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Authors: D. Vijayalakshmi 1 ; Malaya Kumar Nath 1 and Madhusudhan Mishra 2

Affiliations: 1 Department of ECE, National Institute of Technology Puducherry, Karaikal, India ; 2 Department of ECE, North Eastern Regional Institute of Science and Technology, Nirjuli, Arunachal Pradesh, India

Keyword(s): CT Image Enhancement, Gradient based Edge Information, Pre-processing for Medical Images, Contrast Improvement Index.

Abstract: An accurate evaluation of computed tomography (CT) chest images is crucial in the early-stage detection of Covid-19. The accuracy of a diagnosis is determined by the imaging modality used and the images’ consistency. This paper describes a gradient-based enhancement algorithm (GCE) for CT images that can increase the visibility of the infected region. Using a multi-scale dependent dark pass filter aims to increase contrast while preserving information and edge details of the infected area. Joint occurrence between the edge details and pixel intensities of the input image is calculated to construct a cumulative distribution function (CDF). To obtain the contrast improved image, the CDF is mapped to the uniform distribution. The GCE approach is tested on the CT Covid database, and performance metrics like the contrast improvement index (CII), discrete entropy (DE), and Kullback-Leibler distance (KL-Distance) are used to evaluate the results. Compared to other techniques available in th e literature, the GCE approach produces the highest CII and DE values and has more uniformity. To check the suitability of the enhancement algorithm in terms of pre-processing, a pre-trained AlexNet is employed for the classification of Covid-19 images. The finding shows an improvement of 7% in classification accuracy after enhancing the Covid-19 images using the GCE technique. (More)

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Vijayalakshmi, D.; Nath, M. and Mishra, M. (2021). Novel Pre-processing Stage for Classification of CT Scan Covid-19 Images. In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications - SIGMAP; ISBN 978-989-758-525-8; ISSN 2184-9471, SciTePress, pages 87-94. DOI: 10.5220/0010625200870094

@conference{sigmap21,
author={D. Vijayalakshmi. and Malaya Kumar Nath. and Madhusudhan Mishra.},
title={Novel Pre-processing Stage for Classification of CT Scan Covid-19 Images},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications - SIGMAP},
year={2021},
pages={87-94},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010625200870094},
isbn={978-989-758-525-8},
issn={2184-9471},
}

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications - SIGMAP
TI - Novel Pre-processing Stage for Classification of CT Scan Covid-19 Images
SN - 978-989-758-525-8
IS - 2184-9471
AU - Vijayalakshmi, D.
AU - Nath, M.
AU - Mishra, M.
PY - 2021
SP - 87
EP - 94
DO - 10.5220/0010625200870094
PB - SciTePress