Segmentation of Chest X-Ray Images Using U-Net Model

Mohammed Y. Kamil; Sahar A. Hashem

doi:10.13164/mendel.2022.2.049

Mohammed Y. Kamil College of Science, Mustansiriyah University, Baghdad, Iraq https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5709-2549
Sahar A. Hashem College of Science, Mustansiriyah University, Baghdad, Iraq

DOI: https://doi.org/10.13164/mendel.2022.2.049

Keywords: U-Net, Segmentation, Deep learning, Coronavirus, lung, X-ray, CNN

Abstract

Medical imaging, such as chest X-rays, gives an acceptable image of lung functions. Manipulating these images by a radiologist is difficult, thus delaying the diagnosis. Coronavirus is a disease that affects the lung area. Lung segmentation has a significant function in assessing lung disorders. The process of segmentation has seen widespread use of deep learning algorithms. The U-Net is one of the most significant semantic segmentation frameworks for a convolutional neural network. In this paper, the proposed U-Net architecture is evaluated on 565 datasets divided into 500 training images and 65 validation images, For chest X-ray. The findings of the experiments demonstrate that the suggested strategy successfully achieved competitive outcomes with 91.47% and 89.18% accuracy, 0.7494 and 0.7480 IoU, 19.23% and 26.11% loss for training and validation images, respectively.

Author Biography

Mohammed Y. Kamil, College of Science, Mustansiriyah University, Baghdad, Iraq

Mohammed Y. Kamil holds a Master of Science (M.Sc.) in optics from Mustansiriyah university in 2005. and Ph.D. in digital image processing from Mustansiriyah university, Iraq, in 2011, besides several professional certificates and skills. He is currently a professor with the physics department at Mustansiriyah University, Baghdad, Iraq. He is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and an editor in the Iraqi Journal of Physics. His research areas of interest include medical image processing, computer vision, and Artificial Intelligence. He can be contacted at email: m80y98@uomustansiriyah.edu.iq.

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