International Journal of Circuits, Systems and Signal Processing

   
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Volume 15, 2021

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Volume 15, 2021

Title of the Paper: Application of a Memristive Neural Network for Classification of COVID-19 patients

Authors: Stoyan Kirilov, Violeta Todorova, Ognyan Nakov, Valeri Mladenov

Pages: 1282-1291 

DOI: 10.46300/9106.2021.15.138     XML

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Abstract: The global pandemic of COVID-19 has affected the lives of millions around the globe. We learn new facts about this corona virus every day. A contribution to this knowledge is described in the paper and it is related to employment of memristor neural networks and algorithms that help us analyze patients’ data and determine what patients are at increased risk for developing severe medical conditions once infected with the COVID-19. An efficient separation of potential patients in ill and healthy sub-groups is conducted using software and hardware neural networks, machine learning and unsupervised clustering. In the recent years, many works are related to reducing of neural chips area for the hardware realization of neural networks. For this purpose, a partial replacement of CMOS transistors in neural networks by memristors is made. Some of the main memristor advantages are its lower power consumption, nano-scale sizes, sound memory effect and a good compatibility to CMOS technology. In this reason, the main purpose of this paper is application of a memristor-based neural network with tantalum oxide memristor synapses for COVID-19 analysis. Additional experiments with data clustering are conducted. Experiments show that in fact patients with specific underlying health conditions and indicators are more predisposed to develop severe COVID-19 illness. This research is helpful for engineers and scientists to easier identifying patients that would need medical help