SMU Data Science Review

Using AI to Diagnose COVID-19 from Patient Chest CT Scans

Samuel Arellano, Southern Methodist UniversityFollow
Liang Huang, Southern Methodist UniversityFollow
Joe Jiang, Southern Methodist UniversityFollow
Kenneth Richardson, Southern Methodist UniversityFollow
Omar Yasser, Columbus State UniversityFollow

Abstract

Rapid and accurate detection of COVID-19 remains the best weapon to control and prevent the spread of this pandemic, at least before a vaccine or treatment is available. In this study, we trained our custom computer vision models to predict COVID-19 from patients’ CT scans. We trained one model using Google’s AutoML Vision platform and achieved comparable accuracy with previously reported models. We also trained several custom models using transfer learning by taking advantage of several well-unknown pre-trained computer vision models, including Resnet and Inception models. The models are fine-tuned with a relatively large dataset and their high accuracy should make them more generalizable for potential clinical application.

Recommended Citation

Arellano, Samuel; Huang, Liang; Jiang, Joe; Richardson, Kenneth; and Yasser, Omar (2020) "Using AI to Diagnose COVID-19 from Patient Chest CT Scans," SMU Data Science Review: Vol. 3: No. 2, Article 18.
Available at: https://scholar.smu.edu/datasciencereview/vol3/iss2/18