A Bi-fold Approach to Detect and Classify COVID-19 X-Ray Images and Symptom Auditor.

Abstract

In this paper, we propose an ensemble-based transfer learning method to predict the X-ray image of a COVID-19 affected person. We have used a weighted Euclidean distance average as the parameter to ensemble the transfer learning model viz. ResNet50, VGG16, VGG19, Xception, and InceptionV3. Image augmentations have been carried out using generative adversarial network modelling. We took 784 training images, and 278 test images to validate our model accuracy, and the accuracy of our proposed model was around 98.67% for the training data set and 95.52% for the test data set. Along with that, we also propose a genetic algorithm optimized classification algorithm, to analyze the symptoms of COVID-19 for low, medium, and high-risk patients. The accuracy for the optimized set overshadowed the accuracy of un-optimized classification, and the optimized accuracy is as high as 88.96% for the optimized model. The novelty of this paper lies in the bi-sided model of the paper, i.e., we propose two major models, and one is the genetic algorithm optimized model to analyze the symptoms for a patient of varied risk and the other is to classify the X-ray image using an ensemble-based transfer learning model.