COVID-19 Detection Using Chest X-Ray Images Based on Deep Learning

Abstract

Global public health will be severely impacted by the successive waves of emerging COVID-19 disease. Since 2019 people get sick and die in our daily lives placing a massive burden on our health system. One of the crucial factors that has led to the virus's fast spread is a protracted clinical testing gap before discovering of a positive or negative result. A detection system based on deep learning was developed by using chest X-ray(CXR) images of Covid19 patient and healthy people. In this regard the Convolution Neural Network along with other DNNs have been proved to produce good results. To improve the COVID-19 detection accuracy, we developed model using the deep learning(CNN) approach where we observed an accuracy of 96%. We validated the accuracy by using same dataset through a pretrained VGG16 model and an LSTM model which produced excellent reliable results. Our aim of this research is to implement a reliable Deep Learning model to detect presence of Covid-19 in case of limited availability of chest-Xray images.