Journal
MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS
Volume 29, Issue 3, Pages 1683-1697Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00530-021-00833-2
Keywords
Computer vision; COVID-19; Path planning; Transfer learning; Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
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This paper presents the applications of unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) in the medical field, particularly in tackling the COVID-19 outbreak by delivering medication and emergency kits to hospitals. It also proposes a deep convolution neural architecture for detecting COVID-19 cases and compares its performance with state-of-the-art models.
Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAVs) are becoming popular in real-world scenarios due to current advances in sensor technology and hardware platform development. The applications of UAVs in the medical field are broad and may be shared worldwide. With the recent outbreak of COVID-19, fast diagnostic testing has become one of the challenges due to the lack of test kits. UAVs can help in tackling the COVID-19 by delivering medication to the hospital on time. In this paper, to detect the number of COVID-19 cases in a hospital, we propose a deep convolution neural architecture using transfer learning, classifying the patient into three categories as COVID-19 (positive) and normal (negative), and pneumonia based on given X-ray images. The proposed deep-learning architecture is compared with state-of-the-art models. The results show that the proposed model provides an accuracy of 94.92%. Further to offer time-bounded services to COVID-19 patients, we have proposed a scheme for delivering emergency kits to the hospitals in need using an optimal path planning approach for UAVs in the network.
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