DPN-SENet:A self-attention mechanism neural network for detection and diagnosis of COVID-19 from chest x-ray images

05/20/2021
by   Bo Cheng, et al.
21

Background and Objective: The new type of coronavirus is also called COVID-19. It began to spread at the end of 2019 and has now spread across the world. Until October 2020, It has infected around 37 million people and claimed about 1 million lives. We propose a deep learning model that can help radiologists and clinicians use chest X-rays to diagnose COVID-19 cases and show the diagnostic features of pneumonia. Methods: The approach in this study is: 1) we propose a data enhancement method to increase the diversity of the data set, thereby improving the generalization performance of the model. 2) Our deep convolution neural network model DPN-SE adds a self-attention mechanism to the DPN network. The addition of a self-attention mechanism has greatly improved the performance of the network. 3) Use the Lime interpretable library to mark the feature regions on the X-ray medical image that helps doctors more quickly diagnose COVID-19 in people. Results: Under the same network model, the data with and without data enhancement is put into the model for training respectively. At last, comparing two experimental results: among the 10 network models with different structures, 7 network models have improved their effects after using data enhancement, with an average improvement of 1 accuracy. We propose that the accuracy and recall rates of the DPN-SE network are 93 normal). Compared with the original DPN, the respective accuracy is improved by 2 results on a small amount of data set, showing that a reasonable data augmentation method can improve the recognition accuracy without changing the sample size and model structure. Overall, the proposed method and model can effectively become a very useful tool for clinical radiologists.

READ FULL TEXT

Please sign up or login with your details

Forgot password? Click here to reset
Success!
Error Icon An error occurred

Sign in with Google

×

Use your Google Account to sign in to DeepAI

×

Consider DeepAI Pro