| Id |
Subject |
Object |
Predicate |
Lexical cue |
| T80 |
0-100 |
Sentence |
denotes |
A platform was developed for annotating lesion areas of COVID-19 in medical images (X-data, CT-data) |
| T81 |
101-264 |
Sentence |
denotes |
Medical imaging uses images of internal tissues of the human body or a part of the human body in a non-invasive manner for clinical diagnoses or treatment plans36. |
| T82 |
265-451 |
Sentence |
denotes |
Medical images (e.g., X-data and CT-data) are usually acquired using computed radiography and are typically stored in the Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) format37. |
| T83 |
452-631 |
Sentence |
denotes |
X-data are two-dimensional grayscale images, and CT-data are three-dimensional data, consisting of slices of the data in the z axis direction of a two-dimensional grayscale image. |
| T84 |
632-747 |
Sentence |
denotes |
Machine learning methods are playing increasingly important roles in medical image analysis, especially DL methods. |
| T85 |
748-868 |
Sentence |
denotes |
DL uses multiple non-linear transformations to create a mapping relationship between the input data and output labels38. |
| T86 |
869-963 |
Sentence |
denotes |
The objective of this study was to annotate lesion areas in medical images with high accuracy. |
| T87 |
964-1152 |
Sentence |
denotes |
Therefore, we developed a pseudo-coloring method, which is a technique that helps enhance medical images for physicians to isolate relevant tissues and groups different tissues together39. |
| T88 |
1153-1313 |
Sentence |
denotes |
We converted the original grayscale images to color images using the open-source image processing tools Open Source Computer Vision Library (OpenCV) and Pillow. |
| T89 |
1314-1371 |
Sentence |
denotes |
Examples of the pseudo-color images are shown in Fig. 1a. |
| T90 |
1372-1511 |
Sentence |
denotes |
We developed a platform that uses a client-server architecture to annotate the potential lesion areas of COVID-19 on the CXR and CT images. |
| T91 |
1512-1591 |
Sentence |
denotes |
The platform can be deployed on a private cloud for security and local sharing. |
| T92 |
1592-1750 |
Sentence |
denotes |
All the images were annotated by two experienced radiologists (one was a 5th-year radiologist and the other was a 3rd-year radiologist) in the Youan Hospital. |
| T93 |
1751-1913 |
Sentence |
denotes |
If there was disagreement about a result, a senior radiologist and a respiratory doctor made the final decision to ensure the precision of the annotation process. |
| T94 |
1914-1987 |
Sentence |
denotes |
The details of the annotation pipeline are shown in Supplementary Fig. 1. |
| T95 |
1988-2094 |
Sentence |
denotes |
Fig. 1 Demonstrations of data preprocessing methods including pseudo-coloring and dimension normalization. |
| T96 |
2095-2160 |
Sentence |
denotes |
a Pseudo-coloring for abnormal examples in the CXR and CT images. |
| T97 |
2161-2293 |
Sentence |
denotes |
The original grayscale images were transformed into color images using the pseudo-coloring method and were annotated by the experts. |
| T98 |
2294-2437 |
Sentence |
denotes |
The scale bar on the right is the range of pixel values of the image data. b Dimension normalization to reduce the dimensions in the CT images. |
| T99 |
2438-2541 |
Sentence |
denotes |
The number of CT images were first resampled to a multiple of three and then divided into three groups. |
| T100 |
2542-2620 |
Sentence |
denotes |
Followed by the 1 × 1 convolution layers to reduce the dimensions of the data. |