Performance, Trust, or both? COVID-19 Diagnosis and Prognosis using Deep Ensemble Transfer Learning on X-ray Imagesg±

The COVID-19 pandemic still affects most parts of the world today. Despite a lot of research on diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment, a big challenge today is the limited number of expert radiologists who provide diagnosis and prognosis on X-Ray images. Thus, to make the diagnosis of COVID-19 accessible and quicker, several researchers have proposed deep-learning-based Artificial Intelligence (AI) models. While most of these proposed machine and deep learning models work in theory, they may not find acceptance among the medical community for clinical use due to weak statistical validation. For this article, radiologists' views were considered to understand the correlation between the theoretical findings and real-life observations. The article explores Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) classification models to build a four-class viz. "COVID-19", "Lung Opacity", "Pneumonia", and "Normal"classifiers, which also provide the uncertainty measure associated with each class. The authors also employ various pre-processing techniques to enhance the X-Ray images for specific features. To address the issues of over-fitting while training, as well as to address the class imbalance problem in our dataset, we use Monte Carlo dropout and Focal Loss respectively. Finally, we provide a comparative analysis of the following classification models - ResNet-18, VGG-19, ResNet-152, MobileNet-V2, Inception-V3, and EfficientNet-V2, where we match the state-of-the-art results on the Open Benchmark Chest X-ray datasets, with a sensitivity of 0.9954, specificity of 0.9886, the precision of 0.9880, F1-score of 0.9851, accuracy of 0.9816, and receiver operating characteristic (ROC) of the area under the curve (AUC) of 0.9781 (ROC-AUC score). © 2022 ACM.

Research on Chest X-Ray Image Diagnosis of Covid-19 Based on Improved ResNet

With the outbreak of covid-19 in 2020, timely and effective diagnosis and treatment of each covid-19 patient is particularly important. This paper combines the advantages of deep learning in image recognition, takes RESNET as the basic network framework, and carries out the experiment of improving the residual structure on this basis. It is tested on the open source new coronal chest radiograph data set, and the accuracy rate is 82.3%. Through a series of experiments, the training model has the advantages of good generalization, high accuracy and fast convergence. This paper proves the feasibility of the improved residual neural network in the diagnosis of covid-19. © 2023 SPIE.

Multi-Joint Unit Network for COVID-19 Diagnosis using X-Ray and CT Images

The global COVID-19 pandemic has caused a health crisis globally. Automated diagnostic methods can control the spread of the pandemic, as well as assists physicians to tackle high workload conditions through the quick treatment of affected patients. Owing to the scarcity of medical images and from different resources, the present image heterogeneity has raised challenges for achieving effective approaches to network training and effectively learning robust features. We propose a multi-joint unit network for the diagnosis of COVID-19 using the joint unit module, which leverages the receptive fields from multiple resolutions for learning rich representations. Existing approaches usually employ a large number of layers to learn the features, which consequently requires more computational power and increases the network complexity. To compensate, our joint unit module extracts low-, same-, and high-resolution feature maps simultaneously using different phases. Later, these learned feature maps are fused and utilized for classification layers. We observed that our model helps to learn sufficient information for classification without a performance loss and with faster convergence. We used three public benchmark datasets to demonstrate the performance of our network. Our proposed network consistently outperforms existing state-of-the-art approaches by demonstrating better accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity and F1-score across all datasets. © 2022 ACM.

Covid-19 X-Ray Image Detection using ResNet50 and VGG16 in Convolution Neural Network

COVID-19 is an outbreak of disease which is created by China. COVID-19 is originated by coronavirus (CoV), generally created mutation pattern with 'SARS-CoV2' or '2019 novel coronavirus'. It is declared by the World Health Organization of 2019 in December. COVID-19 is a contagious virus and contiguous disease that will create the morality of life. Even though it is detected in an early stage it can be incurable if the severity is more. The throat and nose samples are collected to identify COVID-19 disease. We collected the X-Ray images to identify the virus. We propose a system to diagnose the images using Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) models. Dataset used consists of both Covid and Normal X-ray images. Among Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) models, the proposed models are ResNet50 and VGG16. RESNET50 consists of 48 convolutional, 1 MaxPool, and Average Pool layers, and VGG16 is another convolutional neural network that consists of 16 deep layers. By using these two models, the detection of COVID-19 is done. This research is designed to help physicians for successful detection of COVID-19 disease at an early stage in the medical field. © 2022 IEEE.

Deep-learning models for Covid-19 Detection Using Chest X-Ray Images

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks are a form of neural network that can categorize, recognize, or separate images. The problem of COVID-19 detection has become the world's most complex challenge since 2019. In this research work, Chest X-Ray images are used to detect patients' Covid Positive or Negative with the help of pre-trained models: VGG16, InceptionV3, ResNet50, and InceptionResNetV2. In this paper, 821 samples are used for training, 186 samples for validation, and 184 samples are used for testing. Hybrid model InceptionResNetV2 has achieved overall maximum accuracy of 94.56% with a Recall value of 96% for normal CXR images, and a precision of 95.12% for Covid Positive images. The lowest accuracy was achieved by the ResNet50 model of 92.93% on the testing dataset, and a Recall of 93.93% was achieved for the normal images. Throughout the implementation process, it was discovered that factors like epoch had a considerable impact on the model's accuracy. Consequently, it is advised that the model be trained with a sufficient number of epochs to provide reliable classification results. The study's findings suggest that deep learning models have an excellent potential for correctly identifying the covid positive or covid negative using CXR images. © 2023 IEEE.

Chest X-ray Imaging System for Early Detection of Tuberculosis

Today it is observed that few people respect the biosecurity measures announced by the WHO, which aimed to reduce the amount of COVID-19 infection among people, even knowing that this virus has not disappeared from our environment, being an unprecedented infection in the world. It should be noted that before this pandemic, tuberculosis affected millions of people, having a great role because it is highly contagious and directly affects the lungs, although it has a cure, if it is not treated in time it can be fatal for the person, although there are many methods of detection of tuberculosis, one that is most often used is the diagnosis by chest x-ray, although it has low specificity, when the image processing technique is applied, tuberculosis would be accurately detected. In view of this problem, in this article a chest X-ray image processing system was conducted for the early detection of tuberculosis, helping doctors to detect tuberculosis accurately and quickly by having a second opinion by the system in the analysis of the chest x-ray, prevents fatal infections in patients. Through the development of the tuberculosis early detection system, it was possible to observe the correct functioning of the system with an efficiency of 97.84% in the detection of tuberculosis, detailing the characteristics presented by normal or abnormal images so that the doctor detects tuberculosis in the patient early. © 2023 IEEE.

COVID-19 Prognosis from Chest X-ray Images by using Deep Learning Approaches: A Next Generation Diagnostic Tool

Global public health is overwhelmed due to the ongoing Corona Virus Disease (COVID-19). As of October 2022, the causative virus SARS-CoV-2 and its multiple variants have infected more than 600 million confirmed cases and nearly 6.5 million fatalities globally. The main objective of this reported study is to understand the COVID-19 infection better from the chest X-ray (CXR) image database of COVID-19 cases from the dataset of CXR of normal, pneumonia and COVID-19 patients. Deep learning approaches like VGG-16 and LSTM models were used to classify images as normal, pneumonia and COVID-19 impacted by extracting the features. It has been observed during the COVID-19 pandemic peaks that large number of patients could not avail medical beds and were seen stranded outdoors. To address such health emergency situations with limited available bed and scarcity of expert physicians, computer-aided analysis could save precious lives through early screening and appropriate care. Such computer-based deep-learning strategy could help during future pandemics, especially when the available health resources and the need for preventive measures to take do not match the burden of a disease. [ FROM AUTHOR] Copyright of Journal of Pure & Applied Microbiology is the property of Dr. M. N. Khan and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full . (Copyright applies to all s.)

CovidXNet: An Ensemble of Deep Neural Networks for Non-invasive Binary Identification of COVID-19 through Chest Radiographs

This study compared five different image classification algorithms, namely VGG16, VGG19, AlexNet, DenseNet, and ConVNext, based on their ability to detect and classify COVID-19-related cases given chest X-ray images. Using performance metrics like accuracy, F1 score, precision, recall, and MCC compared these intelligent classification algorithms. Upon testing these algorithms, the accuracy for each model was quite unsatisfactory, ranging from 80.00% to 92.50%, provided it is for medical application. As such, an ensemble learning-based image classification model, made up of AlexNet and VGG19 called CovidXNet, was proposed to detect COVID-19 through chest X-ray images discriminating between health and pneumonic lung images. CovidXNet achieved an accuracy of 97.00%, which was significantly better considering past results. Further studies may be conducted to increase the accuracy, particularly for identifying and classifying chest radiographs for COVID-19-related cases, since the current model may still provide false negatives, which may be detrimental to the prevention of the spread of the virus. © 2022 IEEE.

Diagnosis of COVID-19 from the X-Ray images using BAT Algorithm with Deep Convolutional Neural Network

The COVID-19 widespread has posed a chief contest to the scientific community around the world. For patients with COVID-19 illness, the international community is working to uncover, implement, or invent new approaches for diagnosis and action. A opposite transcription-polymerase chain reaction is currently a reliable tactic for diagnosing infected people. This is a time- and money-consuming procedure. Consequently, the development of new methods is critical. Using X-ray images of the lungs, this research article developed three stages for detecting and diagnosing COVID-19 patients. The median filtering is used to remove the unwanted noised during pre-processing stage. Then, Otsu thresholding technique is used for segmenting the affected regions, where Spider Monkey Optimization (SMO) is used to select the optimal threshold. Finally, the optimized Deep Convolutional Neural Network (DCNN) is used for final classification. The benchmark COVID dataset and balanced COVIDcxr dataset are used to test projected model's performance in this study. Classification of the results shows that the optimized DCNN architecture outperforms the other pre-trained techniques with an accuracy of 95.69% and a specificity of 96.24% and sensitivity of 94.76%. To identify infected lung tissue in images, here SMO-Otsu thresholding technique is used during the segmentation stage and achieved 95.60% of sensitivity and 95.8% of specificity. © 2023 IEEE.

Classifying Chest X-Ray Images using Residual Neural Network

This unprecedented time of the COVID-19 outbreak challenged the status-quo whether it is on business operation, political leadership, scientific capability, engineering implementation, data analysis, and strategic thinking, in terms of resiliency, agility, and innovativeness. Due to some identified constraints, while addressing the issue of global health, human ingenuity has proven again that in times of crisis, it is our best asset. Constraints like limited testing capacity and lack of real-time information regarding the spread of the virus, are the highest priority in the mitigation process, aside from the development of vaccines and the pushing through of vaccination programs. Using the available Chest X-Ray Images dataset and an AI-Computer Vision Technique called Convolutional Neural Network, features of the images were extracted and classified as COVID-19 positive or not. This paper proposes the usage of the 18-layer Residual Neural Network (ResNet-18) as an architecture instead of other ResNet with a higher number of layers. The researcher achieves the highest validation accuracy of 99.26%. Moving forward, using this lower number of layers in training a model classifier, resolves the issue of device constraints such as storage capacity and computing resources while still assuring highly accurate outputs. © 2022 IEEE.

Assessing an AI-based Smart Imagery Framing and Truthing (SIFT) system to assist radiologists annotating lung abnormalities on chest X-ray images for development of deep learning models

To assess a Smart Imagery Framing and Truthing (SIFT) system in automatically labeling and annotating chest X-ray (CXR) images with multiple diseases as an assist to radiologists on multi-disease CXRs. SIFT system was developed by integrating a convolutional neural network based-augmented MaskR-CNN and a multi-layer perceptron neural network. It is trained with images containing 307,415 ROIs representing 69 different abnormalities and 67,071 normal CXRs. SIFT automatically labels ROIs with a specific type of abnormality, annotates fine-grained boundary, gives confidence score, and recommends other possible types of abnormality. An independent set of 178 CXRs containing 272 ROIs depicting five different abnormalities including pulmonary tuberculosis, pulmonary nodule, pneumonia, COVID-19, and fibrogenesis was used to evaluate radiologists' performance based on three radiologists in a double-blinded study. The radiologist first manually annotated each ROI without SIFT. Two weeks later, the radiologist annotated the same ROIs with SIFT aid to generate final results. Evaluation of consistency, efficiency and accuracy for radiologists with and without SIFT was conducted. After using SIFT, radiologists accept 93% SIFT annotated area, and variation across annotated area reduce by 28.23%. Inter-observer variation improves by 25.27% on averaged IOU. The consensus true positive rate increases by 5.00% (p=0.16), and false positive rate decreases by 27.70% (p<0.001). The radiologist's time to annotate these cases decreases by 42.30%. Performance in labelling abnormalities statistically remains the same. Independent observer study showed that SIFT is a promising step toward improving the consistency and efficiency of annotation, which is important for improving clinical X-ray diagnostic and monitoring efficiency. © 2023 SPIE.

Performance Analysis of VGG-16 Deep Learning Model for COVID-19 Detection using Chest X-Ray Images

COVID-19 is an infectious disease caused by newly discovered coronavirus. Currently, RT-PCR and Rapid Testing are used to test a person against COVID-19. These methods do not produce immediate results. Hence, we propose a solution to detect COVID-19 from chest X-ray images for immediate results. The solution is developed using a convolutional neural network architecture (VGG-16) model to extract features by transfer learning and a classification model to classify an input chest X-ray image as COVID-19 positive or negative. We introduced various parameters and computed the impact on the performance of the model to identify the parameters with high impact on the model's performance. The proposed solution is observed to provide best results compared to the existing ones. © 2023 Bharati Vidyapeeth, New Delhi.

Deep Convolutional Neural Network Based Automatic COVID-19 Detection from Chest X-ray Images

To minimize the rate of death from COVID-19 and stop the disease from spreading early detection is vital. The normal RT-PCR tests for COVID-19 detection take a long time to complete. In contrast to this test, Covid-19 can be quickly detected using various machine-learning technologies. Previous studies only had access to smaller datasets, as COVID-19 data was not readily available back then. Since COVID-19 is a dangerous virus, the model needs to be robust and trustworthy, and the model must be trained on a large and diverse dataset. To overcome that problem, this study combines six publicly available Chest X-ray datasets to produce a larger and more diverse balanced dataset with a total of 68,424 images. In this study, we develop a CNN model that primarily entails two steps: (a) feature extraction and (b) classification, which are used to identify COVID-19 positive cases from X-ray images. The accuracy of this proposed model is 97.58%, which is higher than most state-of-the-art models. © 2022 IEEE.

COVID-19 Detection on X-Ray Image Using Deep Learning

COVID-19 is one of the threats that came out of nowhere and literally shook the entire world. Various prediction techniques have been invented in a very short time. This study also develops a Deep Learning (DL) model which can predict the presence of COVID-19 and pneumonia by analyzing the X-ray images of human lungs. From Kaggle, a collection of X-ray images of the lungs is collected. Then, this dataset is preprocessed using two alternative methods. Some of the techniques include image enhancement and picture resizing. The two deep-learning models are then trained using the preprocessed dataset. A few more examples of DL algorithms include MobileNet and Inception-V3. The best model is then selected by validating the learned deep-learning models. As the epochs count increases during training and validation, the accuracy value for both models increases. The value of the loss increases as the number of epochs decreases. During the fourteenth validation period, the model generates a loss value of 0.32 for the MobileNet technique. During the first few training epochs, accuracy is lower, and by the fifteenth, it is close to 0.9. The Inception-V3 method produces a loss value of 0.1452 at the eleventh validation epoch, which is the lowest value. The greatest accuracy value of 0.9697 is obtained after the twelfth cycle of validation. The model that performs better and has lower loss values is then put through one last test. Inception-V3 is therefore selected as the top method for COVID-19 detection. The Inception-V3 system properly predicted each of the normal images and the COVID-19 images in the final test. Regarding pneumonia, it correctly predicted just one image out of 20 that are so small as to be disregarded. When a patient cannot afford to find a doctor for consultation, the DL model created in this work can be utilized as a preliminary test for COVID-19. By including the model created in this study as a backend processor for a website or software application, the study's findings can be updated. © 2023 IEEE.

A novel adaptive class weight adjustment-based multiclass segmentation error minimization technique for COVID-19 X-ray image analysis

Coronavirus outbreaks during the last couple of years created a huge health disaster for human lives. Diagnosis of COVID-19 infections is, thus, very important for the medical practitioners. For a quick detection, analysis of the COVID-19 chest X-ray images is inevitable. Therefore, there is a strong need for the development of a multiclass segmentation method for the purpose. Earlier techniques used for multiclass segmentation of images are mostly based on entropy measurements. Nonetheless, entropy methods are not efficient when the gray-level distribution of the image is nonuniform. To address this problem, a novel adaptive class weight adjustment-based multiclass segmentation error minimization technique for COVID-19 chest X-ray image analysis is investigated. Theoretical investigations on the first-hand objective functions are presented. The results on both the biclass and multiclass segmentation of medical images are enlightened. The key to our success is the adjustment of the pixel counts of different classes adaptively to reduce the error of segmentation. The COVID-19 chest X-ray images are taken from the Kaggle Radiography database for the experiments. The proposed method is compared with the state-of-the-art methods based on Tsallis, Kapur's, Masi, and Renyi entropy. The well-known segmentation metrics are used for an empirical analysis. Our method achieved a performance increase of around 8.03% in the case of PSNR values, 3.01% for FSIM, and 4.16% for SSIM. The proposed technique would be useful for extracting dots from micro-array images of DNA sequences and multiclass segmentation of the biomedical images such as MRI, CT, and PET.

Identify Type of Lung Infection from Lung Patients X-RAY Image LIVERAGING Computer Vision

This research proposes a computer vision-based solutions to identify whether a patient is covid19/normal/Pneumonia infected with comparable or better state-of-The-Art accuracy. Proposed solution is based on deep learning technique CNN (Convolutional Neural networks) with multiple approaches to cover all open issues. First approach is based on CNN models based on pre-Trained models;second approach is to create CNN model from scratch. Experimentation and evaluation of multiple approaches helps in covering all open points and gaps left unattended in related work performed to solve this problem. Based on the experimentation results of both the approaches and study of related work done by other researchers, Both the approaches are equally effective can be recommended for multi-class classification of lung disease. © 2023 IEEE.

Machine Learning Techniques on X-ray Images for Covid-19 Classification

The Public Health Commission of Hubei Province, China, at the end of 2019reported cases of severe and unknown pneumonia, marked by fever, malaise, dry cough, dyspnea, and respiratory failure, that occurred in the urban area of Wuhan, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). The lung infection, SARS-CoV-2, also known as COVID-19, was caused by a brand-new coronavirus (coronavirus disease 2019). Since then, infections have increased exponentially, and the WHO labeled the outbreak a worldwide emergency at the beginning of March 2020. Infected and asymptomatic individuals who can spread the virus are the main sources of it. The transmission occurs mainly by airthrough the air through the droplets, however indirect transmission is also possible, such as through contact with infected surfaces. It becomes essential to identify viral carriers as soon as possible in order to stop the spread of the disease and reduce morbidity and mortality. Imaging examinations, which are among the specific tests used to make the definite diagnosis, are crucial in the patient's management when COVID-19 is suspected. Numerous papers that use machine learning techniques discuss the use of X-ray chest radiographs as a component that aids in diagnosis and permits disease follow-up. The goal of this work is to supply the scientific community with information on the most widely used Machine Learning algorithms applied to chest X-ray images. © 2022 IEEE.

CX-R Classification Using DCNN Method

The virus SARS-CoV2 was identified in late 2019. Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) is still a threat to global health and safety. Deep Learning (DL) is anticipated to be the most excellent strategy for reliably predicting COVID-19. Convolutional Neural Networks(CNNs) have achieved successful outcomes particularly in categorization and analyzing of medical image data. This work proposes a Deep CNN(DCNN) method for the classification of CX-R(Chest X-Ray) images in prediction of COVID-19. The dataset is preprocessed under many phases with different techniques for creating effective training dataset for the DCNN model to achieve best performance. This is done to deal various complexities like availability of very small sized imbalanced dataset with quality issues. In the first instance, model is trained using the train dataset. Then the model is tested for a separate validate X-ray image dataset and Confusion matrix is displayed. Up to 98.3% Accuracy is obtained, when proposed model was tested using the validate dataset. The Accuracy and Loss graph is plotted for the same. Later, random image prediction is made from prediction dataset which include both COVID and Normal X-rays. Other important performance metrics like F1 score, Recall, Precision for the model is displayed. © 2023 IEEE.

COVID-19 X-RAY IMAGE DETECTION ALGORITHM BASED ON DEEP LEARNING

In order to enhance the ability to diagnose and distinguish COVID-19 from ordinary pneumonia, and to assist medical staff in chest X-ray detection of pneumonia patients, this paper proposes a COVID-19 X-ray image detection algorithm based on deep learning network. First of all, a model of deep learning network is set up based on VGG - 16, and then, the network structure and parameter optimization is adjusted, which makes the network model can be applied to COVID - 19 x ray imaging detection task. In the end, through adjusting the image size of the original data set, the input data meets the requirements of the deep learning network. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm can effectively learn the characteristics of the COVID-19 X-ray image data set and accurately detect three states of COVID-19, common viral pneumonia and non-pneumonia, with a very high detection accuracy of 95.8%. © 2023 SPIE.

Deep learning model for binary classification of COVID-19 based on Chest X-Ray

COVID-19 is a novel virus infecting the upper respiratory tract and lungs. On a scale of the global pandemic, the number of cases and deaths had been increasing each day. Chest X-ray (CXR) images proved effective in monitoring a variety of lung illnesses, including the COVID-19 disease. In recent years, deep learning (DL) has become one of the most significant topics in the computing world and has been extensively applied in several medical applications. In terms of automatic diagnosis of COVID-19, those approaches had proven to be very effective. In this research, a DL technology based on convolution neural networks (CNN) models had been implemented with less number of layers with tuning parameters that will take less time for training for binary classification of COVID-19 based on CXR images. Experimental results had shown that the proposed model for training had achieved an accuracy of 96.68%, Recall of 94.12%, Precision of 93.49%, Specificity of 97.61%, and F1 Score of 93.8%. Those results had shown the high value of utilizing DL for early COVID-19 diagnosis, which can be utilized as a useful tool for COVID-19 screening. © 2023 IEEE.