Artificial Intelligence Based Detection of COVID-19 Pneumonia Using CT Scan and X-ray Images: A Comparative study

Abstract

According to a new study, a computer program that was trained to see patterns by analyzing thousands of chest X-rays was able to predict with up to 95% accuracy which patients with coronavirus disease (COVID-19) would develop life-threatening complications within four days. In order to quickly identify patients with COVID-19 whose condition is most likely to deteriorate, hospital physicians and radiologists require tools like our program.Unfortunately, we are fighting one of the worst epidemics ever known to mankind called COVID-2019, a coronavirus-derived pathogen. We see ground-glass opacity in the chest X-ray and CT scan images as a result of fibrosis in the lungs when the virus has reached the lungs. The artificial intelligence techniques can be used to identify and quantify the infection because of the significant differences between infected and non-infected X-ray images. A classification model for interpreting chest X-rays and CT scan images is proposed, which may lead to improved COVID-19 diagnosis. Classifying the chest X-rays into three categories, normal, viral pneumonia, and COVID-19, is our method of classification. Additionally, COVID-19 using CT scan images has higher classification accuracy as compared to x-ray images.