Chapter 9

Artificial intelligence for chest imaging against COVID-19: an insight into image segmentation methods

Rossana Buongiorno1, Danila Germanese1, Leonardo Colligiani2, Salvatore Claudio Fanni2, Chiara Romei3 and Sara Colantonio1,    1Institute of Information Science and Technologies “A. Faedo”, National Research Council of Italy, Pisa, Italy,    2Department of Translational Research, Academic Radiology, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy,    3nd Radiology Unit, Pisa University Hospital, Pisa, Italy

Abstract

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, emerged in late 2019 and soon developed as a pandemic leading to a world health crisis.

Chest imaging examination plays a vital role ...

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