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ArticlePattern recognition letters2022

Application of CycleGAN and transfer learning techniques for automated detection of COVID-19 using X-ray images.

Ghazal Bargshady, Xujuan Zhou, Prabal Datta Barua, Raj Gururajan, Yuefeng Li, U Rajendra Acharya

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6 authors at 3 institutions in 4 countries.

Ghazal BargshadySchool of Business, University of Southern Queensland, 37 Sinnathamby Blvd, Springfield Central, QLD 4300, Australia.
Xujuan ZhouSchool of Business, University of Southern Queensland, 37 Sinnathamby Blvd, Springfield Central, QLD 4300, Australia.
Prabal Datta BaruaSchool of Business, University of Southern Queensland, 37 Sinnathamby Blvd, Springfield Central, QLD 4300, Australia.
Raj GururajanSchool of Business, University of Southern Queensland, 37 Sinnathamby Blvd, Springfield Central, QLD 4300, Australia.
Yuefeng LiSchool of Computer Science, Queensland University of Technology, Australia.
U Rajendra AcharyaDepartment of Electronics and Computer Engineering, Ngee Ann Polytechnic, Singapore.
University of Southern Queensland · AUAsia University · TWQueensland University of Technology · AU

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Coronavirus (which is also known as COVID-19) is severely impacting the wellness and lives of many across the globe. There are several methods currently to detect and monitor the progress of the disease such as radiological image from patients' chests, measuring the symptoms and applying polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) test. X-ray imaging is one of the popular techniques used to visualise the impact of the virus on the lungs. Although manual detection of this disease using radiology images is more popular, it can be time-consuming, and is prone to human errors. Hence, automated detection of lung pathologies due to COVID-19 utilising deep learning (Bowles et al.) techniques can assist with yielding accurate results for huge databases. Large volumes of data are needed to achieve generalizable DL models; however, there are very few public databases available for detecting COVID-19 disease pathologies automatically. Standard data augmentation method can be used to enhance the models' generalizability. In this research, the Extensive COVID-19 X-ray and CT Chest Images Dataset has been used and generative adversarial network (GAN) coupled with trained, semi-supervised CycleGAN (SSA- CycleGAN) has been applied to augment the training dataset. Then a newly designed and finetuned Inception V3 transfer learning model has been developed to train the algorithm for detecting COVID-19 pandemic. The obtained results from the proposed Inception-CycleGAN model indicated Accuracy = 94.2%, Area under Curve = 92.2%, Mean Squared Error = 0.27, Mean Absolute Error = 0.16. The developed Inception-CycleGAN framework is ready to be tested with further COVID-19 X-Ray images of the chest.

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COVID19CycleGANDeep LearningRadiological image processingTransfer Learning

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PMID34876763
PMCPMC8641403
OpenAlexW4200105351

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