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OzNet: A New Deep Learning Approach for Automated Classification of COVID-19 Computed Tomography Scans




AuthorsOzaltin Oznur, Yeniay Ozgur, Subasi Abdulhamit

PublisherMARY ANN LIEBERT, INC

Publication year2023

JournalBig data

Journal name in sourceBIG DATA

Journal acronymBIG DATA

Number of pages17

ISSN2167-6461

eISSN2167-647X

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1089/big.2022.0042

Self-archived copy’s web addresshttps://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/179201144


Abstract
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is spreading rapidly around the world. Therefore, the classification of computed tomography (CT) scans alleviates the workload of experts, whose workload increased considerably during the pandemic. Convolutional neural network (CNN) architectures are successful for the classification of medical images. In this study, we have developed a new deep CNN architecture called OzNet. Moreover, we have compared it with pretrained architectures namely AlexNet, DenseNet201, GoogleNet, NASNetMobile, ResNet-50, SqueezeNet, and VGG-16. In addition, we have compared the classification success of three preprocessing methods with raw CT scans. We have not only classified the raw CT scans, but also have performed the classification with three different preprocessing methods, which are discrete wavelet transform (DWT), intensity adjustment, and gray to color red, green, blue image conversion on the data sets. Furthermore, it is known that the architecture's performance increases with the use of DWT preprocessing method rather than using the raw data set. The results are extremely promising with the CNN algorithms using the COVID-19 CT scans processed with the DWT. The proposed DWT-OzNet has achieved a high classification performance of more than 98.8% for each calculated metric.

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