Cognitive Computing in diagnosis of Covid-19 from CT scan and radiograph images: A comparative study

Abstract

The dreadful coronavirus has not only shattered the lives of millions of people, but it has also placed enormous strain on the whole healthcare system. In order to isolate positive cases and stop the disease from spreading, early detection of COVID-19 is crucial. Currently, a laboratory test (RT-PCR) on samples collected from the throat and nose is required for the official diagnosis of COVID-19. Specialized tools are needed for the RT-PCR test, which takes at least 24 hours to complete. It may often provide more false negative and false positive results than expected. Therefore, using X-ray and CT scan images of the individual's lung, COVID-19 screening can be used to support the conventional RTPCR methods for an accurate clinical diagnosis. The importance of chest imaging in the emergence of this lung illness has been recognized. Images from the computed tomography (CT) scan and chest X-ray (CXR) can be used to quickly and accurately diagnose COVID-19. However, CT scan pictures have their own drawbacks. In order to assess the effectiveness of chest imaging approaches and demonstrates that CXR as an input may compete with CT scan pictures in the diagnosis of COVID-19 infection using various CNN based models, this article thoroughly covers modern deep learning techniques (CNN). For CXR and CT scan pictures, we have evaluated with ResNet, MobileNet, VGG 16, and EfficientNet. Both chest X-ray (3604 Images) and CT scans (3227 images) from publicly accessible databases have been evaluated, and the experimental outcomes are also contrasted.