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[论文解读] Stacked Convolutional Neural Network for Diagnosis of COVID-19 Disease from X-ray Images

Mahesh Gour, Sweta Jain|arXiv (Cornell University)|Jun 22, 2020
COVID-19 diagnosis using AI参考文献 39被引用 34
一句话总结

本文提出一个堆叠式 CNN 集成模型(CovNet30 + VGG19 子模型),在 COVID-19 X 光数据集上训练,并与逻辑回归结合,以对 COVID-19、Normal 与 Pneumonia 进行高精度分类。

ABSTRACT

Automatic and rapid screening of COVID-19 from the chest X-ray images has become an urgent need in this pandemic situation of SARS-CoV-2 worldwide in 2020. However, accurate and reliable screening of patients is a massive challenge due to the discrepancy between COVID-19 and other viral pneumonia in X-ray images. In this paper, we design a new stacked convolutional neural network model for the automatic diagnosis of COVID-19 disease from the chest X-ray images. We obtain different sub-models from the VGG19 and developed a 30-layered CNN model (named as CovNet30) during the training, and obtained sub-models are stacked together using logistic regression. The proposed CNN model combines the discriminating power of the different CNN`s sub-models and classifies chest X-ray images into COVID-19, Normal, and Pneumonia classes. In addition, we generate X-ray images dataset referred to as COVID19CXr, which includes 2764 chest x-ray images of 1768 patients from the three publicly available data repositories. The proposed stacked CNN achieves an accuracy of 92.74%, the sensitivity of 93.33%, PPV of 92.13%, and F1-score of 0.93 for the classification of X-ray images. Our proposed approach shows its superiority over the existing methods for the diagnosis of the COVID-19 from the X-ray images.

研究动机与目标

  • 开发一个自动化的 CAD 系统,用于从胸部 X 光图像中区分 COVID-19、Normal 和 Pneumonia。
  • 从公开来源创建和整理一个 COVID-19 X 射线数据集(COVID19CXr)。
  • 设计一个堆叠式 CNN 框架,以利用多样化的子模型来提升诊断性能。

提出的方法

  • 构建 CovNet30,一个从头开始在 X 光数据上训练的 30 层 CNN。
  • 在 X 射线数据集上对一个预训练的 VGG19 模型进行微调。
  • 在训练过程中从 CovNet30 和 VGG19 生成五个子模型。
  • 使用逻辑回归对子模型预测进行堆叠,以形成最终的堆叠分类器。
  • 使用 5 折交叉验证进行评估,指标包括准确率、灵敏度、特异性、PPV、F1 和 AUC。

实验结果

研究问题

  • RQ1堆叠式 CNN 集成是否能在胸部 X 光上相较于单独模型提高多类(COVID-19、Normal、Pneumonia)的诊断准确性?
  • RQ2在 COVID19CXr 数据集上,堆叠模型的诊断性能(灵敏度、特异性、准确率、PPV、F1、AUC)是多少?
  • RQ3所提出的方法与独立的 CovNet30 和 VGG19 模型相比如何?
  • RQ4在不同折之间,模型是否对类别不均衡和 COVID-19 样本量较小具有鲁棒性?

主要发现

FoldSensitivity (%)Specificity (%)Accuracy (%)Err ± CI (%)PPV (%)F1-ScoreAUC ± CI
Fold195.598.1996.943.06 ± 1.4297.690.970.989 ± 0.003
Fold292.6694.9791.448.56 ± 2.3991.320.920.982 ± 0.015
Fold391.4595.0191.348.66 ± 2.3592.130.920.982 ± 0.011
Fold492.4794.7790.229.78 ± 2.4885.970.880.977 ± 0.023
Fold594.5996.1293.746.26 ± 2.0293.540.940.981 ± 0.009
  • 在 5 折中平均准确率为 92.74%。
  • 平均灵敏度为 93.33%,平均特异性为 95.81%。
  • 平均 PPV 为 92.13–92.74%,F1 分数为 0.93。
  • COVID-19 类的平均 AUC 为 0.994,含置信区间;总体平均 AUC 为 0.984。
  • 堆叠式 CNN 的表现优于 CovNet30 和 VGG19 的独立模型。
  • 各子模型在不同折中的表现各不相同,而堆叠模型取得了最佳结果。

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