Supervised Machine Learning Strategy for detection of covid19 patients

Abstract

The current severe acute respiratory syndrome corona virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) public health catastrophe, both human lives have been lost and the economy has disrupted severely the current scenario. In this paper, we develop a detection module using a series of steps that involves pre-processing, feature extraction and detection of covid-19 patients based on the images collected from the computerized tomography (CT) images. The images are initially pre-processed and then the features are extracted using Gray Level Co-occurrence Matrix (GLCM) and then finally classified using back propagation neural network (BPNN). The simulation is conducted to test the efficacy of the model against various CT image datasets of numerous patients. The results of simulation shows that the proposed method achieves higher detection rate, and reduced mean average percentage error (MAPE) than other existing methodologies.