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COVID19 to Pneumonia: Multi Region Lung Severity Classification Using CNN Transformer Position-Aware Feature Encoding Network

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This study investigates utilizing chest X-ray (CXR) data from COVID-19 patients for classifying pneumonia severity, aiming to enhance prediction accuracy in COVID-19 datasets and achieve robust classification across diverse pneumonia cases. A novel CNN-Transformer hybrid network has been developed, leveraging position-aware features and Region Shared MLPs for integrating lung region information. This improves adaptability to different spatial resolutions and scores, addressing the subjectivity of severity assessment due to unclear clinical measurements. The model shows significant improvement in pneumonia severity classification for both COVID-19 and heterogeneous pneumonia datasets. Its adaptable structure allows seamless integration with various backbone models, leading to continuous performance improvement and potential clinical applications, particularly in intensive care units.

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This work was supported by Institute of Information & communications Technology Planning & Evaluation (IITP) grant funded by the Korea government(MSIT) [No. 2022-0-00641, XVoice: Multi-Modal Voice Meta Learning], [No. RS-2022-00155915, Artificial Intelligence Convergence Innovation Human Resources Development (Inha University)], the National Research Foundation of Korea(NRF) grant funded by the Korea government(MSIT) (No. NRF-2022R1F1A1071574).

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Lee, J.B., Kim, J.S., Lee, H.G. (2024). COVID19 to Pneumonia: Multi Region Lung Severity Classification Using CNN Transformer Position-Aware Feature Encoding Network. In: Linguraru, M.G., et al. Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2024. MICCAI 2024. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 15001. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-72378-0_44

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