Medical Image Analysis,
Journal Year:
2022,
Volume and Issue:
84, P. 102722 - 102722
Published: Dec. 15, 2022
Coronavirus
disease
(COVID-19)
has
caused
a
worldwide
pandemic,
putting
millions
of
people's
health
and
lives
in
jeopardy.
Detecting
infected
patients
early
on
chest
computed
tomography
(CT)
is
critical
combating
COVID-19.
Harnessing
uncertainty-aware
consensus-assisted
multiple
instance
learning
(UC-MIL),
we
propose
to
diagnose
COVID-19
using
new
bilateral
adaptive
graph-based
(BA-GCN)
model
that
can
use
both
2D
3D
discriminative
information
CT
volumes
with
arbitrary
number
slices.
Given
the
importance
lung
segmentation
for
this
task,
have
created
largest
manual
annotation
dataset
so
far
7,768
slices
from
patients,
used
it
train
segment
lungs
individual
mask
as
regions
interest
subsequent
analyses.
We
then
UC-MIL
estimate
uncertainty
each
prediction
consensus
between
predictions
slice
automatically
select
fixed
reliable
reasoning.
Finally,
adaptively
constructed
BA-GCN
vertices
different
granularity
levels
(2D
3D)
aggregate
multi-level
features
final
diagnosis
benefits
graph
convolution
network's
superiority
tackle
cross-granularity
relationships.
Experimental
results
three
datasets
demonstrated
our
produce
accurate
any
slices,
which
outperforms
existing
approaches
terms
generalisation
ability.
To
promote
reproducible
research,
made
datasets,
including
annotations
cleaned
dataset,
well
implementation
code,
available
at
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6361963.
Computers in Biology and Medicine,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
154, P. 106625 - 106625
Published: Feb. 2, 2023
The
COVID-19
pandemic
has
caused
millions
of
cases
and
deaths
the
AI-related
scientific
community,
after
being
involved
with
detecting
signs
in
medical
images,
been
now
directing
efforts
towards
development
methods
that
can
predict
progression
disease.
This
task
is
multimodal
by
its
very
nature
and,
recently,
baseline
results
achieved
on
publicly
available
AIforCOVID
dataset
have
shown
chest
X-ray
scans
clinical
information
are
useful
to
identify
patients
at
risk
severe
outcomes.
While
deep
learning
superior
performance
several
fields,
most
it
considers
unimodal
data
only.
In
this
respect,
when,
which
how
fuse
different
modalities
an
open
challenge
learning.
To
cope
these
three
questions
here
we
present
a
novel
approach
optimizing
setup
end-to-end
model.
It
exploits
Pareto
multi-objective
optimization
working
metric
diversity
score
multiple
candidate
neural
networks
be
fused.
We
test
our
method
dataset,
attaining
state-of-the-art
results,
not
only
outperforming
but
also
robust
external
validation.
Moreover,
exploiting
XAI
algorithms
figure
out
hierarchy
among
extract
features'
intra-modality
importance,
enriching
trust
predictions
made
Reviews in Medical Virology,
Journal Year:
2020,
Volume and Issue:
31(4)
Published: Nov. 20, 2020
Summary
Currently
severe
acute
respiratory
syndrome
coronavirus
2
(SARS‐CoV‐2)
transmission
has
been
on
the
rise
worldwide.
Predicting
outcome
in
COVID‐19
remains
challenging,
and
search
for
more
robust
predictors
continues.
We
made
a
systematic
meta‐analysis
current
literature
from
1
January
2020
to
15
August
that
independently
evaluated
32
circulatory
immunological
signatures
were
compared
between
patients
with
different
disease
severity
was
made.
Their
roles
as
of
determined
well.
A
total
149
distinct
studies
ten
cytokines,
four
antibodies,
T
cells,
B
NK
neutrophils,
monocytes,
eosinophils
basophils
included.
Compared
non‐severe
COVID‐19,
serum
levels
Interleukins
(IL)‐2,
IL‐2R,
IL‐4,
IL‐6,
IL‐8,
IL‐10
tumor
necrosis
factor
α
significantly
up‐regulated
patients,
largest
inter‐group
differences
observed
IL‐6
IL‐10.
In
contrast,
IL‐5,
IL‐1β
Interferon
(IFN)‐γ
did
not
show
significant
difference.
Four
mediators
cells
count,
including
CD3
+
T,
CD4
CD8
CD25
CD127
‐
Treg,
together
CD19
count
CD16
CD56
all
consistently
depressed
group
than
group.
SARS‐CoV‐2
specific
IgA
IgG
antibodies
higher
group,
while
IgM
antibody
slightly
lower
those
IgE
showed
no
differences.
The
combination
especially
IL‐10,
cell
related
immune
can
be
used
biomarkers
predict
following
infection.
Medical Image Analysis,
Journal Year:
2022,
Volume and Issue:
84, P. 102722 - 102722
Published: Dec. 15, 2022
Coronavirus
disease
(COVID-19)
has
caused
a
worldwide
pandemic,
putting
millions
of
people's
health
and
lives
in
jeopardy.
Detecting
infected
patients
early
on
chest
computed
tomography
(CT)
is
critical
combating
COVID-19.
Harnessing
uncertainty-aware
consensus-assisted
multiple
instance
learning
(UC-MIL),
we
propose
to
diagnose
COVID-19
using
new
bilateral
adaptive
graph-based
(BA-GCN)
model
that
can
use
both
2D
3D
discriminative
information
CT
volumes
with
arbitrary
number
slices.
Given
the
importance
lung
segmentation
for
this
task,
have
created
largest
manual
annotation
dataset
so
far
7,768
slices
from
patients,
used
it
train
segment
lungs
individual
mask
as
regions
interest
subsequent
analyses.
We
then
UC-MIL
estimate
uncertainty
each
prediction
consensus
between
predictions
slice
automatically
select
fixed
reliable
reasoning.
Finally,
adaptively
constructed
BA-GCN
vertices
different
granularity
levels
(2D
3D)
aggregate
multi-level
features
final
diagnosis
benefits
graph
convolution
network's
superiority
tackle
cross-granularity
relationships.
Experimental
results
three
datasets
demonstrated
our
produce
accurate
any
slices,
which
outperforms
existing
approaches
terms
generalisation
ability.
To
promote
reproducible
research,
made
datasets,
including
annotations
cleaned
dataset,
well
implementation
code,
available
at
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6361963.