Automatic Detection of COVID-19 and Pneumonia from Chest X-Ray using Deep Learning

TL;DR

This paper demonstrates that deep learning, specifically transfer learning with convolutional neural networks, can accurately detect COVID-19 and pneumonia from chest X-ray images, achieving high precision and sensitivity.

Contribution

It applies transfer learning to classify COVID-19, bacterial pneumonia, and normal cases using a large dataset of X-ray images, showing promising diagnostic accuracy.

Findings

Achieved 97.83% accuracy in detection

Sensitivity of 96.81% for COVID-19

Specificity of 98.56% in classification

Abstract

In this study, a dataset of X-ray images from patients with common viral pneumonia, bacterial pneumonia, confirmed Covid-19 disease was utilized for the automatic detection of the Coronavirus disease. The point of the investigation is to assess the exhibition of cutting edge convolutional neural system structures proposed over the ongoing years for clinical picture order. In particular, the system called Transfer Learning was received. With transfer learning, the location of different variations from the norm in little clinical picture datasets is a reachable objective, regularly yielding amazing outcomes. The datasets used in this trial. Firstly, a collection of 24000 X-ray images includes 6000 images for confirmed Covid-19 disease,6000 confirmed common bacterial pneumonia and 6000 images of normal conditions. The information was gathered and expanded from the accessible X-Ray pictures on open clinical stores. The outcomes recommend that Deep Learning with X-Ray imaging may separate noteworthy biological markers identified with the Covid-19 sickness, while the best precision, affectability, and particularity acquired is 97.83%, 96.81%, and 98.56% individually.