TY - JOUR
T1 - Novel ensemble of optimized CNN and dynamic selection techniques for accurate Covid-19 screening using chest CT images
AU - Pathan, Sameena
AU - Siddalingaswamy, P. C.
AU - Kumar, Preetham
AU - Pai M M, Manohara
AU - Ali, Tanweer
AU - Acharya, U. Rajendra
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2021/10
Y1 - 2021/10
N2 - The world is significantly affected by infectious coronavirus disease (covid-19). Timely prognosis and treatment are important to control the spread of this infection. Unreliable screening systems and limited number of clinical facilities are the major hurdles in controlling the spread of covid-19. Nowadays, many automated detection systems based on deep learning techniques using computed tomography (CT) images have been proposed to detect covid-19. However, these systems have the following drawbacks: (i) limited data problem poses a major hindrance to train the deep neural network model to provide accurate diagnosis, (ii) random choice of hyperparameters of Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) significantly affects the classification performance, since the hyperparameters have to be application dependent and, (iii) the generalization ability using CNN classification is usually not validated. To address the aforementioned issues, we propose two models: (i) based on a transfer learning approach, and (ii) using novel strategy to optimize the CNN hyperparameters using Whale optimization-based BAT algorithm + AdaBoost classifier built using dynamic ensemble selection techniques. According to our second method depending on the characteristics of test sample, the classifier is chosen, thereby reducing the risk of overfitting and simultaneously produced promising results. Our proposed methodologies are developed using 746 CT images. Our method obtained a sensitivity, specificity, accuracy, F-1 score, and precision of 0.98, 0.97, 0.98, 0.98, and 0.98, respectively with five-fold cross-validation strategy. Our developed prototype is ready to be tested with huge chest CT images database before its real-world application.
AB - The world is significantly affected by infectious coronavirus disease (covid-19). Timely prognosis and treatment are important to control the spread of this infection. Unreliable screening systems and limited number of clinical facilities are the major hurdles in controlling the spread of covid-19. Nowadays, many automated detection systems based on deep learning techniques using computed tomography (CT) images have been proposed to detect covid-19. However, these systems have the following drawbacks: (i) limited data problem poses a major hindrance to train the deep neural network model to provide accurate diagnosis, (ii) random choice of hyperparameters of Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) significantly affects the classification performance, since the hyperparameters have to be application dependent and, (iii) the generalization ability using CNN classification is usually not validated. To address the aforementioned issues, we propose two models: (i) based on a transfer learning approach, and (ii) using novel strategy to optimize the CNN hyperparameters using Whale optimization-based BAT algorithm + AdaBoost classifier built using dynamic ensemble selection techniques. According to our second method depending on the characteristics of test sample, the classifier is chosen, thereby reducing the risk of overfitting and simultaneously produced promising results. Our proposed methodologies are developed using 746 CT images. Our method obtained a sensitivity, specificity, accuracy, F-1 score, and precision of 0.98, 0.97, 0.98, 0.98, and 0.98, respectively with five-fold cross-validation strategy. Our developed prototype is ready to be tested with huge chest CT images database before its real-world application.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2021.104835
DO - 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2021.104835
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85114384700
SN - 0010-4825
VL - 137
JO - Computers in Biology and Medicine
JF - Computers in Biology and Medicine
M1 - 104835
ER -