Augmented Reality for medical practice: a comparative study of Deep learning models for Ct-scan segmentation

The coronavirus disease has hardly affected medical healthcare systems worldwide. Physicians use radiological examinations as a primary clinical tool for diagnosing patients with suspected COVID-19 infection. Recently, deep learning approaches have further enhanced medical image processing and analysis, reduced the workload of radiologists, and improved the performance of radiology systems. This paper addresses medical image segmentation; we present a comparative performance study of four neural networks ’NN’ models, U-Net, 3D-Unet, KiU-Net and SegNet, for aid diagnosis. Additionally, we present his 3D reconstruction of COVID-19 lesions and lungs and his AR platform with augmented reality, including AR visualization and interaction. Quantitative and qualitative assessments are provided for both contributions. The NN model performed well in the AI-COVID-19 diagnostic process. The AR-COVID-19 platform can be viewed as an ancillary diagnostic tool for medical practice. It serves as a tool to support radiologist visualization and reading.