Lung Xray Images Analysis for COVID-19 Diagnosis

Abstract

Background: The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic began in early 2020. It paralyzed human life all over the world and threatened our security. Thus, proposing some novel and effective approaches to diagnosing COVID-19 infections became paramount. Methods: This article proposes a method for the classification of chest X-ray images based on the transfer learning. We examined also different scenarios of dataset augmentation. Results: The paper reports accuracy=98%, precision=97%, recall=100% and F1-score=98% in the most promising approach. Conclusion: Our research proofs that machine learning can be used in order to support medics in chest X-ray classification and implementing augmentation can lead to improvements in accuracy, precision, recall, and F1-scores.