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A review of medical image-based diagnosis of COVID-19

Jie Yu, Shiju Yan, Chengli Song, Haipo Cui


School of Health Science and Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200093, China.


Address correspondence to: Shiju Yan, School of Health Science and Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, No.516, Jungong Road, Yangpu District, Shanghai 200093, China. Tel: 18217617984. E-mail: yanshiju@usst.edu.cn. 


Received March 11, 2023; Accepted November 17, 2023; Published December 31, 2023


DOI: https://doi.org/10.61189/323428onxlas


Highlights

● Current research on COVID-19 utilizing medical images is categorized into image preprocessing, segmentation, and classification.

● This study provides an in-depth analysis of these categories, as well as provides an outlook on the application and possible future development directions of medical image processing in COVID-19 management.

● Our paper also presents a review of various publicly accessible datasets of COVID-19.

Abstract

The pandemic virus COVID-19 has caused hundreds of millions of infections and deaths, resulting in enormous social and economic losses worldwide. As the virus strains continue to evolve, their ability to spread increases. The detection by reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction is time-consuming and less sensitive. As a result, X-ray images and computed tomography images started to be used in the diagnosis of COVID-19. Since the global outbreak, medical image processing researchers have proposed several automated diagnostic models in the hope of helping radiologists and improving diagnostic accuracy. This paper provides a systematic review of these diagnostic models from three aspects: image preprocessing, image segmentation, and classification, including the common problems and feasible solutions that encountered in each category. Furthermore, commonly used public COVID-19 datasets are reviewed. Finally, future research directions for medical image processing in managing COVID-19 are proposed.

Keywords: Medical image processing, medical image segmentation, diagnosis, preprocessing, COVID-19 dataset

Yu J, Yan SJ, Song CL, et al. A review of medical image-based diagnosis of COVID-19. Prog in Med Devices. 2023 Dec;1(3): 131-144. doi:10.61189/323428onxlas. 

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