Paper ID: 2205.02152

Evaluating Transferability for Covid 3D Localization Using CT SARS-CoV-2 segmentation models

Constantine Maganaris, Eftychios Protopapadakis, Nikolaos Bakalos, Nikolaos Doulamis, Dimitris Kalogeras, Aikaterini Angeli

Recent studies indicate that detecting radiographic patterns on CT scans can yield high sensitivity and specificity for Covid-19 localization. In this paper, we investigate the appropriateness of deep learning models transferability, for semantic segmentation of pneumonia-infected areas in CT images. Transfer learning allows for the fast initialization/reutilization of detection models, given that large volumes of training data are not available. Our work explores the efficacy of using pre-trained U-Net architectures, on a specific CT data set, for identifying Covid-19 side-effects over images from different datasets. Experimental results indicate improvement in the segmentation accuracy of identifying Covid-19 infected regions.

Submitted: May 4, 2022