Coronavirus (COVID-19) detection from chest radiology images using convolutional neural networks

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Highlights

  • Coronavirus (COVID-19) Detection from Chest Radiology Images.

  • The proposed model is able to deal with both chest X-Ray and CT scan images.

  • Proposed model is trained on a large dataset and is being used at the Radiology Department, (BVHB), Pakistan.

  • An efficient method and alternate of Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR).

  • Achieved an overall accuracy of 96.68 %.

Abstract

Coronavirus disease (Covid-19) has been spreading all over the world and its diagnosis is attracting more research every moment. It is need of the hour to develop automated methods, which could detect this disease at its early stage, in a non-invasive way and within lesser time. Currently, medical specialists are analyzing Computed Tomography (CT), X-Ray, and Ultrasound (US) images or conducting Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) for its confirmation on manual basis. In Pakistan, CT scanners are available in most hospitals at district level, while X-Ray machines are available in all tehsil (large urban towns) level hospitals. Being widely used imaging modalities to analyze chest related diseases, produce large volume of medical data each moment clinical environments. Since automatic, time efficient and reliable methods for Covid-19 detection are required as alternate methods, therefore an automatic method of Covid-19 detection using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) has been proposed. Three publically available and a locally developed dataset, obtained from Department of Radiology (Diagnostics), Bahawal Victoria Hospital, Bahawalpur (BVHB), Pakistan have been used. The proposed method achieved on average accuracy (96.68 %), specificity (95.65 %), and sensitivity (96.24 %). Proposed model is trained on a large dataset and is being used at the Radiology Department, (BVHB), Pakistan.

Keywords

Covid-19 detection
Chest radiology images
Machine learning

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