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COVID-19 Lung Lesion Segmentation Using a Sparsely Supervised Mask R-CNN on Chest X-rays Automatically Computed from Volumetric CTs
Vignav Ramesh, Blaine Rister, Daniel L. Rubin
Chest X-rays of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients are frequently obtained to determine the extent of lung disease and are a valuable source of data for creating artificial intelligence models. Most work to date assessing disease severity on chest imaging has focused on segmenting computed tomography (CT) images; however, given that CTs are performed much less frequently than chest X-rays for COVID-19 patients, automated lung lesion segmentation on chest X-rays could be clinically valuable. There currently exists a universal shortage of chest X-rays with ground truth COVID-19 lung lesion annotations, and manually contouring lung opacities is a tedious, labor-intensive task. To accelerate severity detection and augment the amount of publicly available chest X-ray training data for supervised deep learning (DL) models, we leverage existing annotated CT images to generate frontal projection "chest X-ray" images for training COVID-19 chest X-ray models. In this paper, we propose an automated pipeline for segmentation of COVID-19 lung lesions on chest X-rays comprised of a Mask R-CNN trained on a mixed dataset of open-source chest X-rays and coronal X-ray projections computed from annotated volumetric CTs. On a test set containing 40 chest X-rays of COVID-19 positive patients, our model achieved IoU scores of 0.81 ± 0.03 and 0.79 ± 0.03 when trained on a dataset of 60 chest X-rays and on a mixed dataset of 10 chest X-rays and 50 projections from CTs, respectively. Our model far outperforms current baselines with limited supervised training and may assist in automated COVID-19 severity quantification on chest X-rays.
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