ABSTRACT
Conventional COVID-19 testing methods have some flaws: they are expensive and time-consuming. Chest X-ray (CXR) diagnostic approaches can alleviate these flaws to some extent. However, there is no accurate and practical automatic diagnostic framework with good interpretability. The application of artificial intelligence (AI) technology to medical radiography can help to accurately detect the disease, reduce the burden on healthcare organizations, and provide good interpretability. Therefore, this study proposes a new deep neural network (CNN) based on CXR for COVID-19 diagnosis - CodeNet. This method uses contrastive learning to make full use of latent image data to enhance the model's ability to extract features and generalize across different data domains. On the evaluation dataset, the proposed method achieves an accuracy as high as 94.20%, outperforming several other existing methods used for comparison. Ablation studies validate the efficacy of the proposed method, while interpretability analysis shows that the method can effectively guide clinical professionals. This work demonstrates the superior detection performance of a CNN using contrastive learning techniques on CXR images, paving the way for computer vision and artificial intelligence technologies to leverage massive medical data for disease diagnosis.
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COVID-19 , Deep Learning , Humans , COVID-19/diagnostic imaging , COVID-19 Testing , Artificial Intelligence , Neural Networks, ComputerABSTRACT
Gastrointestinal (GI) diseases are serious health threats to human health, and the related detection and treatment of gastrointestinal diseases place a huge burden on medical institutions. Imaging-based methods are one of the most important approaches for automated detection of gastrointestinal diseases. Although deep neural networks have shown impressive performance in a number of imaging tasks, its application to detection of gastrointestinal diseases has not been sufficiently explored. In this study, we propose a novel and practical method to detect gastrointestinal disease from wireless capsule endoscopy (WCE) images by convolutional neural networks. The proposed method utilizes three backbone networks modified and fine-tuned by transfer learning as the feature extractors, and an integrated classifier using ensemble learning is trained to detection of gastrointestinal diseases. The proposed method outperforms existing computational methods on the benchmark dataset. The case study results show that the proposed method captures discriminative information of wireless capsule endoscopy images. This work shows the potential of using deep learning-based computer vision models for effective GI disease screening.