“…For example, segmentation of pneumonia infection regions in CT can be beneficial as a first step within detection and analysis methods based on convolutional neural networks (CNN) for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) ( Zhou et al, 2020 , Gao et al, 2020a , Amyar et al, 2020 , Harmon et al, 2020 , H.t. et al, 2020 , Paluru et al, 2021 , Tilborghs et al, 2020 , Ghomi et al, 2020 , Voulodimos et al, 2021a , Hasan et al, 2021 , Voulodimos et al, 2021b , Ranjbarzadeh et al, 2021 , Elharrouss et al, 2020 , Singh et al, 2021 , Yan et al, 2021 ). Health condition of many hospitalized COVID-19 patients often deteriorates and requires mechanical ventilation or high-flow oxygenation ( Lassau et al, 2021 ).…”