Deep learning with robustness to missing data: A novel approach to the detection of COVID-19

Erdi Çallı; Keelin Murphy; Steef Kurstjens; Tijs Samson; Robert Herpers; Henk Smits; Matthieu Rutten; Bram van Ginneken

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0255301

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Deep learning with robustness to missing data: A novel approach to the detection of COVID-19

Erdi Çallı ,

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft

* E-mail: erdi.calli@radboudumc.nl

Affiliation Diagnostic Image Analysis Group, Radboudumc, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3962-7276

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Keelin Murphy,

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Diagnostic Image Analysis Group, Radboudumc, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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Steef Kurstjens,

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Laboratory for Clinical Chemistry and Hematology, Jeroen Bosch Hospital, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands
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Tijs Samson,

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Laboratory for Clinical Chemistry and Hematology, Jeroen Bosch Hospital, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands
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Robert Herpers,

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Laboratory for Clinical Chemistry and Hematology, Bernhoven Hospital, Uden, The Netherlands
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Henk Smits,

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Laboratory for Clinical Chemistry and Hematology, Bernhoven Hospital, Uden, The Netherlands
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Matthieu Rutten,

Roles Data curation

Affiliations Diagnostic Image Analysis Group, Radboudumc, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, Department of Radiology, Jeroen Bosch Hospital, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands
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Bram van Ginneken

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Diagnostic Image Analysis Group, Radboudumc, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2028-8972

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Deep learning with robustness to missing data: A novel approach to the detection of COVID-19

Erdi Çallı,
Keelin Murphy,
Steef Kurstjens,
Tijs Samson,
Robert Herpers,
Henk Smits,
Matthieu Rutten,
Bram van Ginneken

Published: July 30, 2021
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0255301

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