An Artificial Intelligence Technique for Covid-19 Detection with eXplainability using Lungs X-Ray Images

ABSTRACT

According to the World Health Organization, the coronavirus outbreak poses a daily threat to the global health system. Almost all countries' health resources are insufficient or unequally distributed. There are several issues, such as a lack of health care workers, beds, and intensive care units, to name a few. The key to the country's health systems overcoming this epidemic is to use limited resources at optimal levels. Disease detection is critical to averting an epidemic. The greater the success, the more tightly the covid viral spread may be managed. PCR (Polymerase chain reaction) testing is commonly used to determine whether or not a person has a virus. Deep learning approaches can be used to classify chest X-RAY images in addition to the PCR method. By analyzing multi-layered pictures in one go and establishing manually entered parameters in machine learning, deep learning approaches have become prominent in academic research. This popularity has a favorable impact on the available health datasets. The goal of this study was to detect disease in persons who had x-rays done for suspected COVID-19 (Coronavirus Disease-2019). A bi-nary categorization has been used in most COVID-19 investigations. Chest x-rays of COVID-19 patients, viral pneumonia patients, and healthy patients were obtained from IEEE [17] (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) and Kaggle [18]. Before the classification procedure, the data set was subjected to a data augmentation approach. These three groups have been classified through multiclassclassification deep learning models. We are also debating a taxonomy of recent contributions on the eXplainability of Artificial Intelligence (XAI). © 2022 IEEE.