Diagnostics,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
13(6), P. 1107 - 1107
Published: March 15, 2023
Background:
This
study
evaluated
the
temporal
characteristics
of
lung
chest
X-ray
(CXR)
scores
in
COVID-19
patients
during
hospitalization
and
how
they
relate
to
other
clinical
variables
outcomes
(alive
or
dead).
Methods:
is
a
retrospective
patients.
CXR
disease
severity
were
analyzed
for:
(i)
survivors
(N
=
224)
versus
non-survivors
28)
general
floor
group,
(ii)
92)
56)
invasive
mechanical
ventilation
(IMV)
group.
Unpaired
t-tests
used
compare
between
time
points.
Comparison
across
multiple
points
repeated
measures
ANOVA
corrected
for
comparisons.
Results:
For
general-floor
patients,
non-survivor
significantly
worse
at
admission
compared
those
(p
<
0.05),
deteriorated
outcome
0.05)
whereas
survivor
did
not
>
0.05).
IMV
similar
intubation
both
improved
with
showing
greater
improvement
Hospitalization
duration
different
groups
correlated
lactate
dehydrogenase,
respiratory
rate,
D-dimer,
C-reactive
protein,
procalcitonin,
ferritin,
SpO2,
lymphocyte
count
Conclusions:
Longitudinal
have
potential
provide
prognosis,
guide
treatment,
monitor
progression.
Computer Systems Science and Engineering,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
47(2), P. 1507 - 1525
Published: Jan. 1, 2023
Black
fungus
is
a
rare
and
dangerous
mycology
that
usually
affects
the
brain
lungs
could
be
life-threatening
in
diabetic
cases.
Recently,
some
COVID-19
survivors,
especially
those
with
co-morbid
diseases,
have
been
susceptible
to
black
fungus.
Therefore,
recovered
patients
should
seek
medical
support
when
they
notice
mucormycosis
symptoms.
This
paper
proposes
novel
ensemble
deep-learning
model
includes
three
pre-trained
models:
reset
(50),
VGG
(19),
Inception.
Our
approach
medically
intuitive
efficient
compared
traditional
deep
learning
models.
An
image
dataset
was
aggregated
from
various
resources
divided
into
two
classes:
class
skin
infection
class.
To
best
of
our
knowledge,
study
first
concerned
building
detection
models
based
on
algorithms.
The
proposed
can
significantly
improve
performance
classification
task
increase
generalization
ability
such
binary
task.
According
reported
results,
it
has
empirically
achieved
sensitivity
value
0.9907,
specificity
0.9938,
precision
negative
predictive
0.9907.
Neural Computing and Applications,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
36(6), P. 3215 - 3237
Published: Dec. 4, 2023
Abstract
Medical
image
analysis
using
multiple
modalities
refers
to
the
process
of
analyzing
and
extracting
information
from
more
than
one
type
in
order
gain
a
comprehensive
understanding
given
subject.
To
maximize
potential
multimodal
data
improving
enhancing
our
disease,
sophisticated
classification
techniques
must
be
developed
as
part
integration
classify
meaningful
different
types
data.
A
pre-trained
model,
such
those
trained
on
large
datasets
ImageNet,
has
learned
rich
representations
that
can
used
for
various
downstream
tasks.
Fine-tuning
model
further
developing
knowledge
gained
pre-existing
dataset.
In
comparison
training
scratch,
fine-tuning
allows
transferred
target
task,
thus
performance
efficiency.
evolutionary
search,
genetic
algorithm
(GA)
is
an
emulates
natural
selection
genetics.
this
context,
population
candidate
solutions
generated,
fitness
evaluated
new
are
generated
by
applying
operations
mutation
crossover.
Considering
above
characteristics,
present
study
presents
efficient
architecture
called
Selective-COVIDNet
COVID-19
cases
novel
selective
layer-pruning
algorithm.
detect
data,
current
will
use
fine-tune
models
adjusting
specific
layers
selectively.
Furthermore,
proposed
approach
provides
flexibility
depth
two
deep
learning
architectures,
VGG-16
MobileNet-V2.
The
impact
freezing
was
assessed
five
strategies,
namely
Random,
Odd,
Even,
Half,
Full
Freezing.
Therefore,
existing
enhanced
Covid-19
tasks
while
minimizing
their
computational
burden.
For
evaluating
effectiveness
framework,
multi-modal
standard
used,
including
CT-scan
images
electrocardiogram
(ECG)
recordings
individuals
with
COVID-19.
From
conducted
experiments,
it
found
framework
effectively
accuracy
98.48%
MobileNet-V2
99.65%
VGG-16.
Biomedical Signal Processing and Control,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
87, P. 105424 - 105424
Published: Sept. 19, 2023
Wearable
systems
measuring
human
physiological
indicators
with
integrated
sensors
and
supervised
learning-based
medical
image
analysis
(e.g.
ECG,
X-ray,
CT
or
ultrasound
images
for
lung
the
chest)
have
been
considered
relevant
tools
COVID-19
monitoring
diagnosis.
However,
these
two
technical
roadmaps
their
respective
advantages
drawbacks.
The
current
wearable
enable
to
realize
real-time
of
but
are
limited
its
basic
symptoms
only,
neither
allowing
distinguish
it
from
other
diseases
nor
performing
deep
analysis.
Current
can
provide
accurate
decision
support
diagnosis
rarely
deals
data
processing.
In
this
context,
we
propose
a
new
system
by
combining
roadmaps.
Considering
that
electrocardiogram
(ECG)
has
proved
evolution
symptoms,
proposed
will
integrate
an
explainable
Deep
Neural
Network
online
gravity
using
ECG
beat
signal.
This
paper
focus
on
model
named
X-RCRNet.
network
is
based
ResNet18
few
enhancements:
1)
LSTM
Layers
regenerating
backpropagation
error
further
extracting
involved
time-varying
features;
2)
LeakyReLU
increasing
performances
model.
With
accuracy
96.48
%
after
experiments,
our
not
only
outperformed
existing
methods
in
terms
robustness,
also
originally
identify
ST
interval
pattern,
as
most
prominent
key
features
affected
virus.
Diagnostics,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
13(6), P. 1107 - 1107
Published: March 15, 2023
Background:
This
study
evaluated
the
temporal
characteristics
of
lung
chest
X-ray
(CXR)
scores
in
COVID-19
patients
during
hospitalization
and
how
they
relate
to
other
clinical
variables
outcomes
(alive
or
dead).
Methods:
is
a
retrospective
patients.
CXR
disease
severity
were
analyzed
for:
(i)
survivors
(N
=
224)
versus
non-survivors
28)
general
floor
group,
(ii)
92)
56)
invasive
mechanical
ventilation
(IMV)
group.
Unpaired
t-tests
used
compare
between
time
points.
Comparison
across
multiple
points
repeated
measures
ANOVA
corrected
for
comparisons.
Results:
For
general-floor
patients,
non-survivor
significantly
worse
at
admission
compared
those
(p
<
0.05),
deteriorated
outcome
0.05)
whereas
survivor
did
not
>
0.05).
IMV
similar
intubation
both
improved
with
showing
greater
improvement
Hospitalization
duration
different
groups
correlated
lactate
dehydrogenase,
respiratory
rate,
D-dimer,
C-reactive
protein,
procalcitonin,
ferritin,
SpO2,
lymphocyte
count
Conclusions:
Longitudinal
have
potential
provide
prognosis,
guide
treatment,
monitor
progression.