Abstract
Covid-19 is a serious disease caused by the Sars-CoV-2 virus that has been first reported in China at late 2019 and has rapidly spread around the world. As the virus affects mostly the lungs, chest X-rays are one of the safest and most accessible ways of diagnosing the infection. In this paper, we propose the use of an approach for detecting Covid-19 in chest X-ray images through the extraction and classification of local and global percolation-based features. The method was applied in two datasets: one containing 2,002 segmented samples split into two classes (Covid-19 and Healthy); and another containing 1,125 non-segmented samples split into three classes (Covid-19, Healthy and Pneumonia). The 48 obtained percolation features were given as input to six different classifiers and then AUC and accuracy values were evaluated. We employed the 10-fold cross-validation method and evaluated the lesion sub-types with binary and multiclass classification using the Hermite Polynomial classifier, which had never been employed in this context. This classifier provided the best overall results when compared to other five machine learning algorithms. These results based in the association of percolation features and Hermite polynomial can contribute to the detection of the lesions by supporting specialists in clinical practices.
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This study was financed in part by the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - Brasil (CAPES) - Finance Code 001, National Council for Scientific and Technological Development CNPq (Grants #132940/2019-1, #313643/2021-0 and #311404/2021-9), the State of Minas Gerais Research Foundation - FAPEMIG (Grants #APQ-00578-18 and #APQ-01129-21), the State of São Paulo Research Foundation - FAPESP (Grant #2022/03020-1). and the project NextGenAI - Center for Responsible AI (2022-C05i0102-02), supported by IAPMEI, and also by FCT plurianual funding for 2020-2023 of LIACC (UIDB/00027/2020 UIDP/00027/2020).
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F. Roberto, G. et al. (2024). Detection of Covid-19 in Chest X-Ray Images Using Percolation Features and Hermite Polynomial Classification. In: Vasconcelos, V., Domingues, I., Paredes, S. (eds) Progress in Pattern Recognition, Image Analysis, Computer Vision, and Applications. CIARP 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14469. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-49018-7_12
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