Detection of COVID-19 Infection in CT and X-ray images using transfer learning approach
Abstract
BACKGROUND: The infection caused by the SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) pandemic is a threat to human lives. An early and accurate diagnosis is necessary for treatment.
OBJECTIVE: The study presents an efficient classification methodology for precise identification of infection caused by COVID-19 using CT and X-ray images.
METHODS: The depthwise separable convolution-based model of MobileNet V2 was exploited for feature extraction. The features of infection were supplied to the SVM classifier for training which produced accurate classification results.
RESULT: The accuracies for CT and X-ray images are 99.42% and 98.54% respectively. The MCC score was used to avoid any mislead caused by accuracy and F1 score as it is more mathematically balanced metric. The MCC scores obtained for CT and X-ray were 0.9852 and 0.9657, respectively. The Youden's index showed a significant improvement of more than 2% for both imaging techniques.
CONCLUSION: The proposed transfer learning-based approach obtained the best results for all evaluation metrics and produced reliable results for the accurate identification of COVID-19 symptoms. This study can help in reducing the time in diagnosis of the infection.
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