H3DNN: 3D Deep Learning Based Detection of COVID-19 Virus using Lungs Computed Tomography

Abstract

With the rapid spread of the novel COVID-19 virus, there is an increasing demand for screening COVID-19 patients. Typical methods for screening coronavirus patients have a large false detection rate. An effective and reliable screening method for detecting coronavirus is required. For this reason, some other reliable methods such as Computed Tomography (CT) imaging is employed to detect coronavirus accurately. In this paper, we present a 3D-Deep learning based method that automatically screens coronavirus patients using 3D volumetric CT image data. Our proposed system assists medical practitioners to effectively screen out COVID-19 patients. We performed extensive experiments on two datasets i.e., CC-19 and COVID-CT using various state-of-the-art 3D Deep learning based methods including 3D ResNets, C3D, 3D DenseNets, I3D, and LRCN. The results of the experiments show the competitive effectiveness of our proposed approach.