Intelligent Computing Applications for COVID-19

12 Automatic Lung Infection Segmentation of Covid-19 in CT Scan Images

Mohsen Karimi, Majid Harouni, Afrooz Nasr, and Nakisa Tavakoli

Contents

1. 12.1 Introduction
2. 12.2 Lung Anatomy
3. 12.3 DL in COVID-19
4. 12.4 History of Transfer Learning (TL)
5. 12.5 Aim of TL
6. 12.6 Common Block Diagram of Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)
7. 12.7 Discussion
8. 12.8 Evaluation
9. 12.9 COVID-19 Database
10. 12.10 Conclusion
11. References

12.1 Introduction

The unknown coronavirus spread from Wuhan, China, in 2019. The disease caused by the coronavirus called COVID-19 has been identified as a major new concern by the World Health Organization (WHO) (Wang et al., 2020). The number of people infected with the virus has now exceeded 50,000,000, and the death toll has exceeded 1,000,000 (Benvenuto et al., ...