Coronavirus(COVID-19 or SARS-CoV-2)is a novel viral infection that started in December 2019 and has erupted rapidly in more than 150 countries.The rapid spread of COVID-19 has caused a global health emergency and resu...Coronavirus(COVID-19 or SARS-CoV-2)is a novel viral infection that started in December 2019 and has erupted rapidly in more than 150 countries.The rapid spread of COVID-19 has caused a global health emergency and resulted in governments imposing lock-downs to stop its transmission.There is a signifi-cant increase in the number of patients infected,resulting in a lack of test resources and kits in most countries.To overcome this panicked state of affairs,researchers are looking forward to some effective solutions to overcome this situa-tion:one of the most common and effective methods is to examine the X-radiation(X-rays)and computed tomography(CT)images for detection of Covid-19.How-ever,this method burdens the radiologist to examine each report.Therefore,to reduce the burden on the radiologist,an effective,robust and reliable detection system has been developed,which may assist the radiologist and medical specia-list in effective detecting of COVID.We proposed a deep learning approach that uses readily available chest radio-graphs(chest X-rays)to diagnose COVID-19 cases.The proposed approach applied transfer learning to the Deep Convolutional Neural Network(DCNN)model,Inception-v4,for the automatic detection of COVID-19 infection from chest X-rays images.The dataset used in this study contains 1504 chest X-ray images,504 images of COVID-19 infection,and 1000 normal images obtained from publicly available medical repositories.The results showed that the proposed approach detected COVID-19 infection with an overall accuracy of 99.63%.展开更多
文摘Coronavirus(COVID-19 or SARS-CoV-2)is a novel viral infection that started in December 2019 and has erupted rapidly in more than 150 countries.The rapid spread of COVID-19 has caused a global health emergency and resulted in governments imposing lock-downs to stop its transmission.There is a signifi-cant increase in the number of patients infected,resulting in a lack of test resources and kits in most countries.To overcome this panicked state of affairs,researchers are looking forward to some effective solutions to overcome this situa-tion:one of the most common and effective methods is to examine the X-radiation(X-rays)and computed tomography(CT)images for detection of Covid-19.How-ever,this method burdens the radiologist to examine each report.Therefore,to reduce the burden on the radiologist,an effective,robust and reliable detection system has been developed,which may assist the radiologist and medical specia-list in effective detecting of COVID.We proposed a deep learning approach that uses readily available chest radio-graphs(chest X-rays)to diagnose COVID-19 cases.The proposed approach applied transfer learning to the Deep Convolutional Neural Network(DCNN)model,Inception-v4,for the automatic detection of COVID-19 infection from chest X-rays images.The dataset used in this study contains 1504 chest X-ray images,504 images of COVID-19 infection,and 1000 normal images obtained from publicly available medical repositories.The results showed that the proposed approach detected COVID-19 infection with an overall accuracy of 99.63%.
