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Utilization of images in an open source software to detect COVID-19

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Abstract

COVID-19 pandemic has affected the lives of many people across the world. The symptoms of COVID-19 range from being mild to severe causing the patients to suffer from breathlessness, cough, cold, etc. Patients having severe symptoms also have side effects even after they have recovered from it and it may take even months to overcome those side effects. COVID-19 mostly affects our lungs with adverse infection due to which a person is unable to breathe with decorum. This research chapter employs models to differentiate between COVID-19 fever with non-COVID-19 pneumonia from the CT scan images of lungs. The images have been taken from an open source software which consists of 1,252 CT scan images of SARS-CoV-2 positive patients and 1,229 CT scan images of SARS-CoV-2 negative patients. The authors have used six models of Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) and Support Vector Machine (SVM) for detection of COVID-19. The authors conducted comparison between the models of CNN and SVM using different performance measures. The authors observed superior performance of CNN as compared to SVM. The results have been promising which encourages more prediction and classification using deep learning in other fields of medical sciences as well.

Abstract

COVID-19 pandemic has affected the lives of many people across the world. The symptoms of COVID-19 range from being mild to severe causing the patients to suffer from breathlessness, cough, cold, etc. Patients having severe symptoms also have side effects even after they have recovered from it and it may take even months to overcome those side effects. COVID-19 mostly affects our lungs with adverse infection due to which a person is unable to breathe with decorum. This research chapter employs models to differentiate between COVID-19 fever with non-COVID-19 pneumonia from the CT scan images of lungs. The images have been taken from an open source software which consists of 1,252 CT scan images of SARS-CoV-2 positive patients and 1,229 CT scan images of SARS-CoV-2 negative patients. The authors have used six models of Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) and Support Vector Machine (SVM) for detection of COVID-19. The authors conducted comparison between the models of CNN and SVM using different performance measures. The authors observed superior performance of CNN as compared to SVM. The results have been promising which encourages more prediction and classification using deep learning in other fields of medical sciences as well.

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