Detecting covid-19 in x-ray images with deep learning

The Corona Virus Disease-2019 (COVID-19) has had a profound impact on the world and thus creates awareness of the need for a fast and accurate diagnosis if a similar outbreak occurs again. Chest X-Ray (CXR) is widely used to detect COVID-19 manually, but it is time-consuming and prone to errors, esp...

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Main Author: Aw, Ethel Miao Han
Format: Final Year Project / Dissertation / Thesis
Published: 2023
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description The Corona Virus Disease-2019 (COVID-19) has had a profound impact on the world and thus creates awareness of the need for a fast and accurate diagnosis if a similar outbreak occurs again. Chest X-Ray (CXR) is widely used to detect COVID-19 manually, but it is time-consuming and prone to errors, especially when the outbreak is severe. Deep Learning (DL) algorithms, i.e., Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), have shown promising results in automatically detecting COVID-19. This project used (i) single CNNs, (ii) incrementally learned CNNs, and (iii) incrementally learned multiple CNNs with majority voting to extract features from CXR images. Then, an XGBoost classifier was used with each of these CNNs to detect COVID-19. A dataset consisting of 22,900 images was used for training (66.67%), validation (16.67%), and testing (16.67%). The results show that using XGBoost classifier with incrementally learned and incrementally learned multiple CNNs gave good and comparable detection accuracy (94.56% and 94.58%). The best performer – incrementally learned multiple CNNs with majority voting used ResNet152, DenseNet201, and VGG16.
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spelling utar-58822023-10-05T12:18:25Z Detecting covid-19 in x-ray images with deep learning Aw, Ethel Miao Han QA76 Computer software The Corona Virus Disease-2019 (COVID-19) has had a profound impact on the world and thus creates awareness of the need for a fast and accurate diagnosis if a similar outbreak occurs again. Chest X-Ray (CXR) is widely used to detect COVID-19 manually, but it is time-consuming and prone to errors, especially when the outbreak is severe. Deep Learning (DL) algorithms, i.e., Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), have shown promising results in automatically detecting COVID-19. This project used (i) single CNNs, (ii) incrementally learned CNNs, and (iii) incrementally learned multiple CNNs with majority voting to extract features from CXR images. Then, an XGBoost classifier was used with each of these CNNs to detect COVID-19. A dataset consisting of 22,900 images was used for training (66.67%), validation (16.67%), and testing (16.67%). The results show that using XGBoost classifier with incrementally learned and incrementally learned multiple CNNs gave good and comparable detection accuracy (94.56% and 94.58%). The best performer – incrementally learned multiple CNNs with majority voting used ResNet152, DenseNet201, and VGG16. 2023 Final Year Project / Dissertation / Thesis NonPeerReviewed application/pdf http://eprints.utar.edu.my/5882/1/SE_1904486_FYP_report_%2D_EthelAwMiaoHan_%2D_AW_MIAO_HAN_ETHEL.pdf Aw, Ethel Miao Han (2023) Detecting covid-19 in x-ray images with deep learning. Final Year Project, UTAR. http://eprints.utar.edu.my/5882/
spellingShingle QA76 Computer software
Aw, Ethel Miao Han
Detecting covid-19 in x-ray images with deep learning
title Detecting covid-19 in x-ray images with deep learning
title_full Detecting covid-19 in x-ray images with deep learning
title_fullStr Detecting covid-19 in x-ray images with deep learning
title_full_unstemmed Detecting covid-19 in x-ray images with deep learning
title_short Detecting covid-19 in x-ray images with deep learning
title_sort detecting covid-19 in x-ray images with deep learning
topic QA76 Computer software
url http://eprints.utar.edu.my/5882/
http://eprints.utar.edu.my/5882/1/SE_1904486_FYP_report_%2D_EthelAwMiaoHan_%2D_AW_MIAO_HAN_ETHEL.pdf