학술논문

Automatic segmentation of lung findings in CT and application to Long COVID
Document Type
Working Paper
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Subject
Electrical Engineering and Systems Science - Image and Video Processing
Computer Science - Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
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Abstract
Automated segmentation of lung abnormalities in computed tomography is an important step for diagnosing and characterizing lung disease. In this work, we improve upon a previous method and propose S-MEDSeg, a deep learning based approach for accurate segmentation of lung lesions in chest CT images. S-MEDSeg combines a pre-trained EfficientNet backbone, bidirectional feature pyramid network, and modern network advancements to achieve improved segmentation performance. A comprehensive ablation study was performed to evaluate the contribution of the proposed network modifications. The results demonstrate modifications introduced in S-MEDSeg significantly improves segmentation performance compared to the baseline approach. The proposed method is applied to an independent dataset of long COVID inpatients to study the effect of post-acute infection vaccination on extent of lung findings. Open-source code, graphical user interface and pip package are available at https://github.com/MICLab-Unicamp/medseg.
Comment: Versao em portugu\^es brasileiro submetida para o XV EADCA 2023. Brazilian portuguese verson submitted to XV EADCA 2023