A Weakly Supervised Deep Learning Framework for COVID-19 CT Detection and Analysis

Ophir Gozes*, Maayan Frid-Adar, Nimrod Sagie, Asher Kabakovitch, Dor Amran, Rula Amer, Hayit Greenspan

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Abstract

The outbreak of the COVID-19 global pandemic has affected millions and has a severe impact on our daily lives. To support radiologists in this overwhelming challenge, we developed a weakly supervised deep learning framework that can detect, localize, and quantify the severity of COVID-19 disease from chest CT scans using limited annotations. The framework is designed to rapidly provide a solution during the initial outbreak of a pandemic when datasets availability is limited. It is comprised of a pipeline of image processing algorithms which includes lung segmentation, 2D slice classification, and fine-grained localization. In addition, we present the Coronascore bio-marker which corresponds to the severity grade of the disease. Finally, we present an unsupervised feature space clustering which can assist in understanding the COVID-19 radiographic manifestations. We present our results on an external dataset comprised of 199 patients from Zhejiang province, China.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationThoracic Image Analysis - Second International Workshop, TIA 2020, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2020, Proceedings
EditorsJens Petersen, Raúl San José Estépar, Alexander Schmidt-Richberg, Sarah Gerard, Bianca Lassen-Schmidt, Colin Jacobs, Reinhard Beichel, Kensaku Mori
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages84-93
Number of pages10
ISBN (Print)9783030624682
DOIs
StatePublished - 2020
Event2nd International Workshop on Thoracic Image Analysis, TIA 2020 Held in Conjunction with Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention Conference, MICCAI 2020 - Lima, Peru
Duration: 8 Oct 20208 Oct 2020

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume12502 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference2nd International Workshop on Thoracic Image Analysis, TIA 2020 Held in Conjunction with Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention Conference, MICCAI 2020
Country/TerritoryPeru
CityLima
Period8/10/208/10/20

Keywords

  • AI
  • COVID-19
  • Chest CT
  • Corona
  • Deep learning
  • Lung

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