Automated Detection of Covid-19 from X-ray Using SVM

Abstract

Earlier discovery of COVID-19 through precise diagnosis, particularly in instances with no evident symptoms, may reduce the mortality rate of patients. Chest X-ray images are the primary diagnostic tool for this condition. Patients exhibiting COVID-19 symptoms are causing hospitals to become overcrowded, which is becoming a big concern. The contribution that machine learning has made to big data medical research has been very helpful, opening up new ways to diagnose diseases. This study has developed a machine vision method to identify COVID-19 using X-ray images. The preprocessing stage has been applied to resize images and enhance the quality of X-ray images. The Gray-level co-occurrence matrix (GLCM) and Gray-Level Run Length Matrix (GLRLM) are then used to extract features from the X-ray images, and these features are combined to develop the performance classification via training by Support Vector Machine (SVM). The testing phase evaluated the model's performance using generalized data. This developed feature combination utilizing the GLCM and GLRLM algorithms assured a satisfactory evaluation performance based on COVID-19 detection compared to the immediate, single feature with a testing accuracy of 96.65%, a specificity of 99.54%, and a sensitivity of 97.98%.