COVID-19 Identification in CLAHE Enhanced CT Scans with Class Imbalance using Ensembled ResNets
Sowmya Sanagavarapu, Sashank Sridhar, T. V. Gopal
Abstract
The occurrence of imbalanced datasets in medical imaging has proven to be a challenge for the development of models to analyze and evaluate the underlying condition. In this paper, the bias of the chest CT scan dataset is handled by taking discrete splits and employing ResNets to detect COVID-19 in each split. The scraped images were pre-processed using CLAHE histogram for comparison with low contrast images. Multiple ResNets were extended to form an ensemble neural network model using ANNs which handles the class imbalance. The system has an overall accuracy of 87.23% and the performance is assessed for each class. The image features identified are visualized using the GradCAM algorithm and some of the commonly found clinical features in the CT scan images of the patients suffering from this disease are summarized for better understanding the working of the model.