Fully automatic pipeline of convolutional neural networks and capsule networks to distinguish COVID-19 from community-acquired pneumonia via CT images.

Journal: Computers in biology and medicine
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Chest computed tomography (CT) is crucial in the diagnosis of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). However, the persistent pandemic and similar CT manifestations between COVID-19 and community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) raise methodological requirements.

Authors

  • Qianqian Qi
    College of Medicine and Biological Information Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China; Key Laboratory of Intelligent Computing in Medical Image, Ministry of Education, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China. Electronic address: 386489753@qq.com.
  • Shouliang Qi
    Sino-Dutch Biomedical and Information Engineering School, Northeastern University, Life Science Building, 500 Zhihui Street, Hun'nan District, Shenyang, 110169, China. qisl@bmie.neu.edu.cn.
  • Yanan Wu
    School of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering, Ludong University, Yantai, Shandong 264025, China.
  • Chen Li
    School of Computer Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China.
  • Bin Tian
    Department of Medical Imaging, The Affiliated Hospital of Guizhou Medical University, Guiyang, Guizhou, China.
  • Shuyue Xia
  • Jigang Ren
    Department of Radiology, The Affiliated Hospital of Guizhou Medical University, Guiyang, China.
  • Liming Yang
    College of Science, China Agricultural University, 100083, Beijing, China. Electronic address: cauyanglm@163.com.
  • Hanlin Wang
    Department of Radiology, General Hospital of the Yangtze River Shipping, Wuhan, China. Electronic address: 75288763@qq.com.
  • Hui Yu
    Engineering Technology Research Center of Shanxi Province for Opto-Electric Information and Instrument, Taiyuan 030051, China. 13934603474@nuc.edu.cn.