Diagnosis of COVID-19 CT Scans Using Convolutional Neural Networks

Abstract

Machine learning technology, particularly neural networks, provides useful tools for diagnosing diseases. This study focuses on how convolutional neural networks can be implemented to diagnose COVID-19 through the processing of x-ray images. This study demonstrates how the convolutional neural networks DenseNet201, ResNet152, VGG16, and InceptionV3 can aid healthcare providers in the diagnosis of COVID-19. The models returned accuracies of 98.73%, 97.23%, 91.25% and 98.38% respectively. The results from these experiments are compared to previous studies by evaluating F1-score, accuracy, precision and recall. Additionally, the important problems of hyperparameter tuning and data imbalance are explored and addressed. Areas for future research in this area are also suggested.