A holistic comparison between deep learning techniques to determine Covid-19 patients utilizing chest X-Ray images

Abstract

Novel coronavirus likewise called COVID-19 began in Wuhan, China in December 2019 and has now outspread over the world. Around 63 millions of people currently got influenced by novel coronavirus and it causes around 1,500,000 deaths. There are just about 600,000 individuals contaminated by COVID-19 in Bangladesh too. As it is an exceptionally new pandemic infection, its diagnosis is challenging for the medical community. In regular cases, it is hard for lower incoming countries to test cases easily. RT-PCR test is the most generally utilized analysis framework for COVID-19 patient detection. However, by utilizing X-ray image based programmed recognition can diminish the expense and testing time. So according to handling this test, it is important to program and effective recognition to forestall transmission to others. In this paper, author attempts to distinguish COVID-19 patients by chest X-ray images. Author executes various pre-trained deep learning models on the dataset such as Base-CNN, ResNet-50, DenseNet-121 and EfficientNet-B4. All the outcomes are compared to determine a suitable model for COVID-19 detection using chest X-ray images. Author also evaluates the results by AUC, where EfficientNet-B4 has 0.997 AUC, ResNet-50 has 0.967 AUC, DenseNet-121 has 0.874 AUC and the Base-CNN model has 0.762 AUC individually. The EfficientNet-B4 has achieved 98.86% accuracy.