Cited by 472COVID-19 diagnosis using AIArtificial Intelligence in Healthcare and EducationAdvanced Neural Network Applications

COVID-19 Detection Through Transfer Learning Using Multimodal Imaging Data

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Horry, Michael J., Chakraborty, Subrata, Paul, Manoranjan, Ulhaq, Anwaar, Pradhan, Biswajeet, Saha, Manas, Shukla, Nagesh·2020·IEEE Access

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Detecting COVID-19 early may help in devising an appropriate treatment plan and disease containment decisions. In this study, we demonstrate how transfer learning from deep learning models can be used to perform COVID-19 detection using images from three most commonly used medical imaging modes X-Ray, Ultrasound, and CT scan. The aim is to provide over-stressed medical professionals a second pair of eyes through intelligent deep learning image classification models. We identify a suitableConvolutional Neural Network(CNN) model through initial comparative study of several popular CNN models. We then optimize the selected VGG19 model for the image modalities to show how the models can be used for the highly scarce and challenging COVID-19 datasets. We highlight the challenges (including dataset size and quality) in utilizing current publicly available COVID-19 datasets for developing useful deep learning models and how it adversely impacts the trainability of complex models. We also propose an image pre-processing stage to create a trustworthy image dataset for developing and testing the deep learning models. The new approach is aimed to reduce unwanted noise from the images so that deep learning models can focus on detecting diseases with specific features from them. Our results indicate that Ultrasound images provide superior detection accuracy compared to X-Ray and CT scans. The experimental results highlight that with limited data, most of the deeper networks struggle to train well and provides less consistency over the three imaging modes we are using. The selected VGG19 model, which is then extensively tuned with appropriate parameters, performs in considerable levels of COVID-19 detection against pneumonia or normal for all three lung image modes with the precision of up to 86% for X-Ray, 100% for Ultrasound and 84% for CT scans.

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Authors
Horry, M. J., Chakraborty, S., Paul, M., Ulhaq, A., Pradhan, B., Saha, M., & Shukla, N.
Affiliations
  • University of Technology Sydney (AU)
  • Charles Sturt University (AU)
Corresponding author
Chakraborty, Subrata
Venue
IEEE Access
Published
2020
Volume
8
Pages
149808-149824
ISSN
2169-3536 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W3049131298
Cited by
472
References
110
Citations by year
2026: 16 · 2025: 33 · 2024: 54 · 2023: 86 · 2022: 149 · 2021: 124 · 2020: 10
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44.93
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journal article
Language
en
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Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging › COVID-19 diagnosis using AI
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Health Informatics › Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Advanced Neural Network Applications
Keywords
COVID-19 detection, transfer learning, multimodal medical imaging, chest radiography, ultrasonography, computed tomography, VGG19, convolutional neural networks, image preprocessing, image denoising, limited training data, pneumonia classification, automated disease diagnosis

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