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ArticleEuropean journal of radiology2022

Performance of a computer aided diagnosis system for SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia based on ultrasound images.

Shiyao Shang, Chunwang Huang, Wenxiao Yan, Rumin Chen, Jinglin Cao, Yukun Zhang, Yanhui Guo, Guoqing Du

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Article in European journal of radiology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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Shiyao ShangDepartment of Ultrasound, Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital, Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences, Guangzhou, China.
Chunwang HuangDepartment of Ultrasound, Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital, Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences, Guangzhou, China.
Wenxiao YanDepartment of Ultrasound, Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital, Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences, Guangzhou, China.
Rumin ChenDepartment of Ultrasound, Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital, Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences, Guangzhou, China.
Jinglin CaoDepartment of Ultrasound, Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital, Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences, Guangzhou, China.
Yukun ZhangDepartment of Ultrasound, Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital, Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences, Guangzhou, China.
Yanhui GuoDepartment of Computer Science, University of Illinois Springfield, Springfield, IL USA. Electronic address: yguo56@uis.edu.
Guoqing DuDepartment of Ultrasound, Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital, Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences, Guangzhou, China. Electronic address: duguoqing@gdph.org.cn.
Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences · CNGuangdong Provincial People's Hospital · CNUniversity of Illinois at Springfield · US

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Abstract

purposeIn this study we aimed to leverage deep learning to develop a computer aided diagnosis (CAD) system toward helping radiologists in the diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2 virus syndrome on Lung ultrasonography (LUS).

methodA CAD system is developed based on a transfer learning of a residual network (ResNet) to extract features on LUS and help radiologists to distinguish SARS-CoV-2 virus syndrome from healthy and non-SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia. A publicly available LUS dataset for SARS-CoV-2 virus syndrome consisting of 3909 images has been employed. Six radiologists with different experiences participated in the experiment. A comprehensive LUS data set was constructed and employed to train and verify the proposed method. Several metrics such as accuracy, recall, precision, and F1-score, are used to evaluate the performance of the proposed CAD approach. The performances of the radiologists with and without the help of CAD are also evaluated quantitively. The p-values of the t-test shows that with the help of the CAD system, both junior and senior radiologists significantly improve their diagnosis performance on both balanced and unbalanced datasets.

resultsExperimental results indicate the proposed CAD approach and the machine features from it can significantly improve the radiologists' performance in the SARS-CoV-2 virus syndrome diagnosis. With the help of the proposed CAD system, the junior and senior radiologists achieved F1-score values of 91.33% and 95.79% on balanced dataset and 94.20% and 96.43% on unbalanced dataset. The proposed approach is verified on an independent test dataset and reports promising performance.

conclusionsThe proposed CAD system reports promising performance in facilitating radiologists' diagnosis SARS-CoV-2 virus syndrome and might assist the development of a fast, accessible screening method for pulmonary diseases.

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COVID-19SARS-CoV-2ComputersDiagnosis, Computer-AssistedHumansUltrasonographyComputer aided diagnosisDeep learningLung ultrasoundSARS-CoV-2 virus syndrome diagnosis

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PMCPMC8609670
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