Automatic classification of pediatric pneumonia based on lung ultrasound pattern recognition

Malena Correa; Mirko Zimic; Franklin Barrientos; Ronald Barrientos; Avid Román-Gonzalez; Mónica J. Pajuelo; Cynthia Anticona; Holger Mayta; Alicia Alva; Leonardo Solis-Vasquez; Dante Anibal Figueroa; Miguel A. Chavez; Roberto Lavarello; Benjamín Castañeda; Valerie A. Paz-Soldán; William Checkley; Robert H. Gilman; Richard Oberhelman

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0206410

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Automatic classification of pediatric pneumonia based on lung ultrasound pattern recognition

Malena Correa ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Malena Correa, Mirko Zimic

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: mcorrea1@tulane.edu

Affiliations Department of Global Community Health and Behavioral Sciences, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America, Bioinformatics and Molecular Biology Laboratory, Department of Cellular and Molecular Sciences, Faculty of Science, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8938-0091

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Mirko Zimic ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Malena Correa, Mirko Zimic

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Bioinformatics and Molecular Biology Laboratory, Department of Cellular and Molecular Sciences, Faculty of Science, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru
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Franklin Barrientos ,

Roles Formal analysis, Software

¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Bioinformatics and Molecular Biology Laboratory, Department of Cellular and Molecular Sciences, Faculty of Science, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru
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Ronald Barrientos ,

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Software

¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Bioinformatics and Molecular Biology Laboratory, Department of Cellular and Molecular Sciences, Faculty of Science, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru
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Avid Román-Gonzalez,

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Software, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Bioinformatics and Molecular Biology Laboratory, Department of Cellular and Molecular Sciences, Faculty of Science, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru, Research and Development Laboratory, Science and Philosophy Faculty, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Perú
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Mónica J. Pajuelo ,

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – original draft

¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Department of Global Community Health and Behavioral Sciences, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America, Bioinformatics and Molecular Biology Laboratory, Department of Cellular and Molecular Sciences, Faculty of Science, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru
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Cynthia Anticona ,

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Department of Global Community Health and Behavioral Sciences, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America, Bioinformatics and Molecular Biology Laboratory, Department of Cellular and Molecular Sciences, Faculty of Science, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru
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Holger Mayta,

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliations Department of Global Community Health and Behavioral Sciences, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America, Infectious Diseases Research Laboratory, Department of Cellular and Molecular Sciences, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru
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Alicia Alva,

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Bioinformatics and Molecular Biology Laboratory, Department of Cellular and Molecular Sciences, Faculty of Science, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru
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Leonardo Solis-Vasquez,

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliations Bioinformatics and Molecular Biology Laboratory, Department of Cellular and Molecular Sciences, Faculty of Science, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru, Research and Development Laboratory, Science and Philosophy Faculty, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Perú
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Dante Anibal Figueroa,

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Unidad De Rehidratación Oral. Instituto Nacional de Salud del Niño, Lima, Peru
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Miguel A. Chavez,

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Biomedical Research Unit, Asociación Benéfica Prisma, Lima, Peru
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Roberto Lavarello,

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Laboratorio de Imágenes Médicas, Sección Electricidad y Electrónica, Departamento de Ingeniería Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, San Miguel, Lima, Perú
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Benjamín Castañeda,

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Laboratorio de Imágenes Médicas, Sección Electricidad y Electrónica, Departamento de Ingeniería Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, San Miguel, Lima, Perú
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Valerie A. Paz-Soldán,

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Global Community Health and Behavioral Sciences, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America
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William Checkley,

Roles Investigation

Affiliations Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Maryland, United States of America, Program in Global Disease Epidemiology and Control, Bloombeg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Maryland, United States of America
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Robert H. Gilman,

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
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Richard Oberhelman

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Global Community Health and Behavioral Sciences, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America
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Automatic classification of pediatric pneumonia based on lung ultrasound pattern recognition

Malena Correa,
Mirko Zimic,
Franklin Barrientos,
Ronald Barrientos,
Avid Román-Gonzalez,
Mónica J. Pajuelo,
Cynthia Anticona,
Holger Mayta,
Alicia Alva,
Leonardo Solis-Vasquez

Published: December 5, 2018
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0206410

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