期刊
APPLIED INTELLIGENCE
卷 51, 期 5, 页码 3044-3051出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10489-020-02149-6
关键词
Deep learning; COVID-19; Chest CT; Transfer learning
This study highlights the limitations of RT-PCR kits in detecting COVID-19 and explores the use of deep learning models and chest CT scans for early-stage classification. The automated COVID-19 screening model using deep transfer learning models outperformed competitive models in terms of accuracy, f-measure, area under curve, sensitivity, and specificity.
The extensively utilized tool to detect novel coronavirus (COVID-19) is a real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). However, RT-PCR kits are costly and consume critical time, around 6 to 9 hours to classify the subjects as COVID-19(+) or COVID-19(-). Due to the less sensitivity of RT-PCR, it suffers from high false-negative results. To overcome these issues, many deep learning models have been implemented in the literature for the early-stage classification of suspected subjects. To handle the sensitivity issue associated with RT-PCR, chest CT scans are utilized to classify the suspected subjects as COVID-19 (+), tuberculosis, pneumonia, or healthy subjects. The extensive study on chest CT scans of COVID-19 (+) subjects reveals that there are some bilateral changes and unique patterns. But the manual analysis from chest CT scans is a tedious task. Therefore, an automated COVID-19 screening model is implemented by ensembling the deep transfer learning models such as Densely connected convolutional networks (DCCNs), ResNet152V2, and VGG16. Experimental results reveal that the proposed ensemble model outperforms the competitive models in terms of accuracy, f-measure, area under curve, sensitivity, and specificity.
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