Title
Automated Quantification of Inflamed Lung Regions in Chest CT by UNet++ and SegCaps: A Comparative Analysis in COVID-19 Cases.
Abstract
During the current COVID-19 pandemic, a high volume of lung imaging has been generated in the aid of the treating clinician. Importantly, lung inflammation severity, associated with the disease outcome, needs to be precisely quantified. Producing consistent and accurate reporting in high-demand scenarios can be a challenge that can compromise patient care with significant inter- or intra-observer variability in quantifying lung inflammation in a chest CT scan. In this backdrop, automated segmentation has recently been attempted using UNet++, a convolutional neural network (CNN), and results comparable to manual methods have been reported. In this paper, we hypothesize that the desired task can be performed with comparable efficiency using capsule networks with fewer parameters that make use of an advanced vector representation of information and dynamic routing. In this paper, we validate this hypothesis using SegCaps, a capsule network, by direct comparison, individual comparison with CT severity score, and comparing the relative effect on a ML(machine learning)-based prognosis model developed elsewhere. We further provide a scenario, where a combination of UNet++ and SegCaps achieves improved performance compared to individual models.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1109/EMBC48229.2022.9870901
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC)
DocType
Volume
ISSN
Conference
2022
2694-0604
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Priya Bhatia100.34
Abhishar Sinha200.34
Swati Purohit Joshi300.34
Rahuldeb Sarkar400.68
Rajesh Ghosh500.34
Soumya Jana600.34