Automated classification method of COVID-19 cases from chest CT volumes using 2D and 3D hybrid CNN for anisotropic volumes

Masahiro Oda; Tong Zheng; Yuichiro Hayashi; Yoshito Otake; Masahiro Hashimoto M.D.; Toshiaki Akashi M.D.; Shigeki Aoki M.D.; Kensaku Mori

doi:10.1117/12.2613317

4 April 2022 Automated classification method of COVID-19 cases from chest CT volumes using 2D and 3D hybrid CNN for anisotropic volumes

Masahiro Oda, Tong Zheng, Yuichiro Hayashi, Yoshito Otake, Masahiro Hashimoto M.D., Toshiaki Akashi M.D., Shigeki Aoki M.D., Kensaku Mori

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Proceedings Volume 12033, Medical Imaging 2022: Computer-Aided Diagnosis; 1203309 (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2613317
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2022, San Diego, California, United States

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This paper proposes an automated classification method of chest CT volumes based on likelihood of COVID-19 cases. Novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) spreads over the world, causing a large number of infected patients and deaths. Sudden increase in the number of COVID-19 patients causes a manpower shortage in medical institutions. Computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) system provides quick and quantitative diagnosis results. CAD system for COVID-19 enables efficient diagnosis workflow and contributes to reduce such manpower shortage. This paper proposes an automated classification method of chest CT volumes for COVID-19 diagnosis assistance. We propose a COVID-19 classification convolutional neural network (CNN) that has a 2D/3D hybrid feature extraction flows. The 2D/3D hybrid feature extraction flows are designed to effectively extract image features from anisotropic volumes such as chest CT volumes for diagnosis. The flows extract image features on three mutually perpendicular planes in CT volumes and then combine the features to perform classification. Classification accuracy of the proposed method was evaluated using a dataset that contains 1288 CT volumes. An averaged classification accuracy was 83.3%. The accuracy was higher than that of a classification CNN which does not have 2D and 3D hybrid feature extraction flows.

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Masahiro Oda, Tong Zheng, Yuichiro Hayashi, Yoshito Otake, Masahiro Hashimoto M.D., Toshiaki Akashi M.D., Shigeki Aoki M.D., and Kensaku Mori "Automated classification method of COVID-19 cases from chest CT volumes using 2D and 3D hybrid CNN for anisotropic volumes", Proc. SPIE 12033, Medical Imaging 2022: Computer-Aided Diagnosis, 1203309 (4 April 2022); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2613317

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