COVID-19 Detection Through Deep Learning Algorithms using Chest X-ray Images

COVID-19 became a pandemic affecting the lives of every human globally by the end of 2019. The disease impaired the lungs of infected patients. Precise prediction and diagnosis of COVID-19 disease are challenging due to its resemblance to viral pneumonia. Using multiple deep learning approaches, the researchers used chest X-ray (CXR) imaging to diagnose COVID-19. The X-ray image dataset from Kaggle is used for the study by selecting the COVID-19 and normal class. InceptionV3, MobileNetV2, VGG19,VGG16 and ResNet50 are the five neural networks used for binary classification of COVID-19. The accuracy of MobileNetV2 surpasses that of the remainder of the model by 93.02%. However, it has a compilation time of 1836 seconds per epoch. Besides, VGG16 has an accuracy of 92.37%, with a compilation time of 603 seconds per epoch. Compared to these models, Inceptonv3, Resnet50 and VGG19 perform with an accuracy score of 86.42%, 68.34% and 91.79%. Applying deep learning techniques to COVID-19 radiological imaging holds great promise for enhancing the accuracy of diagnosis when in comparison to the gold standard RT-PCR test and assisting healthcare professionals in making decisions quickly