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Automated assessment of COVID-19 pulmonary disease severity on chest radiographs using convolutional Siamese neural networks

2020-05-26 radiology and imaging Title + abstract only
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PurposeTo develop an automated measure of COVID-19 pulmonary disease severity on chest radiographs (CXRs), for longitudinal disease evaluation and clinical risk stratification. Materials and MethodsA convolutional Siamese neural network-based algorithm was trained to output a measure of pulmonary disease severity on anterior-posterior CXRs (pulmonary x-ray severity (PXS) score), using weakly-supervised pretraining on ~160,000 images from CheXpert and transfer learning on 314 CXRs from patients ...

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