COVID-19 classification from X-Ray images using 2D CNN

Abstract

The coronavirus (COVID-19) detection has been a crucial task for researchers, scientists, health experts all across the world and everyone is trying together to find a solution to it. The X-rays images of lungs have become one of the most prevalent and effective procedures used by researchers to monitor COVID-19. Unfortunately, inspecting each case involves multiple radiology experts and time, which is one of the critical tasks in such an outbreak. In this paper, a deep learning approach, 2D convolutional neural networks (CNN) has been used to classify healthy and COVID-19 chest X-ray images. 'Curated Dataset for COVID-19 Posterior-Anterior Chest Radiography Images (X-Rays)' dataset has been used in this study. The major indicator of this study is the accuracy of the proposed model. The classification model, 2D CNN has achieved accuracy and f1-score of 0.96 and 0.95 respectively.