Title
COVID-19 lung infection segmentation with a novel two-stage cross-domain transfer learning framework
Abstract
•We propose a novel two-stage transfer learning framework for segmenting COVID-19 lung infections from CT images. Our framework learns valuable knowledge from both natural images and CT images with pulmonary nodules, allowing more effective network training for improved performance.•We propose an effective infection segmentation network, called nCoVSegNet, which takes advantage of attention-aware feature fusion and large reception fields for accurate segmentation of lung infections.•Extensive experiments on two COVID-19 CT datasets demonstrate that our framework is able to segment lung infections accurately and outperforms state-of-the-art methods remarkably.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1016/j.media.2021.102205
Medical Image Analysis
Keywords
DocType
Volume
COVID-19,Lung infection segmentation,Transfer learning,Computed tomography
Journal
74
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1361-8415
2
0.53
References 
Authors
21
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jiannan Liu120.53
Bo Dong224329.31
Shuai Wang320.53
Hui Cui478.76
Deng-Ping Fan5511.98
Jiquan Ma622.22
Geng Chen77316.95