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The empty convolution (EC) and U-net phase were combined to construct an EC-U-net, which was applied to process the CT images. The results showed that the learning rate of the EC-U-net model decreased substantially with increasing training times until it stabilized and reached zero after 40 training times. The segmentation result of the EC-U-net model for the CT image was very similar to that of the mask image, except for some deviations in edge segmentation. The EC-U-net model exhibited a significantly smaller cross-entropy loss function (CELF) and a higher Dice coefficient than the CNN algorithm. The diagnostic accuracy of CT images based on the EC-U-net model for severe pneumonia complicated with pulmonary infection was substantially higher than that of CT images alone, while the false negative rate (FNR) and false positive rate (FPR) were substantially lower (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> &amp;lt; 0.05). Moreover, the true positive rates (TPRs) of CT images based on the EC-U-net model for patchy high-density shadows, diffuse ground glass density shadows, pleural effusion, and lung consolidation were obviously higher than those of the original CT images (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> &amp;lt; 0.05). In short, the EC-U-net model was superior to the traditional algorithm regarding the overall performance of CT image segmentation, which can be clinically applied. 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