Depthwise convolution based pyramid ResNet model for accurate detection of COVID-19 from chest X-Ray images

The global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) causes severe respiratory problems in humans. The Chest X-ray (CXR) imaging technique majorly assists in detecting abnormalities in the chest and lung areas caused by COVID-19. Hence, developing an automatic system for CXR-based COVID-19 detection is vital for disease diagnosis. To accomplish this requirement, an enhanced Residual Network (ResNet) model is proposed in this paper for accurate COVID-19 detection. The proposed model combines the Depthwise Separable Convolutional ResNet and Pyramid dilated module(DSC-ResNet-PDM) for deep feature extraction. Employing the DSC layer minimizes the number of parameters to mitigate the overfitting issue. Further, the pyramid dilated module is used for extracting multi-scale features. The extracted features are finally fed into the optimized Medium Gaussian kernel Support Vector Machine classifier (MGKSVM) for COVID-19 detection. The proposed model attained an accuracy of 99.5%, which is comparatively higher than the standard ResNet50 and ResNet101 models. [ FROM AUTHOR] Copyright of Imaging Science Journal is the property of Taylor & Francis Ltd and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full . (Copyright applies to all s.)