COVD-19 Detection Platform from X-ray Images using Deep Learning

ABSTRACT

Since the early days of 2020, COVID-19 has tragic effects on the lives of human beings all over the world. To combat this disease, it is important to survey the infected patients in an inexpensive and fast way. One of the most common ways of achieving this is by performing radiological testing using chest X-Rays and patient coughing sounds. In this work, we propose a Convolutional Neural Network-based solution which is able to identify the positive COVID-19 patients using chest X-Ray images. Multiple CNN models have been adopted in our work. Each of these models provides a decision whether the patient is affected with COVID-19 or not. Then, a weighted average selection technique is used to provide the final decision. To test the efficiency of our model we have used publicly available chest X-ray images of COVID positive and negative cases. Our approach provided a classification performance of 88.5%. © Al-Zaytoonah University of Jordan (ZUJ).