COVID-19 Prediction Using Chest X-rays Images

Abstract

Understanding covid-19 became very important since large scale vaccination of this was not possible. Chest X-ray is the first imaging technique that plays an important role in the diagnosis of COVID-19 disease. Till now in various fields, great success has been achieved using convolutional neural networks(CNNs) for image recognition and classification. However, due to the limited availability of annotated medical images, the classification of medical images remains the biggest challenge in medical diagnosis. The proposed research work has performed transfer learning using deep learning models like Resnet50 and VGG16 and compare their performance with a newly developed CNN based model. Resnet50 and VGG16 are state of the art models and have been used extensively. A comparative analysis with them will give us an idea of how good our model is. Also, this research work develops a CNN model as it is expected to perform really good on image classification related problems. The proposed research work has used kaggle radiography dataset for training, validating and testing. Moreover, this research work has used another x-ray images dataset which have been created from two different sources. The result shows that the CNN model developed by us outperforms VGG16 and Resnet50 model.