The application of deep learning for COVID-19 diagnosis and treatment

ABSTRACT

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has resulted in a considerable increase in hospitalizations, leading to an increasing demand for accurate and efficient techniques for diagnosis. The CT-based diagnosis can provide pathologic information to assist treatment but be restricted due to inefficient and relatively complicated implementation. With the advent of deep learning and advanced hardware, an AI-assisted method diagnosis and segmentation for COVID-19 are proposed. In this paper, many traditional machine learning methods for imaging classification and segmentation are discussed, such as k-Nearest Neighbours (KNN), support vector machines (SVM), edge-based or region-based segmentation. In addition, we proposed a ResNet-based model and an improved U-Net for medical tasks of classification and segmentation, respectively. Our proposed model achieved desirable accuracy in medical applications. © 2023 SPIE.