A Novel Secured Deep Learning Model for COVID Detection Using Chest X-Rays

Abstract

Automatic detection of a medical disease is a need of the hour as it helps doctors diagnose diseases and provide fast medical reports. COVID-19 is a deadly disease for which an automated detection system may be helpful. This study proposes a unique hybrid deep learning model, COVIDet, based on CNN and the speeded-up robust features (SURF) extraction approach to diagnose COVID-19 using chest x-ray images. SURF is utilized in this work to extract features, and the output is then transferred to a 25-layer CNN for detection using the extracted features. This investigation employed 4623 COVID-19 positive X-ray pictures or 8055 total. The suggested hybrid model also contrasts with the study's VGG19, Resnet50, Inception, Xception, and traditional CNN models. The proposed model had a 98.01% accuracy, a 97.03% F1-score, a 98.65% sensitivity, a 99% precision, and a 95.65% specificity. The proposed model can be further improved when more datasets are available and can help doctors to diagnose patients quickly and efficiently. Using chest X-ray pictures, a secured web application is also developed to identify COVID-19. The user sends the application a chest X-ray image, and in return, it determines whether an individual is COVID-19 positive or not, cutting down on testing time. In Covid times, when people are standing in long queues and waiting for their turns, this application would greatly help. The application uses the pre-trained COVIDet model in the backend.