Accepted for/Published in: Journal of Medical Internet Research
Date Submitted: Jan 26, 2021
Open Peer Review Period: Jan 26, 2021 - Mar 23, 2021
Date Accepted: Apr 3, 2021
Date Submitted to PubMed: Apr 27, 2021
(closed for review but you can still tweet)
Warning: This is an author submission that is not peer-reviewed or edited. Preprints - unless they show as "accepted" - should not be relied on to guide clinical practice or health-related behavior and should not be reported in news media as established information.
Deep CNN-Based CAD System for COVID-19 Detection Using Multiple Lung CT Scans
ABSTRACT
Background:
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the imminent collapse of healthcare systems following the excessive consumption of financial, hospital, and medicinal resources, the World Health Organization (WHO) changed the alert level on the COVID-19 pandemic from high to very high. Meanwhile, the world began to favor less expensive and more precise COVID-19 detection methods. Machine vision-based COVID-19 detection methods especially Deep learning as a diagnostic technique in the early stages of the disease have found great importance during the pandemic.
Objective:
This study aimed to design a highly efficient Computer-Aided Detection (CAD) system for COVID-19 by using a NASNet-based algorithm. n images of 190 persons suspected of COVID-19, was used.
Methods:
A state-of-the-art pre-trained CNN network for image feature extraction, called NASNet, was adopted to identify patients with COVID-19 in the first stages of the disease. A local dataset, comprising 10153 CT scan images of 190 persons suspected of COVID-19, was used.
Results:
After fitting on the training dataset, hyper-parameter tuning and finally topological alterations of the classifier block, the proposed NASNet-based model was evaluated on the test dataset and yielded remarkable results. The proposed model's performance achieved a detection sensitivity, specificity, and accuracy of 0.999, 0.986, and 0.996, respectively.
Conclusions:
The proposed model achieved acceptable results in the categorization of two data classes. Therefore, a CAD system was designed based on this model for COVID-19 detection using multiple lung CT scans. The system managed to differentiate all the COVID-19 cases from non-COVID-19 ones without any error in the application phase. Overall, the proposed deep learning-based CAD system can greatly aid radiologists in the detection of COVID-19 in its early stages. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the use of CAD system as a screening tool accelerates the process of disease detection and prevents the loss of healthcare resources.
Citation
Request queued. Please wait while the file is being generated. It may take some time.
Copyright
© The authors. All rights reserved. This is a privileged document currently under peer-review/community review (or an accepted/rejected manuscript). Authors have provided JMIR Publications with an exclusive license to publish this preprint on it's website for review and ahead-of-print citation purposes only. While the final peer-reviewed paper may be licensed under a cc-by license on publication, at this stage authors and publisher expressively prohibit redistribution of this draft paper other than for review purposes.