Diagnosis and Prediction Model for COVID-19 Patient’s Response to Treatment based on Convolutional Neural Networks and Whale Optimization Algorithm Using CT Images

The outbreak of coronavirus diseases (COVID-19) has rabidly spread all over the world. The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced that coronavirus COVID-19 is an international pandemic. The Real-Time Reverse transcription-polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) has a low positive and sensitivity rate in the early stage of COVID-19. As a result, the Computed Tomography (CT) imaging is used for diagnosing. COVID-19 has different key signs on a CT scan differ from other viral pneumonia. These signs include ground-glass opacities, consolidations, and crazy paving. In this paper, an Artificial Intelli-gence-inspired Model for COVID-19 Diagnosis and Prediction for Patient Response to Treatment (AIMDP) is proposed. AIMDP model has two main functions reflected in two proposed modules, namely, the Diagnosis Module (DM) and Prediction Module (PM). The Diagnosis Module (DM) is proposed for early and accurately detecting the patients with COVID-19 and distinguish it from other viral pneumonias using COVID-19 signs obtained from CT scans. The DM model, uses Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) as a Deep learning technique for segmentation, can process hundreds of CT images in seconds to speed up diagnosis of COVID-19 and contribute in its containment. In addition, some countries haven’t the ability to provide all patients with the treatment and intensive care services, so it will be mandatory to give treatment to only responding patients. In this context, the Prediction Module (PM) is proposed for predicting the ability of the patient to respond to treatment based on different factors e.g. age, infection stage, respiratory failure, multi-organ failure and the treatment regimens. PM implement the Whale Optimization Algorithm for selecting the most relevant patient’s features. The experimental results show promising performance for the proposed diagnosing and prediction modules, using a dataset with hundreds of real data and CT images.