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ArticleDiagnostics (Basel, Switzerland)2022

COVID-19 Detection in Chest X-ray Images Using a New Channel Boosted CNN.

Saddam Hussain Khan, Anabia Sohail, Asifullah Khan, Yeon-Soo Lee

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Article in Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 36 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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Saddam Hussain KhanPattern Recognition Laboratory, Department of Computer & Information Sciences, Pakistan Institute of Engineering & Applied Sciences, Nilore, Islamabad 45650, Pakistan.ORCID 0000-0002-6681-1987
Anabia SohailPattern Recognition Laboratory, Department of Computer & Information Sciences, Pakistan Institute of Engineering & Applied Sciences, Nilore, Islamabad 45650, Pakistan.
Asifullah KhanPattern Recognition Laboratory, Department of Computer & Information Sciences, Pakistan Institute of Engineering & Applied Sciences, Nilore, Islamabad 45650, Pakistan.ORCID 0000-0003-2039-5305
Yeon-Soo LeeDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, College of Medical Sciences, Catholic University of Daegu, Daegu 42472, Korea.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

COVID-19 is a respiratory illness that has affected a large population worldwide and continues to have devastating consequences. It is imperative to detect COVID-19 at the earliest opportunity to limit the span of infection. In this work, we developed a new CNN architecture STM-RENet to interpret the radiographic patterns from X-ray images. The proposed STM-RENet is a block-based CNN that employs the idea of split-transform-merge in a new way. In this regard, we have proposed a new convolutional block STM that implements the region and edge-based operations separately, as well as jointly. The systematic use of region and edge implementations in combination with convolutional operations helps in exploring region homogeneity, intensity inhomogeneity, and boundary-defining features. The learning capacity of STM-RENet is further enhanced by developing a new CB-STM-RENet that exploits channel boosting and learns textural variations to effectively screen the X-ray images of COVID-19 infection. The idea of channel boosting is exploited by generating auxiliary channels from the two additional CNNs using Transfer Learning, which are then concatenated to the original channels of the proposed STM-RENet. A significant performance improvement is shown by the proposed CB-STM-RENet in comparison to the standard CNNs on three datasets, especially on the stringent CoV-NonCoV-15k dataset. The good detection rate (97%), accuracy (96.53%), and reasonable F-score (95%) of the proposed technique suggest that it can be adapted to detect COVID-19 infected patients.

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channel boostingCNNcoronavirusCOVID-19deep learningpandemicSARS-CoV-2split-transform-mergetransfer learningX-ray

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PMID35204358
PMCPMC8871483

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