Covid Detection from CXR Scans using Deep Multi-layered CNN

Abstract

Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Corona virus 2 (SARS-COV-2) also known as COVID-19 has been emerged as a pandemic throughout the globe recently. Therefore, accurate diagnosis of COVID-19 is necessary to fight against this pandemic situation. In this context, chest X-ray (CXR) scans play an important role in the diagnosis of the corona virus. In this paper, an intelligent detection and classification technique of COVID-19 has been proposed to assist doctors in their diagnostic prediction. A deep multi-layered convolution neural network (CNN) has been proposed to detect COVID-19 accurately from CXR scans. The proposed methodology has experimented on a combination of multiple open source publicly available datasets. Experimental results demonstrate the efficacy of the proposed methodology in COVID-19 detection from CXR images.