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JOURNAL OF AMBIENT INTELLIGENCE AND HUMANIZED COMPUTING
Volume 13, Issue 1, Pages 535-547Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s12652-021-02917-3
Keywords
COVID-19; Convolutinal neural network; Disease prediction; X-ray images; Image processing
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- Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) - Ministry of Education [NRF-2019R1A2C1006159]
- MSIT(Ministry of Science and ICT), Korea, under the ITRC(Information Technology Research Center) support program [IITP-2020-2016-0-00313]
- Brain Korea 21 Plus Program - National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) [22A20130012814]
- Fareed Computing Research Center, Department of Computer Science under Khwaja Fareed University of Engineering and Information Technology(KFUEIT), Punjab, Rahim Yar Khan, Pakistan
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The COVID-19 pandemic has spread widely across the world, prompting the need for a prediction system to aid officials in responding promptly. Medical imaging modalities such as X-ray and CT can assist in early prediction of COVID-19 patients. This study introduces the use of CNN for feature extraction from chest X-ray images for prediction purposes.
COVID-19 pandemic is widely spreading over the entire world and has established significant community spread. Fostering a prediction system can help prepare the officials to respond properly and quickly. Medical imaging like X-ray and computed tomography (CT) can play an important role in the early prediction of COVID-19 patients that will help the timely treatment of the patients. The x-ray images from COVID-19 patients reveal the pneumonia infections that can be used to identify the patients of COVID-19. This study presents the use of Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) that extracts the features from chest x-ray images for the prediction. Three filters are applied to get the edges from the images that help to get the desired segmented target with the infected area of the x-ray. To cope with the smaller size of the training dataset, Keras' Image Data Generator class is used to generate ten thousand augmented images. Classification is performed with two, three, and four classes where the four-class problem has X-ray images from COVID-19, normal people, virus pneumonia, and bacterial pneumonia. Results demonstrate that the proposed CNN model can predict COVID-19 patients with high accuracy. It can help automate screening of the patients for COVID-19 with minimal contact, especially areas where the influx of patients can not be treated by the available medical staff. The performance comparison of the proposed approach with VGG16 and AlexNet shows that classification results for two and four classes are competitive and identical for three-class classification.
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