This regularly updated survey provides an overview of public resources that offer medical images and metadata of COVID-19 cases. The purpose of this survey is to simplify the access to open COVID-19 image data resources for all scientists currently working on the coronavirus crisis.
COVID-19 (Coronavirus disease 2019) has been quickly spreading since its outbreak, impacting financial markets and healthcare systems globally. Countries all around the world have adopted a number of extraordinary steps to restrict the spreading virus, where early COVID-19 diagnosis is essential. Medical images such as X-ray images and Computed Tomography scans are becoming one of the main diagnostic tools to combat COVID-19 with the aid of deep learning-based systems. In this survey, we investigate the main contributions of deep learning applications using medical images in fighting against C…
Shahid Beheshti University(沙希德·贝赫什提大学);Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences(沙希德·贝赫什提医科大学);University of Leeds(利兹大学);Royal Adelaide Hospital(阿德莱德皇家医院);The University of Adelaide(阿德莱德大学);Tehran University of Medical Sciences(德黑兰医科大学)
Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by a newly discovered coronavirus. The disease presents with symptoms such as shortness of breath, fever, dry cough, and chronic fatigue, amongst others. Sometimes the symptoms of the disease increase so much they lead to the death of the patients. The disease may be asymptomatic in some patients in the early stages, which can lead to increased transmission of the disease to others. Many studies have tried to use medical imaging for early diagnosis of COVID-19. This study attempts to review papers on automatic methods for medical i…
Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology(孟加拉国工程技术大学);University of Cincinnati College of Medicine(辛辛那提大学医学院);University of Cincinnati(辛辛那提大学)
The outbreak of novel coronavirus disease (COVID- 19) has claimed millions of lives and has affected all aspects of human life. This paper focuses on the application of deep learning (DL) models to medical imaging and drug discovery for managing COVID-19 disease. In this article, we detail various medical imaging-based studies such as X-rays and computed tomography (CT) images along with DL methods for classifying COVID-19 affected versus pneumonia. The applications of DL techniques to medical images are further described in terms of image localization, segmentation, registration, and classifi…
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has infected more than one million individuals all over the world and caused more than 55,000 deaths, as of April 3 in 2020. Radiological findings are important sources of information in guiding the diagnosis and treatment of COVID-19. However, the existing studies on how radiological findings are correlated with COVID-19 are conducted separately by different hospitals, which may be inconsistent or even conflicting due to population bias. To address this problem, we develop natural language processing methods to analyze a large collection of COVID-19 literat…
Queen Mary University London(伦敦玛丽女王大学);National Technical University(国立技术大学)
This paper presents the baseline approach for the organized 2nd Covid-19 Competition, occurring in the framework of the AIMIA Workshop in the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2022). It presents the COV19-CT-DB database which is annotated for COVID-19 detction, consisting of about 7,700 3-D CT scans. Part of the database consisting of Covid-19 cases is further annotated in terms of four Covid-19 severity conditions. We have split the database and the latter part of it in training, validation and test datasets. The former two datasets are used for training and validation of machine l…
COVID-19 Computer-aided Diagnosis through AI-assisted CT Imaging Analysis: Deploying a Medical AI System
University of Ioannina(约阿尼纳大学);AIandMe SMPC(AIandMe SMPC公司);National Technical University of Athens(雅典国立技术大学);Queen Mary University of London(伦敦大学玛丽皇后学院)
Empowering Medical Imaging with Artificial Intelligence: A Review of Machine Learning Approaches for the Detection, and Segmentation of COVID-19 Using Radiographic and Tomographic Images
National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London(帝国理工学院国家心肺研究所);Cardiovascular Research Centre, Royal Brompton Hospital(皇家布朗普顿医院心血管研究中心)
Medical image classification and segmentation based on deep learning (DL) are emergency research topics for diagnosing variant viruses of the current COVID-19 situation. In COVID-19 computed tomography (CT) images of the lungs, ground glass turbidity is the most common finding that requires specialist diagnosis. Based on this situation, some researchers propose the relevant DL models which can replace professional diagnostic specialists in clinics when lacking expertise. However, although DL methods have a stunning performance in medical image processing, the limited datasets can be a challeng…
Warsaw University of Technology(华沙理工大学);Medical University of Warsaw(华沙医科大学);University of Warsaw(华沙大学)
The sudden outbreak and uncontrolled spread of COVID-19 disease is one of the most important global problems today. In a short period of time, it has led to the development of many deep neural network models for COVID-19 detection with modules for explainability. In this work, we carry out a systematic analysis of various aspects of proposed models. Our analysis revealed numerous mistakes made at different stages of data acquisition, model development, and explanation construction. In this work, we overview the approaches proposed in the surveyed Machine Learning articles and indicate typical …
COVID-19 pandemic has spread rapidly and caused a shortage of global medical resources. The efficiency of COVID-19 diagnosis has become highly significant. As deep learning and convolutional neural network (CNN) has been widely utilized and been verified in analyzing medical images, it has become a powerful tool for computer-assisted diagnosis. However, there are two most significant challenges in medical image classification with the help of deep learning and neural networks, one of them is the difficulty of acquiring enough samples, which may lead to model overfitting. Privacy concerns mainl…
Tencent Jarvis Lab(腾讯Jarvis实验室);Institute of Computing Technology Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院计算技术研究所);University of Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院大学);The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University(安徽医科大学第一附属医院);University of Science and Technology of China(中国科学技术大学)
Fast screening and diagnosis are critical in COVID-19 patient treatment. In addition to the gold standard RT-PCR, radiological imaging like X-ray and CT also works as an important means in patient screening and follow-up. However, due to the excessive number of patients, writing reports becomes a heavy burden for radiologists. To reduce the workload of radiologists, we propose DeltaNet to generate medical reports automatically. Different from typical image captioning approaches that generate reports with an encoder and a decoder, DeltaNet applies a conditional generation process. In particular…
Korea University(高丽大学);Hallym University(翰林大学);Dankook University(檀国大学)
It seems as though progressively more people are in the race to upload content, data, and information online; and hospitals haven't neglected this trend either. Hospitals are now at the forefront for multi-site medical data sharing to provide groundbreaking advancements in the way health records are shared and patients are diagnosed. Sharing of medical data is essential in modern medical research. Yet, as with all data sharing technology, the challenge is to balance improved treatment with protecting patient's personal information. This paper provides a novel split learning algorithm coined th…
Domain adaptation, Explainability & Fairness in AI for Medical Image Analysis: Diagnosis of COVID-19 based on 3-D Chest CT-scans
Queen Mary University of London(伦敦玛丽女王大学);National Technical University of Athens(雅典国家技术大学);National Infrastructures for Research and Technology(国家研究与技术基础设施机构)
Islamic Azad University(伊斯兰阿扎德大学);University of Birjand(比尔詹德大学);Fasa University(法萨大学);Shahid Beheshti University(沙希德·贝赫什提大学)
COVID-19 is a novel virus that attacks the upper respiratory tract and the lungs. Its person-to-person transmissibility is considerably rapid and this has caused serious problems in approximately every facet of individuals lives. While some infected individuals may remain completely asymptomatic, others have been frequently witnessed to have mild to severe symptoms. In addition to this, thousands of death cases around the globe indicated that detecting COVID-19 is an urgent demand in the communities. Practically, this is prominently done with the help of screening medical images such as Comput…
University of Science and Technology of China(中国科学技术大学);Huawei(华为)
Early detection of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) helps to treat patients timely and increase the cure rate, thus further suppressing the spread of the disease. In this study, we propose a novel deep learning based detection and similar case recommendation network to help control the epidemic. Our proposed network contains two stages: the first one is a lung region segmentation step and is used to exclude irrelevant factors, and the second is a detection and recommendation stage. Under this framework, in the second stage, we develop a dual-children network (DuCN) based on a pre-traine…
Shanghai United Imaging Intelligence Co., Ltd.(上海联影智能医疗科技有限公司);Shanghai University(上海大学);United Imaging Intelligence(联影智能);Shanghai Jiao Tong University(上海交通大学);Beihang University(北京航空航天大学);Medical School of Nanjing University(南京大学医学院);National Institute of Healthcare Data Science at Nanjing University(南京大学国家医疗数据科学研究院)
(This paper was submitted as an invited paper to IEEE Reviews in Biomedical Engineering on April 6, 2020.) The pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is spreading all over the world. Medical imaging such as X-ray and computed tomography (CT) plays an essential role in the global fight against COVID-19, whereas the recently emerging artificial intelligence (AI) technologies further strengthen the power of the imaging tools and help medical specialists. We hereby review the rapid responses in the community of medical imaging (empowered by AI) toward COVID-19. For example, AI-empowered i…
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China(电子科技大学);Macau University of Science and Technology(澳门科技大学);Southwest Jiaotong University(西南交通大学);China Telecommunications Corporation(中国电信集团有限公司)
Medical health care centers are envisioned as a promising paradigm to handle the massive volume of data of COVID-19 patients using artificial intelligence (AI). Traditionally, AI techniques often require centralized data collection and training the model in a single organization, which is most common weakness due to the privacy and security of raw data communication. To solve this challenging task, we propose a blockchain-based federated learning framework that provides collaborative data training solutions by coordinating multiple hospitals to train and share encrypted federated models withou…
Melbourne Data Analytics Platform(墨尔本数据分析平台);University of Melbourne(墨尔本大学)
Deep learning has been used to assist in the analysis of medical imaging. One such use is the classification of Computed Tomography (CT) scans when detecting for COVID-19 in subjects. This paper presents Cov3d, a three dimensional convolutional neural network for detecting the presence and severity of COVID19 from chest CT scans. Trained on the COV19-CT-DB dataset with human expert annotations, it achieves a macro f1 score of 0.9476 on the validation set for the task of detecting the presence of COVID19. For the task of classifying the severity of COVID19, it achieves a macro f1 score of 0.755…
University of Patras(帕特雷大学);Computer Technology Institute(计算机技术研究所)
In this study, a dataset of X-Ray images from patients with common pneumonia, Covid-19, and normal incidents was utilized for the automatic detection of the Coronavirus. The aim of the study is to evaluate the performance of state-of-the-art Convolutional Neural Network architectures proposed over recent years for medical image classification. Specifically, the procedure called transfer learning was adopted. With transfer learning, the detection of various abnormalities in small medical image datasets is an achievable target, often yielding remarkable results. The dataset utilized in this expe…
Unidad Mixta de Imagen Biomédica FISABIO-CIPF(FISABIO-CIPF生物医学成像联合单元);Universidad de Alicante(阿利坎特大学);Medbravo;Hospital San Juan de Alicante(阿利坎特圣胡安医院);Universidad Miguel Hernández(米格尔·埃尔南德斯大学);Sierra Research SL(Sierra Research有限公司);Bioinformatics & Biostatistics Unit, Principe Felipe Research Center(费利佩王子研究中心生物信息学与生物统计学单元)
This paper describes BIMCV COVID-19+, a large dataset from the Valencian Region Medical ImageBank (BIMCV) containing chest X-ray images CXR (CR, DX) and computed tomography (CT) imaging of COVID-19+ patients along with their radiological findings and locations, pathologies, radiological reports (in Spanish), DICOM metadata, Polymerase chain reaction (PCR), Immunoglobulin G (IgG) and Immunoglobulin M (IgM) diagnostic antibody tests. The findings have been mapped onto standard Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) terminology and cover a wide spectrum of thoracic entities, unlike the considerab…
This review presents a comprehensive study on the role of GANs in addressing the challenges related to COVID-19 data scarcity and diagnosis. It is the first review that summarizes the different GANs methods and the lungs images datasets for COVID-19. It attempts to answer the questions related to applications of GANs, popular GAN architectures, frequently used image modalities, and the availability of source code. This review included 57 full-text studies that reported the use of GANs for different applications in COVID-19 lungs images data. Most of the studies (n=42) used GANs for data augmen…
Korea University(高丽大学);George Washington University(乔治华盛顿大学)
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an ongoing global pandemic that has spread rapidly since December 2019. Real-time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (rRT-PCR) and chest computed tomography (CT) imaging both play an important role in COVID-19 diagnosis. Chest CT imaging offers the benefits of quick reporting, a low cost, and high sensitivity for the detection of pulmonary infection. Recently, deep-learning-based computer vision methods have demonstrated great promise for use in medical imaging applications, including X-rays, magnetic resonance imaging, and CT imaging. Howeve…
Shiraz University(设拉子大学);Lancaster University(兰卡斯特大学);Tehran University of Medical Sciences(德黑兰医科大学);Bushehr University of Medical Sciences(布什尔医科大学)
The rapid outbreak of COVID-19 threatens humans life all around the world. Due to insufficient diagnostic infrastructures, developing an accurate, efficient, inexpensive, and quick diagnostic tool is of great importance. As chest radiography, such as chest X-ray (CXR) and CT computed tomography (CT), is a possible way for screening COVID-19, developing an automatic image classification tool is immensely helpful for detecting the patients with COVID-19. To date, researchers have proposed several different screening methods; however, none of them could achieve a reliable and highly sensitive per…
MS-DCANet: A Novel Segmentation Network For Multi-Modality COVID-19 Medical Images
College of Medical Informatics, Chongqing Medical University(重庆医科大学医学信息学院);College of Intelligent Technology and Engineering, Chongqing University of Science and Technology(重庆科技学院智能技术与工程学院)
COVID-19 is a global pandemic, and detecting them is a momentous task for medical professionals today due to its rapid mutations. Current methods of examining chest X-rays and CT scan requires profound knowledge and are time consuming, which suggests that it shrinks the precious time of medical practitioners when people's lives are at stake. This study tries to assist this process by achieving state-of-the-art performance in classifying chest X-rays by fine-tuning Vision Transformer(ViT). The proposed approach uses pretrained models, fine-tuned for detecting the presence of COVID-19 disease on…
Early and reliable COVID-19 diagnosis based on chest 3-D CT scans can assist medical specialists in vital circumstances. Deep learning methodologies constitute a main approach for chest CT scan analysis and disease prediction. However, large annotated databases are necessary for developing deep learning models that are able to provide COVID-19 diagnosis across various medical environments in different countries. Due to privacy issues, publicly available COVID-19 CT datasets are highly difficult to obtain, which hinders the research and development of AI-enabled diagnosis methods of COVID-19 ba…
Korea University(高丽大学);Hallym University(翰林大学);Seoul National University Hospital(首尔国立大学医院);Dankook University(檀国大学)
Machine learning requires a large volume of sample data, especially when it is used in high-accuracy medical applications. However, patient records are one of the most sensitive private information that is not usually shared among institutes. This paper presents spatio-temporal split learning, a distributed deep neural network framework, which is a turning point in allowing collaboration among privacy-sensitive organizations. Our spatio-temporal split learning presents how distributed machine learning can be efficiently conducted with minimal privacy concerns. The proposed split learning consi…
A newly identified coronavirus disease called COVID-19 mainly affects the human respiratory system. COVID-19 is an infectious disease caused by a virus originating in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. Early diagnosis is the primary challenge of health care providers. In the earlier stage, medical organizations were dazzled because there were no proper health aids or medicine to detect a COVID-19. A new diagnostic tool RT-PCR (Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction), was introduced. It collects swab specimens from the patient's nose or throat, where the COVID-19 virus gathers. This metho…
Birmingham City University(伯明翰城市大学);Assiut University(艾斯尤特大学)
Chest X-ray is the first imaging technique that plays an important role in the diagnosis of COVID-19 disease. Due to the high availability of large-scale annotated image datasets, great success has been achieved using convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for image recognition and classification. However, due to the limited availability of annotated medical images, the classification of medical images remains the biggest challenge in medical diagnosis. Thanks to transfer learning, an effective mechanism that can provide a promising solution by transferring knowledge from generic object recognit…
Melbourne Data Analytics Platform(墨尔本数据分析平台);University of Melbourne(墨尔本大学)
Improving automated analysis of medical imaging will provide clinicians more options in providing care for patients. The 2023 AI-enabled Medical Image Analysis Workshop and Covid-19 Diagnosis Competition (AI-MIA-COV19D) provides an opportunity to test and refine machine learning methods for detecting the presence and severity of COVID-19 in patients from CT scans. This paper presents version 2 of Cov3d, a deep learning model submitted in the 2022 competition. The model has been improved through a preprocessing step which segments the lungs in the CT scan and crops the input to this region. It …
Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering (CIISE)(康考迪亚信息系统工程研究所);Concordia University(康考迪亚大学);Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre(森尼布鲁克健康科学中心);University of Toronto(多伦多大学);McGill University Health Center-Research Institute(麦吉尔大学健康中心研究所);University of Calgary(卡尔加里大学)
The novel Coronavirus disease, COVID-19, has rapidly and abruptly changed the world as we knew in 2020. It becomes the most unprecedent challenge to analytic epidemiology in general and signal processing theories in specific. Given its high contingency nature and adverse effects across the world, it is important to develop efficient processing/learning models to overcome this pandemic and be prepared for potential future ones. In this regard, medical imaging plays an important role for the management of COVID-19. Human-centered interpretation of medical images is, however, tedious and can be s…
ZHAW School of Engineering(苏黎世应用科学大学工程学院);Ulm University(乌尔姆大学);University of Turin(都灵大学);European Centre for Living Technology(欧洲生命技术中心)
With the spread of COVID-19 over the world, the need arose for fast and precise automatic triage mechanisms to decelerate the spread of the disease by reducing human efforts e.g. for image-based diagnosis. Although the literature has shown promising efforts in this direction, reported results do not consider the variability of CT scans acquired under varying circumstances, thus rendering resulting models unfit for use on data acquired using e.g. different scanner technologies. While COVID-19 diagnosis can now be done efficiently using PCR tests, this use case exemplifies the need for a methodo…
Multimodal Marvels of Deep Learning in Medical Diagnosis: A Comprehensive Review of COVID-19 Detection
Institute for Intelligent Systems Research and Innovation (ISSRI), Deakin University(迪肯大学智能系统研究与创新研究所);University of New South Wales(新南威尔士大学);Bangladesh University of Business and Technology(孟加拉国商业与技术大学);Green University(绿色大学);Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University(伊玛目穆罕默德·本·沙特伊斯兰大学);Islamic University(伊斯兰大学);The University of Queensland(昆士兰大学);Artificial Intelligence and Cyber Futures Institute, Charles Stuart University(查尔斯·斯图尔特大学人工智能与网络未来研究所)
Mila, Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute(Mila,魁北克人工智能研究所);University of Montreal(蒙特利尔大学);Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Fontbonne University(方特博恩大学数学与计算机科学系);Faculty of Medicine, University of Montreal(蒙特利尔大学医学院)
This paper describes the initial COVID-19 open image data collection. It was created by assembling medical images from websites and publications and currently contains 123 frontal view X-rays.
Technical University of Munich(慕尼黑工业大学);Stanford University(斯坦福大学)
Interpreting chest radiograph, a.ka. chest x-ray, images is a necessary and crucial diagnostic tool used by medical professionals to detect and identify many diseases that may plague a patient. Although the images themselves contain a wealth of valuable information, their usefulness may be limited by how well they are interpreted, especially when the reviewing radiologist may be fatigued or when or an experienced radiologist is unavailable. Research in the use of deep learning models to analyze chest radiographs yielded impressive results where, in some instances, the models outperformed pract…
Stamford University(斯坦福德大学);Charles Sturt University(查尔斯斯特大学);University of Chittagong(吉大港大学)
Due to the limited availability and high cost of the reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) test, many studies have proposed machine learning techniques for detecting COVID-19 from medical imaging. The purpose of this study is to systematically review, assess, and synthesize research articles that have used different machine learning techniques to detect and diagnose COVID-19 from chest X-ray and CT scan images. A structured literature search was conducted in the relevant bibliographic databases to ensure that the survey solely centered on reproducible and high-quality resear…