A Comparative Study of Multiple Neural Network for Detection of Covid 19 on Chest X-Ray

Abstract

Coronavirus disease of 2019 or Covid-19 is a rapidly spreading viral infection that has affected millions all over the world. With its rapid spread and increasing numbers it is becoming over-whelming for the healthcare workers ta rapidly diagnose the condition and contain it from spreading. Hence it has become a necessity to automate the diagnostic procedure. This will improve the work efficiency as well as keep the healthcare workers safe from getting exposed to the virus. Medical image analysis is one of the rising research areas that can tackle this issue with higher accuracy. This paper conducts a comparative study of the use of the recent deep learning models (VGG16, VGG19, DenseNet121, Inception-ResNet-V2, InceptionV3, Resnet50, and Xception) to deal with detection and classification of coronavirus pneumonia from other pneumonia cases. This study uses 7,165 chest X-ray images of Covid-19 (1536) and Pneumonia (5629) patients. Confusion metrics and performance metrics were used to analyze each model. Results show DenseNet121 (99.48% of accuracy) showed better performance when compared with the other models in this study.