A GoogLeNet Performance Approach for COVID-19 Detection using Chest X-ray Images

Abstract

Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is a major pandemic disease that has already infected millions of people worldwide and affects many aspects, especially public health. There are many clinical techniques for the diagnosis of this disease, such as RT-PCR and CT-Scan. X-ray image is one of the important techniques for medical diagnosis and easily accessible in classifying suspected cases of COVID-19 infection. In this study, we classified COVID-19 images with four classes: COVID-19, Normal, Lung opacity and Viral pneumonia by compared three models: EfficientNetB0, MobileNet and GoogLeNet for the performance of classification using 1,000 chest X-ray images from Kaggle dataset within scenario of resource limitations. The experiment reveals that GoogLeNet shows superiority over other models that produced the highest accuracy results of 88% and F1 score of 0.88 with a total time of 1 hour and 15 minutes. Along with its confusion matrix that shows model can better classify images than other models.