An Attention Mechanism with Multiple Knowledge Sources for COVID-19 Detection from CT Images

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2009.11008v4
• Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2020 15:16:06 GMT
• Title: An Attention Mechanism with Multiple Knowledge Sources for COVID-19 Detection from CT Images
• Authors: Duy M. H. Nguyen, Duy M. Nguyen, Huong Vu, Binh T. Nguyen, Fabrizio Nunnari, Daniel Sonntag
• Abstract summary: We propose a novel strategy to improve the performance of several baselines by leveraging useful information sources relevant to doctors' judgments. Infected regions and heat maps extracted from learned networks are integrated with the global image via an attention mechanism during the learning process. This procedure not only makes our system more robust to noise but also guides the network focusing on local lesion areas.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Until now, Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 has caused more than 850,000 deaths and infected more than 27 million individuals in over 120 countries. Besides principal polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests, automatically identifying positive samples based on computed tomography (CT) scans can present a promising option in the early diagnosis of COVID-19. Recently, there have been increasing efforts to utilize deep networks for COVID-19 diagnosis based on CT scans. While these approaches mostly focus on introducing novel architectures, transfer learning techniques, or construction large scale data, we propose a novel strategy to improve the performance of several baselines by leveraging multiple useful information sources relevant to doctors' judgments. Specifically, infected regions and heat maps extracted from learned networks are integrated with the global image via an attention mechanism during the learning process. This procedure not only makes our system more robust to noise but also guides the network focusing on local lesion areas. Extensive experiments illustrate the superior performance of our approach compared to recent baselines. Furthermore, our learned network guidance presents an explainable feature to doctors as we can understand the connection between input and output in a grey-box model.

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