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ArticleQuantitative imaging in medicine and surgery2022

Development and validation of bone-suppressed deep learning classification of COVID-19 presentation in chest radiographs.

Ngo Fung Daniel Lam, Hongfei Sun, Liming Song, Dongrong Yang, Shaohua Zhi, Ge Ren, Pak Hei Chou, Shiu Bun Nelson Wan, Man Fung Esther Wong, King Kwong Chan and 7 more

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Article in Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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Ngo Fung Daniel LamDepartment of Health Technology and Informatics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China.
Hongfei SunDepartment of Health Technology and Informatics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China.
Liming SongDepartment of Health Technology and Informatics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China.
Dongrong YangDepartment of Health Technology and Informatics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China.
Shaohua ZhiDepartment of Health Technology and Informatics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China.
Ge RenDepartment of Health Technology and Informatics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China.
Pak Hei ChouDepartment of Health Technology and Informatics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China.
Shiu Bun Nelson WanDepartment of Radiology, Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital, Hong Kong, China.
Man Fung Esther WongDepartment of Radiology, Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital, Hong Kong, China.
King Kwong ChanDepartment of Radiology and Imaging, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Hong Kong, China.
Hoi Ching Hailey TsangDepartment of Radiology and Imaging, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Hong Kong, China.
Feng-Ming Spring KongDepartment of Clinical Oncology, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
Yì Xiáng J WángDepartment of Imaging and Interventional Radiology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
Jing QinSchool of Nursing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China.
Lawrence Wing Chi ChanDepartment of Health Technology and Informatics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China.
Michael YingDepartment of Health Technology and Informatics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China.
Jing CaiDepartment of Health Technology and Informatics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China.
Hong Kong Polytechnic University · HKQueen Elizabeth Hospital · CNPamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital · CNChinese University of Hong Kong · CNUniversity of Hong Kong · HK

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Background: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a pandemic disease. Fast and accurate diagnosis of COVID-19 from chest radiography may enable more efficient allocation of scarce medical resources and hence improved patient outcomes. Deep learning classification of chest radiographs may be a plausible step towards this. We hypothesize that bone suppression of chest radiographs may improve the performance of deep learning classification of COVID-19 phenomena in chest radiographs. Methods: Two bone suppression methods (Gusarev Results: Bone suppression of external test data was found to significantly (P<0.05) improve AUC for one classifier architecture [from 0.698 (non-suppressed) to 0.732 (Rajaraman-suppressed)]. For the other classifier architecture, suppression did not significantly (P>0.05) improve or worsen classifier performance. Conclusions: Rajaraman suppression significantly improved classification performance in one classification architecture, and did not significantly worsen classifier performance in the other classifier architecture. This research could be extended to explore the impact of bone suppression on classification of different lung pathologies, and the effect of other image enhancement techniques on classifier performance.

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bone suppressionchest radiographyClassificationcoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)deep learning

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PMID35782269
PMCPMC9246721
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