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. 2022 Feb:141:105134.
doi: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2021.105134. Epub 2021 Dec 14.

A computer-aided diagnosis system for the classification of COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 pneumonia on chest X-ray images by integrating CNN with sparse autoencoder and feed forward neural network

Gayathri J L  1 , Bejoy Abraham  2 , Sujarani M S  3 , Madhu S Nair  4
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A computer-aided diagnosis system for the classification of COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 pneumonia on chest X-ray images by integrating CNN with sparse autoencoder and feed forward neural network

Gayathri J L et al. Comput Biol Med. 2022 Feb.

Abstract

Several infectious diseases have affected the lives of many people and have caused great dilemmas all over the world. COVID-19 was declared a pandemic caused by a newly discovered virus named Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) by the World Health Organisation in 2019. RT-PCR is considered the golden standard for COVID-19 detection. Due to the limited RT-PCR resources, early diagnosis of the disease has become a challenge. Radiographic images such as Ultrasound, CT scans, X-rays can be used for the detection of the deathly disease. Developing deep learning models using radiographic images for detecting COVID-19 can assist in countering the outbreak of the virus. This paper presents a computer-aided detection model utilizing chest X-ray images for combating the pandemic. Several pre-trained networks and their combinations have been used for developing the model. The method uses features extracted from pre-trained networks along with Sparse autoencoder for dimensionality reduction and a Feed Forward Neural Network (FFNN) for the detection of COVID-19. Two publicly available chest X-ray image datasets, consisting of 504 COVID-19 images and 542 non-COVID-19 images, have been combined to train the model. The method was able to achieve an accuracy of 0.9578 and an AUC of 0.9821, using the combination of InceptionResnetV2 and Xception. Experiments have proved that the accuracy of the model improves with the usage of sparse autoencoder as the dimensionality reduction technique.

Keywords: CNN; COVID-19; Computer-aided detection; Feed forward neural network; Sparse autoencoder.

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Architecture of the proposed method.
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Graphical analysis of model performance using Single-CNN without using sparse autoencoder.
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Graphical analysis of model performance using Multi-CNN without using sparse autoencoder.
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Graphical analysis of Multi-CNN model performance after performing dimension reduction using sparse autoencoder.
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Comparison of accuracy before and after employing sparse autoencoder as the dimensionality reduction technique.
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