Evaluating Transferability for Covid 3D Localization Using CT SARS-CoV-2 segmentation models

Recent studies indicate that detecting radiographic patterns on CT scans can yield high sensitivity and specificity for COVID-19 localization. In this paper, we investigate the appropriateness of deep learning models transferability, for semantic segmentation of pneumonia-infected areas in CT images. Transfer learning allows for the fast initialization/ reutilization of detection models, given that large volumes of training are not available. Our work explores the efficacy of using pre-trained U-Net architectures, on a specific CT data set, for identifying Covid-19 side-effects over images from different datasets. Experimental results indicate improvement in the segmentation accuracy of identifying COVID-19 infected regions.