COVID-19 chest radiography employing via Deep Convolutional Stacked Autoencoders

Abstract

This paper applies AI (artificial intelligence) technology to analyze CT (chest radiography) data in an attempt to detect COVID-19 pneumonia symptoms. A new model structure is proposed with segmentation of anatomical structures on DNNs-based (deep learning neural network) methods, relying on an abundance of labeled data for proper training. The model improves the existing techniques used for CT images inspection through an application of Stacked Autoencoders (SAEs) structures using the segmentation function for the area object detection model on Fast-RCNN. As a result, the proposed approach can quickly analyze X-ray images in detecting abnormalities in patients with lab-confirmed coronavirus even before clinical symptoms appear. In addition to detecting early abnormalities, area object detection model reveals a finding not seen in the latest cases of COVID-19. Most noteworthy, the study has shown that all COVID-19 patients exhibit an associated bilateral pleural effusion. The features are augmented to the model for the improvement of detection quality improvement and the shorten of the examination period.