NFNets-CNN for Classification of COVID-19 from CT Scan Images

Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by the coronavirus was first found in Wuhan, China in December 2019. It has infected more than 300 million people with more than 5 million of death cases. Until now, the virus is still evolving producing new variants of concern contributes to the increase the infection rate around the world. Thus, various diagnostic procedures are in need to help physicians in diagnosis disease certainly and rapidly. In this study, deep learning approach is used to classify normal and COVID-19 cases from CT scan images. Normalizer Free CNN network (NFNets) model is implemented on the images. Statistical measures such as accuracy, precision, sensitivity (also known as recall) are used to evaluate the performance of the model against the previous studies. Loss of 0.0842, accuracy of 0.7227, precision of 0.9751 and recall of 0.9727 are achieved. Thus, further optimization on the NFNets learning algorithm is required to improve the classification performanceClinical Relevance–Implementation of deep learning technique to automate diagnosis of diseases such as COVID-19 cases from CT scan images will simplify the clinical flow towards providing reliable intelligent aids for patient care.