Advance IoT Intelligent Healthcare System for Lung Disease Classification Using Ensemble Techniques

In healthcare systems, the Internet of Things (IoT) innovation and development approached new ways to evaluate patient data. A cloud-based platform tends to process data generated by IoT medical devices instead of high storage, and computational hardware. In this paper, an intelligent healthcare system has been proposed for the prediction and severity analysis of lung disease from chest computer tomography (CT) images of patients with pneumonia, Covid-19, tuberculosis (TB), and cancer. Firstly, the CT images are captured and transmitted to the fog node through IoT devices. In the fog node, the image gets modified into a convenient and efficient format for further processing. advanced encryption Standard (AES) algorithm serves a substantial role in IoT and fog nodes for preventing data from being accessed by other operating systems. Finally, the preprocessed image can be classified automatically in the cloud by using various transfer and ensemble learning models. Herein different pre-trained deep learning architectures (Inception-ResNet-v2, VGG-19, ResNet-50) used transfer learning is adopted for feature extraction. The softmax of heterogeneous base classifiers assists to make individual predictions. As a meta-classifier, the ensemble approach is employed to obtain final optimal results. Disease predicted image is consigned to the recurrent neural network with long short-term memory (RNN-LSTM) for severity analysis, and the patient is directed to seek therapy based on the outcome. The proposed method achieved 98.6% accuracy, 0.978 precision, 0.982 recalls, and 0.974 F1-score on five class classifications. The experimental findings reveal that the proposed framework assists medical experts with lung disease screening and provides a valuable second perspective. © 2023 CRL Publishing. All rights reserved.

Deep-CoV: An integrated deep learning model to detect COVID-19 using chest X-ray and CT images

The COVID-19 virus has fatal effect on lung function and due to its rapidity the early detection is necessary at the moment. The radiographic images have already been used by the researchers for the early diagnosis of COVID-19. Though several existing research exhibited very good performance with either x-ray or computer tomography (CT) images, to the best of our knowledge no such work has reported the assembled performance of both x-ray and CT images. Thus increase in accuracy with higher scalability is the main concern of the recent research. In this article, an integrated deep learning model has been developed for detection of COVID-19 at an early stage using both chest x-ray and CT images. The lack of publicly available data about COVID-19 disease motivates the authors to combine three benchmark datasets into a single dataset of large size. The proposed model has applied various transfer learning techniques for feature extraction and to find out the best suite. Finally the capsule network is used to categorize the sub-dataset into COVID positive and normal patients. The experimental results show that, the best performance exhibits by the ResNet50 with capsule network as an extractor-classifier pair with the combined dataset, which is composed of 575 numbers of x-ray images and 930 numbers of CT images. The proposed model achieves accuracy of 98.2% and 97.8% with x-ray and CT images, respectively, and an average of 98%. © 2023 Wiley Periodicals LLC.

A Robust Automated Framework for Classification of CT Covid-19 Images Using MSI-ResNet

Nowadays, the COVID-19 virus disease is spreading rampantly. There are some testing tools and kits available for diagnosing the virus, but it is in a limited count. To diagnose the presence of disease from radiological images, automated COVID-19 diagnosis techniques are needed. The enhancement of AI (Artificial Intelligence) has been focused in previous research, which uses X-ray images for detecting COVID-19. The most common symptoms of COVID-19 are fever, dry cough and sore throat. These symptoms may lead to an increase in the rigorous type of pneumonia with a severe barrier. Since medical imaging is not suggested recently in Canada for critical COVID-19 diagnosis, computer-aided systems are implemented for the early identification of COVID-19, which aids in noticing the disease progression and thus decreases the death rate. Here, a deep learning-based automated method for the extraction of features and classification is enhanced for the detection of COVID-19 from the images of computer tomography (CT). The suggested method functions on the basis of three main processes: data preprocessing, the extraction of features and classification. This approach integrates the union of deep features with the help of Inception 14 and VGG-16 models. At last, a classifier of Multi-scale Improved ResNet (MSI-ResNet) is developed to detect and classify the CT images into unique labels of class. With the support of available open-source COVID-CT datasets that consists of 760 CT pictures, the investigational validation of the suggested method is estimated. The experimental results reveal that the proposed approach offers greater performance with high specificity, accuracy and sensitivity. © 2023 CRL Publishing. All rights reserved.

Mixup Data Augmentation for COVID-19 Infection Percentage Estimation

The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic considerably increased the workload in hospitals. In this context, the availability of proper diagnostic tools is very important in the fight against this virus. Scientific research is constantly making its contribution in this direction. Actually, there are many scientific initiatives including challenges that require to develop deep algorithms that analyse X-ray or Computer Tomography (CT) images of lungs. One of these concerns a challenge whose topic is the prediction of the percentage of COVID-19 infection in chest CT images. In this paper, we present our contribution to the COVID-19 Infection Percentage Estimation Competition organised in conjunction with the ICIAP 2021 Conference. The proposed method employs algorithms for classification problems such as Inception-v3 and the technique of data augmentation mixup on COVID-19 images. Moreover, the mixup methodology is applied for the first time in radiological images of lungs affected by COVID-19 infection, with the aim to infer the infection degree with slice-level precision. Our approach achieved promising results despite the specific constrains defined by the rules of the challenge, in which our solution entered in the final ranking. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.

Screening Covid-19 Infection from Chest CT Images using Deep Learning Models based on Transfer Learning

As the global epidemic of Covid19 progresses, accurate diagnosis of Covid19 patients becomes important. The biggest problem in diagnosing test-positive people is the lack or lack of test kits due to the rapid spread of Covid19 in the community. As an alternative rapid diagnostic method, an automated detection system is needed to prevent Covid 19 from spreading to humans. This article proposes to use a convolutional neural network (CNN) to detect patients infected with coronavirus using computer tomography (CT) images. In addition, the transfer learning of the deep CNN model VGG16 is investigated to detect infections on CT scans. The pretrained VGG16 classifier is used as a classifier, feature extractor, and fine tuner in three different sets of tests. Image augmentation is used to boost the model's generalization capacity, while Bayesian optimization is used to pick optimum values for hyperparameters. In order to fine-tune the models and reduce training time, transfer learning is being researched. Surprisingly, all of the proposed models scored greater than 93% accuracy, which is on par with or better than previous deep learning models. The results show that optimization improved generalization in all models and highlight the efficacy of the proposed strategies. © 2022 IEEE.

COVID-19 classification based on CNNs models in CT image datasets

The COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic was a global challenge to the whole society and at the same time created a unique situation for the development of science, scientific communication and open access to scientific information. At the beginning of 2019 the world has faced a pandemic of Covid-19 coronavirus. The coronavirus impacted dramatically lives of majority people around the globe. Deep learning methods allow automatic classification of the coronavirus disease from the computer tomography (CT) scans of the lung. In our work we test several popular convolutional neural network (CNN) models to classify slices of the CT scans. In this study we indicate that the VGG-19 model gives the best classification accuracy among the other tested models such as DenseNet201, MobileNetV2, Xception, VGG-16 and ResNet50v2. In particular, the model achieves the accuracy of 99.08% for CovidX CT Dataset and 98.44% for SARS-CoV-2 CT dataset and 92.30% for UCSD COVID-CT dataset. Additionally, our results include 3D heatmaps that explain classification results for each individual model, showing regions of the lung affected by the coronavirus. © 2021 IEEE.