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Attention-CNN Model for COVID-19 Diagnosis Using Chest CT Images

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Deep learning assisted disease diagnosis using chest radiology images to assess severity of various respiratory conditions has garnered a lot of attention after the recent COVID-19 pandemic. Understanding characteristic features associated with the disease in radiology images, along with variations observed from patient-to-patient and with the progression of disease, is important while building such models. In this work, we carried out comparative analysis of various deep architectures with the proposed attention-based Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) model with customized bottleneck residual module (Attn-CNN) in classifying chest CT images into three categories, COVID-19, Normal, and Pneumonia. We show that the attention model with fewer parameters achieved better classification performance compared to state-of-the-art deep architectures such as EfficientNet-B7, Inceptionv3, ResNet-50 and VGG-16, and customized models proposed in similar studies such as COVIDNet-CT, CTnet-10, COVID-19Net, etc.

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Suba, S., Parekh, N. (2023). Attention-CNN Model for COVID-19 Diagnosis Using Chest CT Images. In: Maji, P., Huang, T., Pal, N.R., Chaudhury, S., De, R.K. (eds) Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence. PReMI 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14301. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-45170-6_43

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