Abstract
COVID-19 is a highly contagious disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Due to its high impact on society, several efforts have been made to design practical ways to support COVID-19 diagnosis. In this context, automated solutions based on chest x-rays (CXR) images and deep learning are among the popular ones. Although these techniques achieved exciting results in the literature, the use of regions that do not support pneumonia diagnosis, i.e., regions outside the lung area, may bias the recognition model. A strategy to avoid this issue is to use segmentation techniques to isolate the lung area before the classification process. In this work, we investigate the impact of three CNN segmentation architectures on COVID-19 identification: U-Net, MultiResUnet, and BCDU-NET. We also investigate which portions of the CXR most influence each model’s predictions, using Explainable Artificial Intelligence. The BCDU-NET architecture achieved a Jaccard Index of 0.91 and a Dice Coefficient of 0.95. In the best scenario, lung segmentation improved the COVID-19 identification F1-Score by about 6.6%.
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This research has been partly supported by the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) grant 312672/2020-9 for the financial support.
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Batista, A.R., Bertolini, D., Costa, Y.M.G., Pereira, L.F.M., Pereira, R.M., Teixeira, L.O. (2021). An Evaluation of Segmentation Techniques for Covid-19 Identification in Chest X-Ray. In: Tavares, J.M.R.S., Papa, J.P., González Hidalgo, M. (eds) Progress in Pattern Recognition, Image Analysis, Computer Vision, and Applications. CIARP 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12702. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-93420-0_5
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