COVID-19 Diagnosis by Multiple-Distance Gray-Level Cooccurrence Matrix and Genetic Algorithm

COVID-19 is extremely contagious and has brought serious harm to the world. Many researchers are actively involved in the study of rapid and reliable diagnostic methods for COVID-19. The study proposes a novel approach to COVID-19 diagnosis. The multiple-distance gray-level co-occurrence matrix (MDGLCM) was used to analyze chest CT images, the GA algorithm was used as an optimizer, and the feedforward neural network was used as a classifier. The results of 10 runs of 10-fold cross-validation show that the proposed method has a sensitivity of 83.38±1.40, a specificity of 81.15±2.08, a precision of 81.59±1.57, an accuracy of 82.26±0.96, an F1-score of 82.46±0.88, an MCC of 64.57±1.90, and an FMI of 82.47±0.88. The proposed MDGLCM-GA-based COVID-19 diagnosis method outperforms the other six state-of-the-art methods.