Differentiating novel coronavirus pneumonia from general pneumonia based on machine learning.

Journal: Biomedical engineering online
Published Date: Aug 19, 2020

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Chest CT screening as supplementary means is crucial in diagnosing novel coronavirus pneumonia (COVID-19) with high sensitivity and popularity. Machine learning was adept in discovering intricate structures from CT images and achieved expert-level performance in medical image analysis.

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  • Chenglong Liu
    School of Medical Instrument and Food Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, 200093, China.
  • Xiaoyang Wang
    Department of Radiology, Ruian People's Hospital, Zhejiang, 325200, China.
  • Chenbin Liu
    Department of Radiation Oncology, Chinese Academy of Medical Science (CAMS) Shenzhen Cancer Hospital, Shenzhen, 518116, China.
  • Qingfeng Sun
    Infectious Disease Department, Ruian People's Hospital, Zhejiang, 325200, China.
  • Wenxian Peng
    College of Medical Imaging, Shanghai University of Medicine and Health Sciences, Shanghai, 201318, China. pengwx@sumhs.edu.cn.

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