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ArticleDose-response : a publication of International Hormesis Society

Evaluation of AI-Based Segmentation Tools for COVID-19 Lung Lesions on Conventional and Ultra-low Dose CT Scans.

Marco Aiello, Dario Baldi, Giuseppina Esposito, Marika Valentino, Marco Randon, Marco Salvatore, Carlo Cavaliere

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7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Marco AielloIRCCS SDN, Naples, Italy.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3676-0664
Dario BaldiIRCCS SDN, Naples, Italy.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7464-4499
Giuseppina EspositoBio Check Up S.r.l, Naples, Italy.
Marika ValentinoIstituto di Scienze Applicate e Sistemi Intelligenti "Eduardo Caianiello" (ISASI-CNR), Pozzuoli, Italy.
Marco RandonBio Check Up S.r.l, Naples, Italy.
Marco SalvatoreIRCCS SDN, Naples, Italy.
Carlo CavaliereIRCCS SDN, Naples, Italy.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3297-2213
SDN Istituto di Ricerca Diagnostica e Nucleare · ITInstitute of Applied Science and Intelligent Systems · IT

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A reliable diagnosis and accurate monitoring are pivotal steps for treatment and prevention of COVID-19. Chest computed tomography (CT) has been considered a crucial diagnostic imaging technique for the injury assessment of the viral pneumonia. Furthermore, the automatization of the segmentation methods for lung alterations helps to speed up the diagnosis and lighten radiologists' workload. Considering the assiduous pathology monitoring, ultra-low dose (ULD) chest CT protocols have been implemented to drastically reduce the radiation burden. Unfortunately, the available AI technologies have not been trained on ULD-CT data and validated and their applicability deserves careful evaluation. Therefore, this work aims to compare the results of available AI tools (BCUnet, CORADS AI, NVIDIA CLARA Train SDK and CT Pneumonia Analysis) on a dataset of 73 CT examinations acquired both with conventional dose (CD) and ULD protocols. COVID-19 volume percentage, resulting from each tool, was statistically compared. This study demonstrated high comparability of the results on CD-CT and ULD-CT data among the four AI tools, with high correlation between the results obtained on both protocols (R > .68, P < .001, for all AI tools).

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artificial intelligenceCOVID-19deep learningsegmentation algorithmsultra-low dose

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PMID35422680
PMCPMC9002358
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