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Semantic segmentation of chest X-ray images based on the severity of COVID-19 infected patients

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  • @ARTICLE{10.4108/eai.7-7-2021.170287,
    author={D. Štifanić and J. Musulin and Z. Jurilj and S. Baressi Šegota and I. Lorencin and N. Anđelić and S. Vlahinić and T. Šušteršič and A. Blagojević and N. Filipović and Z. Car},
    title={Semantic segmentation of chest X-ray images based on the severity of COVID-19 infected patients},
    journal={EAI Endorsed Transactions on Bioengineering and Bioinformatics},
    volume={1},
    number={3},
    publisher={EAI},
    journal_a={BEBI},
    year={2021},
    month={7},
    keywords={Artificial Intelligence, COVID-19, DeepLabv3+, Semantic segmentation, X-ray images},
    doi={10.4108/eai.7-7-2021.170287}
}
  • D. Štifanić
    J. Musulin
    Z. Jurilj
    S. Baressi Šegota
    I. Lorencin
    N. Anđelić
    S. Vlahinić
    T. Šušteršič
    A. Blagojević
    N. Filipović
    Z. Car
    Year: 2021
    Semantic segmentation of chest X-ray images based on the severity of COVID-19 infected patients
    BEBI
    EAI
    DOI: 10.4108/eai.7-7-2021.170287
D. Štifanić1, J. Musulin1,*, Z. Jurilj2, S. Baressi Šegota1, I. Lorencin1, N. Anđelić1, S. Vlahinić1, T. Šušteršič3,4, A. Blagojević3,4, N. Filipović3,4, Z. Car1
  • 1: Faculty of Engineering, University of Rijeka, Vukovarska 58, 51000 Rijeka, Croatia
  • 2: Clinical Hospital Centre Rijeka, Krešimirova ul. 42, 51000 Rijeka, Croatia
  • 3: Bioengineering Research and Development Center (BioIRC), Prvoslava Stojanovića 6, 34000 Kragujevac, Serbia
  • 4: Faculty of Engineering, University of Kragujevac, Sestre Janjić 6, 34000 Kragujevac, Serbia
*Contact email: jmusulin@riteh.hr

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: As a result of this global health crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the medical industry is searching for innovations that have the potential to automate the diagnostic process of COVID-19 and serve as an assistive tool for clinicians.

OBJECTIVES: X-ray images have shown to be useful in the diagnosis of COVID-19. The goal of this research is to demonstrate an approach for automatic segmentation of lungs in chest X-ray images.

METHODS: In this research DeepLabv3+ with Xception_65, MobileNetV2, and ResNet101 as backbones are used in order to perform lung segmentation.

RESULTS: The proposed approach was experimented on X-ray images and has achieved an average mIOU of 0.910, F1 of 0.925, accuracy of 0.968, precision of 0.916, sensitivity of 0.935, and specificity of 0.977.

CONCLUSION: Based on the obtained results, the proposed approach proved to be successful in terms of lung segmentation in chest X-ray images and has a great potential for clinical use.

Keywords
Artificial Intelligence, COVID-19, DeepLabv3+, Semantic segmentation, X-ray images
Received
2021-05-10
Accepted
2021-07-04
Published
2021-07-07
Publisher
EAI
http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/eai.7-7-2021.170287

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