Deep Learning based Lung Segmentation Prior for Robust COVID-19 Classification

Abstract

Independent of a person's race, COVID-19 is one of the most contagious diseases in the world. The World Health Organization classified the COVID-19 outbreak as a pandemic after noting its global distribution. By using (i) sample-supported analysis and (ii) image-assisted diagnosis, COVID-19 is examined and verified. Our goal is to use CT scan images to identify the COVID-19 infiltrates. The followings steps are used to carry out the suggested work: (i) Automated segmentation with CNN; (ii) Feature mining; (iii) Principal feature selection with Bat-Algorithm; (iv) Classifier implementation using mobile framework and (v) Performance evaluation. We used a variety of automatic segmentation algorithms in our experiment, and the VGG-16 produced better results. This study is evaluated using benchmark datasets gathered, and SVM based RBF kernal classifier system resulted in superior COVID-19 abnormality identification.