COVID-19 Diagnostic System Using Medical Image Classification and Retrieval: A Novel Method for Image Analysis. (19th May 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Alrahhal, Maher; K P, Supreethi
• Is Part Of: Computer journal. Volume 65:Number 8(2022)
• Page Start: 2146
• Page End: 2163
• Publication Date: 2021-05-19
• Subjects: medical Image Analysis -- image classification and retrieval -- deep learning -- Histogram of Oriented Gradient -- Bag of Visual Word -- Adaptive Boosting classifier -- COVID-19; Computers -- Periodicals; 005.1
• DOI: 10.1093/comjnl/bxab051
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0010-4620

Abstract

Abstract: With the rapid increase in the number of people infected with COVID-19 disease in the entire world, and with the limited medical equipment used to detect it (testing kit), it becomes necessary to provide another detection method that mainly relies on Artificial Intelligence and radiographic Image Analysis to determine the disease infection. In this study, we proposed a diagnosis system that detects the COVID-19 using chest X-ray or computed tomography (CT) scan images knowing that this system does not eliminate the reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction test but rather complements it. The proposed system consists of the following steps, starting with extracting the image's features using Visual Words Fusion of ResNet-50 (deep neural network) and Histogram of Oriented Gradient descriptors based on Bag of Visual Word methodology. Then training the Adaptive Boosting classifier to classify the image to COVID-19 or NOTCOVID-19 and finally retrieving the most similar images. We implemented our work on X-ray and CT scan databases, and the experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed system. The performance of the classification task in terms of accuracy was as follows: 100% for classifying the input image to X-ray or CT scan, 99.18% for classifying X-ray image to COVID-19 or NOTCOVID-19 and 97.84% for classifying CT scan to COVID-19 or NOTCOVID-19.