UMLF-COVID: an unsupervised meta-learning model specifically designed to identify X-ray images of COVID-19 patients.
BMC Med Imaging
; 21(1): 174, 2021 11 22.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1528681
ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND:
With the rapid spread of COVID-19 worldwide, quick screening for possible COVID-19 patients has become the focus of international researchers. Recently, many deep learning-based Computed Tomography (CT) image/X-ray image fast screening models for potential COVID-19 patients have been proposed. However, the existing models still have two main problems. First, most of the existing supervised models are based on pre-trained model parameters. The pre-training model needs to be constructed on a dataset with features similar to those in COVID-19 X-ray images, which limits the construction and use of the model. Second, the number of categories based on the X-ray dataset of COVID-19 and other pneumonia patients is usually imbalanced. In addition, the quality is difficult to distinguish, leading to non-ideal results with the existing model in the multi-class classification COVID-19 recognition task. Moreover, no researchers have proposed a COVID-19 X-ray image learning model based on unsupervised meta-learning.METHODS:
This paper first constructed an unsupervised meta-learning model for fast screening of COVID-19 patients (UMLF-COVID). This model does not require a pre-trained model, which solves the limitation problem of model construction, and the proposed unsupervised meta-learning framework solves the problem of sample imbalance and sample quality.RESULTS:
The UMLF-COVID model is tested on two real datasets, each of which builds a three-category and four-category model. And the experimental results show that the accuracy of the UMLF-COVID model is 3-10% higher than that of the existing models.CONCLUSION:
In summary, we believe that the UMLF-COVID model is a good complement to COVID-19 X-ray fast screening models.Keywords
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MEDLINE
Main subject:
Tomography, X-Ray Computed
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Deep Learning
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COVID-19
Type of study:
Diagnostic study
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Reviews
Limits:
Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
BMC Med Imaging
Journal subject:
Diagnostic Imaging
Year:
2021
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
S12880-021-00704-2
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