CX-R Classification Using DCNN Method

The virus SARS-CoV2 was identified in late 2019. Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) is still a threat to global health and safety. Deep Learning (DL) is anticipated to be the most excellent strategy for reliably predicting COVID-19. Convolutional Neural Networks(CNNs) have achieved successful outcomes particularly in categorization and analyzing of medical image data. This work proposes a Deep CNN(DCNN) method for the classification of CX-R(Chest X-Ray) images in prediction of COVID-19. The dataset is preprocessed under many phases with different techniques for creating effective training dataset for the DCNN model to achieve best performance. This is done to deal various complexities like availability of very small sized imbalanced dataset with quality issues. In the first instance, model is trained using the train dataset. Then the model is tested for a separate validate X-ray image dataset and Confusion matrix is displayed. Up to 98.3% Accuracy is obtained, when proposed model was tested using the validate dataset. The Accuracy and Loss graph is plotted for the same. Later, random image prediction is made from prediction dataset which include both COVID and Normal X-rays. Other important performance metrics like F1 score, Recall, Precision for the model is displayed.