Статья

Can AI Help in Screening Viral and COVID-19 Pneumonia?

Muhammad E. H. ChowdhuryDepartment of Electrical Engineering, Qatar University, Doha, QatarTawsifur RahmanDepartment of Biomedical Physics and Technology, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, BangladeshAmith KhandakarDepartment of Electrical Engineering, Qatar University, Doha, QatarRashid MazharThoracic Surgery, Hamad General Hospital, Doha, QatarMuhammad Abdul KadirDepartment of Biomedical Physics and Technology, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, BangladeshZaid Bin MahbubDepartment of Mathematics and Physics, North South University, Dhaka, BangladeshKhandaker Reajul IslamDepartment of Orthodontics, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University, Dhaka, BangladeshMuhammad Salman KhanArtificial Intelligence in Healthcare, Intelligent Information Processing Laboratory, National Center for Artificial Intelligence, University of Engineering and Technology, Peshawar, PakistanAtif IqbalDepartment of Electrical Engineering, Qatar University, Doha, QatarNasser Al EmadiArtificial Intelligence in Healthcare, Intelligent Information Processing Laboratory, National Center for Artificial Intelligence, University of Engineering and Technology, Peshawar, PakistanMamun Bin Ibne ReazDepartment of Electrical, Electronic and Systems Engineering, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi, MalaysiaMohammad Tariqul IslamDepartment of Electrical, Electronic and Systems Engineering, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi, Malaysia

2020en

ABI

Аннотация

Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is a pandemic disease, which has already caused thousands of causalities and infected several millions of people worldwide. Any technological tool enabling rapid screening of the COVID-19 infection with high accuracy can be crucially helpful to the healthcare professionals. The main clinical tool currently in use for the diagnosis of COVID-19 is the Reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR), which is expensive, less-sensitive and requires specialized medical personnel. X-ray imaging is an easily accessible tool that can be an excellent alternative in the COVID-19 diagnosis. This research was taken to investigate the utility of artificial intelligence (AI) in the rapid and accurate detection of COVID-19 from chest X-ray images. The aim of this paper is to propose a robust technique for automatic detection of COVID-19 pneumonia from digital chest X-ray images applying pre-trained deep-learning algorithms while maximizing the detection accuracy. A public database was created by the authors combining several public databases and also by collecting images from recently published articles. The database contains a mixture of 423 COVID-19, 1485 viral pneumonia, and 1579 normal chest X-ray images. Transfer learning technique was used with the help of image augmentation to train and validate several pre-trained deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). The networks were trained to classify two different schemes: i) normal and COVID-19 pneumonia; ii) normal, viral and COVID-19 pneumonia with and without image augmentation. The classification accuracy, precision, sensitivity, and specificity for both the schemes were 99.7%, 99.7%, 99.7% and 99.55% and 97.9%, 97.95%, 97.9%, and 98.8%, respectively. The high accuracy of this computer-aided diagnostic tool can significantly improve the speed and accuracy of COVID-19 diagnosis. This would be extremely useful in this pandemic where disease burden and need for preventive measures are at odds with available resources.

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DOI: 10.1109/access.2020.3010287

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