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Previously solo deep learning (SDL) was tried but they had low to moderate-level performance. This study presents two new cloud-based quantized deep learning UNet3+ hybrid (HDL) models, which incorporated full-scale skip connections to enhance and improve the detections.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methodology<\/jats:title><jats:p>Annotations from expert radiologists were used to train one SDL (UNet3+), and two HDL models, namely, VGG-UNet3+ and ResNet-UNet3+. For accuracy, 5-fold cross-validation protocols, training on 3,500 CT scans, and testing on unseen 500 CT scans were adopted in the cloud framework. Two kinds of loss functions were used: Dice Similarity (DS) and binary cross-entropy (BCE). Performance was evaluated using (i) Area error, (ii) DS, (iii) Jaccard Index, (iii) Bland\u2013Altman, and (iv) Correlation plots.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>Among the two HDL models, ResNet-UNet3+ was superior to UNet3+ by 17 and 10% for Dice and BCE loss. The models were further compressed using quantization showing a percentage size reduction of 66.76, 36.64, and 46.23%, respectively, for UNet3+, VGG-UNet3+, and ResNet-UNet3+. Its stability and reliability were proved by statistical tests such as the Mann\u2013Whitney, Paired <jats:italic>t<\/jats:italic>-Test, Wilcoxon test, and Friedman test all of which had a <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u2009&amp;lt;\u20090.001.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title><jats:p>Full-scale skip connections of UNet3+ with VGG and ResNet in HDL framework proved the hypothesis showing powerful results improving the detection accuracy of COVID-19.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.3389\/frai.2024.1304483","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,6,28]],"date-time":"2024-06-28T13:31:27Z","timestamp":1719581487000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":6,"title":["COVLIAS 3.0: cloud-based quantized hybrid UNet3+ deep learning for COVID-19 lesion detection in lung computed tomography"],"prefix":"10.3389","volume":"7","author":[{"given":"Sushant","family":"Agarwal","sequence":"first","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Sanjay","family":"Saxena","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Alessandro","family":"Carriero","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Gian Luca","family":"Chabert","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Gobinath","family":"Ravindran","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Sudip","family":"Paul","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"John R.","family":"Laird","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Deepak","family":"Garg","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Mostafa","family":"Fatemi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Lopamudra","family":"Mohanty","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Arun K.","family":"Dubey","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Rajesh","family":"Singh","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Mostafa M.","family":"Fouda","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Narpinder","family":"Singh","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Subbaram","family":"Naidu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Klaudija","family":"Viskovic","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Melita","family":"Kukuljan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Manudeep K.","family":"Kalra","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Luca","family":"Saba","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Jasjit S.","family":"Suri","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]}],"member":"1965","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,6,28]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"1861","DOI":"10.1007\/s10916-010-9645-2","article-title":"Symptomatic vs. asymptomatic plaque classification in carotid ultrasound","volume":"36","author":"Acharya","year":"","journal-title":"J. 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