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The coronavirus outbreak became a major concern for society worldwide. Technological innovation and ingenuity are essential to fight COVID-19 pandemic and bring us one step closer to overcome it. Researchers over the world are working actively to find available alternatives in different fields, such as the Healthcare System, pharmaceutic, health prevention, among others. With the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) in the last 10 years, IA-based applications have become the prevalent solution in different areas because of its higher capability, being now adopted to help combat against COVID-19. This work provides a fast detection system of COVID-19 characteristics in X-Ray images based on deep learning (DL) techniques. This system is available as a free web deployed service for fast patient classification, alleviating the high demand for standards method for COVID-19 diagnosis. It is constituted of two deep learning models, one to differentiate between X-Ray and non-X-Ray images based on Mobile-Net architecture, and another one to identify chest X-Ray images with characteristics of COVID-19 based on the DenseNet architecture. For real-time inference, it is provided a pair of dedicated GPUs, which reduce the computational time. The whole system can filter out non-chest X-Ray images, and detect whether the X-Ray presents characteristics of COVID-19, highlighting the most sensitive regions.
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This work could not have been done without the collaboration of the entire team of the Applied Computational Intelligence Laboratory (ICA) and Cenpes/Petrobras, partners for 21 years in the research and development of artificial intelligence projects for oil and gas sector.
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Castro, J.D.B. et al. (2022). A Free Web Service for Fast COVID-19 Classification of Chest X-Ray Images with Artificial Intelligence. In: Gervasi, O., Murgante, B., Hendrix, E.M.T., Taniar, D., Apduhan, B.O. (eds) Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2022. ICCSA 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13375. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-10522-7_29
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