Data augmentation approaches using cycle-consistent adversarial networks for improving COVID-19 screening in portable chest X-ray images

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Highlights:

• The computer-aided diagnosis of COVID-19 in chest X-ray images helps specialists.

• A COVID-19 screening improval is proposed, considering a powerful data augmentation.

• Data augmentation generates synthetic images using the 3 CycleGAN architectures.

• Portable devices help to prevent contagion, and are the recommended during pandemic.

• Only fully automatic methodology designed to work with portable X-ray devices.

摘要

•The computer-aided diagnosis of COVID-19 in chest X-ray images helps specialists.•A COVID-19 screening improval is proposed, considering a powerful data augmentation.•Data augmentation generates synthetic images using the 3 CycleGAN architectures.•Portable devices help to prevent contagion, and are the recommended during pandemic.•Only fully automatic methodology designed to work with portable X-ray devices.

论文关键词:X-ray portable device,COVID-19,Data augmentation,Screening,CycleGAN,Deep learning

论文评审过程:Received 15 April 2021, Revised 2 July 2021, Accepted 25 July 2021, Available online 31 July 2021, Version of Record 4 August 2021.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2021.115681